As their seemingly casual relationship unfolds, Hayes reveals the falsity of the American Dream ... his most famous novel, ...

It took the author 13 years to write her novel. Four years after it published, it was a Hollywood hit starring James Dean.

Set in the antebellum South, Mark Twain’s classic tale of two runaways ... regarded as one of Twain’s finest novels (and one of the greatest American novels of all time), challenges ...

to its critical and popular elevation from the standing of an important 'period piece' to that of an undisputed classic of American literature. Of the five essays that follow, one traces this revival ...

By pure coincidence, two American operas based on classic Italian novels had their premieres about five weeks apart. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis premiered in New York on January 27 ...