Quick view As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner As I Lay Dying is the harrowing, darkly comic tale of the Bundren family's trek across Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother, as told by each of the family members--including Addie herself. View Details
Quick view The Crucible by Arthur Miller Based on historical people and real events, Miller's play uses the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence unleashed by the rumors of witchcraft as a powerful parable about McCarthyism. View Details
Quick view Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison An African-American man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility. View Details
Quick view Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner At once an engrossing murder mystery and an unflinching potrait of racila injustice in the Reconstruction South, Intruder in the Dust stands out as a true classic of Southern literature. View Details
Quick view The Iliad by Home In this widely acclaimed verse translation of Homer's great epic, Robert Fagles combines the skills of poet and scholar. He brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic work, but maintains the drive and metric music of Homer's... View Details
Quick view Kindred by Octavia Butler Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and... View Details