Amazon.com ReviewIn this lively biography, Edmund Morris returns to the gifted, energetic, and thoroughly controversial man whom the novelist Henry James called "King Theodore." In...
ReviewPraise for the rise of Theodore Roosevelt ?Magnificent . . . a sweeping narrative of the outward man and a shrewd examination of his character...
Review“[Maugham is] a great artist . . . a genius.” –Theodore Dreiser “[Maugham’s] excessively rare gift of story-telling . . . is almost the equal of imagination itself.” –_The Su...
Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Curaçao. War has always been a game to him, and he's eager to glimpse it firsthand--until the freighter he and his mo...
SUMMARY: Ted Chiang's first published story, ""Tower of Babylon,"" won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula A...
SUMMARY: This epic of urban life tells of small- town heroine Carrie Meeber, adrift in an indifferent Chicago. Setting out, she has nothing but a few dollars and an unspoiled beaut...