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“Journey in the Dark” by Martin Flavin just might be the quintessential American novel. It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1944. It also won the Harper Prize in
I’m a fan of anthologies and story collections, especially when those collections feature a variety of authors, but I also enjoy story collections that contain only the works of a
"I could only conclude that excessive vanity, like drunkenness, hardens the heart,enslaves the faculties, and perverts the feelings, and that dogs are not the only creatures which, when gorged to the throat, will yet gloat over what they cannot devour." - Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey The (to us) least well known Brontë sister (that most tragic family…
“The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin” is a unique book written by and about a truly singular person in American history. The man was a marvel of ingenuity, wisdom and determination.