A collection of concentration camp stories originally written in Poland in the 1940s by author Tadeusz Borowski, a member of the Polish People's Army during World War II, and a survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau.
A young American man named Larry Darrell traverses Europe, China, Burma, and India in search of meaning after experiencing the horrors of the First World War.
Follows the narrator through various levels of drunken semi-consciousness. Loosely written around the Irish ballad of Tim Finnegan, who, roused by spilled whiskey, came to at his wake.
The Pacific and Southern Railroad engages in corrupt legislation to rob the farmers of their savings from the wheat crops. A grim harvest of death and disillusionment, and financial and moral ruin is yielded.
Charlie Citrine has failed to live up to his potential, until Humboldt's gift arrives, a mocking gift from the grave that sends Charlie groping towards redemption.
A collection of essays, first published in 1903, in which the author examines the role, influence, and perceptions of African-American men and women in turn-of-the-century society.
