Helen Keller describes the sensations she experiences and the workings of her imagination, while arguing that the whole spectrum of the senses lies open to her through the medium of language.
A series of excursions into the landscape and mindscape of the traveler afoot, these twelve essays include contributions by Dickens, Beerbohm, Hazlitt, Belloc, Thoreau, and other distinguished authors.
A collection of tales from Norse mythology with sagas that represent the narrative style of the Vikings, in which warrior queens and heroes fight against elves, dwarves, and monsters.
Abel, a poet and political exile, arrives at a savage village in South America where he becomes a naturalist, and there in the forest he falls in love with a mysterious girl.
A novel about the impact of railroads on American ranchers and the methods farmers took to strike back, based on a violent dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880.