"Willa Cather's novel of one man's life as he encounters the harsh landscape of the New Mexico desert and the people who inhabit it, with an introduction by National Book Award finalist Kali Fajardo-Anstine"-- Provided by publisher.

In these four plays, Jean-Paul Sartre, the great existentialist novelist and philosopher, displays his mastery of the drama. No Exit is an unforgettable portrayal of hell. The Flies is a modern reworking of the Electra-Orestes story. Dirty Hands is about a young intellectual torn between theory and praxis. The Respectful Prostitute is a scathing attack on American racism. 4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes...

In the course of his wanderings from a Southern Negro college to New York's Harlem, an American black man becomes involved in a series of adventures. Introduction explains circumstances under which the book was written. Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a black man's journey through contemporary America. Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity--powerfully imagined and written with a savage,...

This epic novel follows the turbulent fotunes of the Cossack people through peace, war, and revolution -- among them the proud and rebellious Gregor Melekhov, who struggles to be with the woman he loves as his country is torn apart. Borne of the author's own early life in the lands of the Cossacks by the River Don, this is a searing portrait of a nation swept up in conflict, with all the tragic choices it brings.

Three unlikely thieves, or reivers, 11-year-old Lucius Priest and two of his family's retainers, set out from Mississippi for Memphis in 1905 in a stolen motorcar.

Presents over fifty poems by twentieth-century poet Robinson Jeffers, selected from major works published between 1924 and 1963.