William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life
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General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman...
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
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Instantly heralded for its "masterful" and "thrilling" portrayal (Boston Globe), Shirley Jackson...
Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
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James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Darwin's youth and travels on the HMS Beagle to Down...
Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
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Disco thumps back to life in this pulsating look at the culture and politics that gave rise to the...
Darwin
Charles Darwin and Philip Appleman
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The impact of Charles Darwin's work on Western civilization has been broad and deep. As much as...
The Sound and the Fury: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism
William Faulkner and Michael Gorra
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William Faulkner's provocative and enigmatic 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, is widely...
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Elizabeth Ammons
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In the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any book in the world except the...
Cane
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Originally published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane remains an innovative literary work-part drama,...