The Longest Journey (1907) is a novel by English author E.M. Forster. Despite its critical success, the novel was a commercial failure for Forster, but has since grown in reputation and readership to help cement his reception as one of twentieth century England's most talented writers. Rickie Elliot enters Cambridge as a young man, exploring his interests in poetry and art and joining a circle of intellectuals centered around, a philosopher named...

H. M. Tomlinson was a war correspondent for the British army in France during World War I, an experience that made him fervently anti-war. Waiting for Daylight, published shortly after World War I, is a memorable and penetrating collection of essays about his experiences during the war and his reactions to modern warfare.

This novel paints the portrait of a woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them and whose transformations embody the decline and coarsening of the American frontier. The novel is written in the third person using the perspective of character Niel Herbert, a young man who grows up in Sweet Water and witnesses the decline of Mrs. Forrester for whom he feels very deeply. The author portrays the moral disintegration of that lovable...

Panorama of Norwegian life in the first half of the 14th century and the tumultous life of a woman, traces Kristin's life from childhood to death.

The mind of the South; its origin and development in the old south, its curious career in the middle yearsand its survival, its modifications and its operationin our time.

Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast.

After climbing through the mirror in her room, Alice enters a world similar to a chess board where she experiences many curious adventures with its fantastic inhabitants.