Results for "Kazin, Alfred"

First published in 1910, Howards End is the novel that earned E. M. Forster recognition as a major writer. Soon to be a limited series on Starz.At its heart lie two families—the wealthy and business-minded Wilcoxes and the cultured and idealistic Schlegels. When the beautiful and independent Helen S... Read More about Howards End: Introduction by Alfred Kazin (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

“When a girl leaves home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.” With Sister Carrie, first published in 1900, Theodore Dreiser transformed the conventional “... Read More about Sister Carrie

Alfred Kazin, one of the central figures of intellectual life for three decades in the middle of the 20th century, tells his own story and with it a history of contemporary American letters.... Read More about New York Jew

  Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presenta... Read More about Uncle Tom's Cabin: Introduction by Alfred Kazin (Everyman's Library Classics Series)

When Henry Roth published his debut novel Call It Sleep in 1934, it was greeted with considerable critical acclaim though, in those troubled times, lackluster sales. Only with its paperback publication thirty years later did this novel receive the recognition it deserves—--and still enjoys. Having s... Read More about Call It Sleep: A Novel

Gathers lyric poems, satire, and essays about the German countryside and literature, by the nineteenth-century romantic poet.... Read More about Poetry and Prose: Heinrich Heine (German Library)