BURNING DAYLIGHT by Jack London
Strike gold in the Klondike and lose it on the stock market. Follow the most dynamic, driven, and doomed capitalist […]
Strike gold in the Klondike and lose it on the stock market. Follow the most dynamic, driven, and doomed capitalist […]
Enter the brownstone boarding house on Twenty-Third Street and meet two women waiting for a life that never arrives. Read
Enter the high-gabled house on Meng Street in Lübeck and watch a family rise, flourish, and decline across four generations.
Enter the world of provincial English commerce and meet the most memorably punished miser in Victorian literature. Read George Eliot’s
Stand at the threshold of adolescence with Nikolai Irtenev, and watch the certainties of childhood dissolve into the confusions of
Follow the two copyists through the second half of their quest for universal understanding, deeper into error and closer to
Meet the two most ambitious, disastrous, and heartbreakingly foolish autodidacts in all of literature. Read Gustave Flaubert’s unfinished masterpiece completely
Ascend to the higher plane of consciousness with the most audacious, unclassifiable, and utterly fascinating visionary of early twentieth-century America.
Stand in the Moscow square as the bells ring for a new tsar, and watch a man confront the weight
Open the lost book of the Bible, quoted by Joshua and Samuel, sung by David, and lost for two thousand