The Pole

Renowned for his sparse yet powerful prose, J. ...

Crime and Punishment

So essential is Crime and Punishment (1866) to ...

Paris and Her Cathedrals

Eminent French literature professor R. Howard B...

Leaving Cheyenne

In Leaving Cheyenne (1963), which anticipates L...

White Poverty

When most Americans think of poverty, they imag...

Education and the Good Life

There must be in the world many parents who, li...

All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers

Hailed as one of 'the best novels ever set in A...

Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

'I passed away at two o'clock in the afternoon ...

Love Poems

Even in Germany, the scope and force of Bertolt...

Ordinary People

Hailed as a 'lyrical and glorious writer; a pre...

The Golden Thread

Thomas Mann

A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-...