A reimagining of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” shines a different light on Mark Twain's classic, revealing new facets of the character of Jim. 02 WIND AND TRUTH by Brandon Sanderson The fifth book in the Stormlight ...
The New York Times Book of the Dead features more than 300 obituaries in the book—all hand-selected by veteran Times obituary editor William McDonald—including tributes to Abraham Lincoln, Jesse James, David Bowie, and Harper Lee, PLUS exclusive online access to thousands more. This website ...
Paul Lynch won the £50,000 prize in 2023 for Prophet Song, a darkly prophetic novel set in a near-future Ireland that the New York Times described as ‘an unsettling dystopian parable.’ In it, a biologist and mother of four must cope alone after the secret police take her husband ...
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May 28, 1925 - SHAFT TO TOM SAWYER AND HUCKLEBERRY FINN June 1, 1925 - 21 FIFTH AVENUE August 16, 1925 - MARK TWAIN'S PRINTING PRESS December 1, 1925 - Mark Twain's Secretary on the Air. December 20, 1925 - Mark Twain Was a Hero To His Maidservant January 23, 1926 - TWAIN PLAY...
Available May 27:Barkskins(2020): Based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx, “Barkskins” follows a disparate group of outcasts and dreamers battling to escape their pasts while navigating the brutal frontier hardships, competing interests and tangled loyalt...
Listed on The New York Times Children’s Best Seller List for over 100 weeks, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is the story of a young girl in the Nazi camps set during World War II. So, if you love history and wish to learn how the life was during Adolf Hitler’s time, read this...
New York: Dyckman Farmhouse, New York City Before New York City morphed into a modern metropolis it is today, it was knitted together by family farms, many of which were established by descendants of 17th-century Dutch immigrants.Built in the 1780s, the brick, timber, and fieldstone house ...
Handwritten manuscript of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Buffalo Public Library, AMAZING FIND: Handwritten Huck Finn Manuscriptat the Buffalo Public Library Stand within inches of a portion of Twain’s handwritten Huck Finn story, discovered in 1990 in an old trunk that hadn’t been open sinc...
— Julian Lucas, The New York Times Keene’s story collection is truly radical—in its politics, in its stylistic restlessness, in its rethinking of the myths we tell ourselves about race and sexuality in the history of the Americas. — Anthony Domestico, The Boston Globe In Counternarrati...