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A quiet tour of Appalachia with stories about the Powderday clan, hunting, the Big Sandy River, Crowhorn Lake, and a red hen.

Stuart's first novel is about the contrasts between two Kentucky hill people, hard-working landowner Anse Bushman and happy-go-lucky squatter Boliver Tussie.

She wrote one of the most memorable American short stories of the century, "The Lottery", a chilling tale that shocked the world when it was first published in 1948. To many, this haunting allegory epitomizes the short story form. A deceptively simple, but ultimately tragic tale, the life of its author, Shirley Jackson, echoes in every phrase. A brilliant writer, she was a woman of extreme contradictions. Her extraordinarily complex life is revealed...

The voices of men and women, young and old, blue collar and middle class, salesmen and craftsmen, vets and draft dodgers, Native Americans, New England Yankees, southern gentlewomen, gay and straight, serious and seriocomic, playful and sad.

One of the leading intellectuals of first-wave feminism, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a prolific socialist writer and lecturer. Nearly forgotten in the years following her death, she has been the subject of renewed interest and appreciation in recent decades. Drawing from her previous two-volume edition of The Diaries of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, editor Denise D. Knight here makes available a streamlined version of Gilman's extensive personal...

Answering the question "is a book the same the second time around?" this collection of essays includes contributions from Sven Krkerts, Allegra Goodman, Vivian Gornick, Patricia Hampl, Phillip Lopate, and Luc Sante, among others.

Describes Poe's turbulent life, examines his stories, poems, and essays, and assesses his influence on modern literature.