historical fiction

Presents a collection of essays that examine the work of contemporary American writer E. L. Doctorow.

Eighteen-year-old Artemisia Gentileschi, having ruined her reputation by making a public accusation of rape against her art teacher, enters into an arranged marriage in post-Renaissance Italy and moves with her husband to Florence where her talent blossoms, bringing fame and conflict into her life.

Politician Roscoe Conway has decided to severe his political ties and step out of the limelight, but the harder he tries to live a quiet life, the more he finds himself being confronted by secrets from his past.

Discusses Toni Morrison's "Beloved, " offering biographical information about the author, text analysis, character summaries, and a selection of critical extracts.

A fictionalized account of the life of Friedrich von Hardenberg, a late-eighteenth-century German philosophy student, who later becomes the Romantic poet Novalis, focusing on his infatuation with twelve-year-old Sophie von Kuhn.

Presents the final novel by author Ralph Ellison, telling the story of Adam Sunraider, a race-baiting senator from New England who, upon being shot while on the Senate floor, calls for Reverend Alonzo Hickman, the African-American Baptist minister who cared for the orphaned Sunraider when he was a child known as Bliss.

A story of the intertwined fates of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines near a North Dakota reservation from 1934 to 1984.

The third of a three-part saga, following the lives of John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, cowboys and friends in 1952 who must find a way to cope with their changing world.

Plain, independent Lidie Harkness, impatient with the restrictions placed on women in mid-nineteenth century Illinois, jumps at the chance to marry New England abolitionist Thomas Newton and travel with him to the Kansas Territory where they embark on a dangerous quest to stop the spread of slavery.

A Civil War novel which traces the lives, passions, and careers of military leaders Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Joshua Chamberlain, and Robert E. Lee, who meet on the same battlefield for the first time at Fredericksburg, where they experience the battle from four very different points of view.