This Library of America volume of Jack London’s best-known work is filled with thrilling action, an intuitive feeling for animal life, and a sense of justice that often works itself out through violence. London enjoyed phenomenal popularity in his own time (which included the depressions of the 1890s and the beginnings of World War One), and he remains one of the most widely read of all American writers.

Here are some of the most powerful and enchanting works by this renowned Southern author, contrasting grace and old-world charm with a new generation

In nineteenth-century America, poetry was, part of everyday life, as familiar as a hymn, a love song, a patriotic exhortation. American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century reveals the vigor and diversity of a tradition embracing solitary visionaries and congenial storytellers, humorists and dissidents, songwriters and philosophers. These two volumes reassess America's poetic legacy with a comprehensive sweep that no previous anthology has attempted. This...

A collection of five crime novels written during the 1950s. The killer inside me / Jim Thompson, The talented Mr. Ripley / Patricia Highsmith, Pick-up / Charles Willeford, Down there / David Goodis, The real cool killers / Chester Himes.