"Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me." With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. But the child she clutches is not his, and Hester wears a scarlet "A" upon her breast, the sign of adultery visible to all. Under an assumed name, her husband begins his vindictive search for her lover, determined to expose what Hester is equally determined to protect. Defiant and proud, Hester witnesses the degradation of...

The People of the Abyss - The Road - The Iron Heel - Martin Eden - John Barleycorn

Tells the stories of a saint-like slave, a religious woman's courtship in eighteenth-century Newport, R.I., and life in a small Massachusetts town

This Library of America volume brings together the first four works of Washington Irving, America’s first internationally recognized man of letters. Irving’s early writings earned the admiration of literary figures like Hawthorne, Poe, Coleridge, Byron, Scott, and Dickens. He was widely traveled, a connoisseur of the theater both at home and abroad, and an intimate of royalty and high society in Europe and America. Irving’s career as a writer...

Five novels dramatize the interaction of Americans with more sophisticated Europeans.

Contains a comprehensive anthology of Stephen Crane's novels, short stories, journalism, war correspondence, and two books of poetry and includes "The Red Badge of Courage," "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets," and short stories such as "The Open Boat," "The Blue Hotel," and "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky."

Presents three novels written by Henry James in the middle part of his career, each featuring a female lead character who is faced with competing choices.