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Short Story Masterpieces
edited by Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine
This anthology of 35 British and American short stories from the first half of the 20th century includes Stephen Crane, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, and Eudora Welty. |
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Snow Falling on Cedars
by David Guterson
When a white fisherman is found suspiciously drowned off San Piedro Island, the island’s collective memory of World War II haunts the ensuing trial of Kabuo Miyamoto. |
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Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
In his Eastern quest for self-knowledge, Siddhartha embarks on a path that leads from restlessness, greed, lust, and despair to the emergence of life, peace, and, finally, wisdom. |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
Arguably Hurston’s best-known work of fiction, this is the story of an independent and articulate African American woman on a search for her own identity. |
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
In this absurdist classic, Vonnegut fashions his experiences as an American prisoner of war who witnessed the firebombing of Dresden during World War II into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority. |
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These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
by Nancy E. Turner
Inspired by her own family memoirs, Turner has created pioneer Sarah Prine’s dramatic tale of survival in the Arizona Territory of the late 1880s. |
