Goodbye to All That

Look Inside the Book First published in 1929, Goodbye to All That is Robert Graves’s indelible reckoning with the First World War […]

My Summer in a Garden

Previous slide Next slide My Summer in a Garden by Charles Dudley Warner is a timeless classic of American garden and nature […]

What Is Man? and Other Essays

Previous slide Next slide What Is Man? and Other Essays showcases Twain at his most insightful and provocative. Brimming with philosophical candor […]

Travels in Alaska

Previous slide Next slide Travels in Alaska chronicles John Muir’s adventures in that astonishing and majestic landscape. Muir first journeyed to Alaska […]

The Outermost House

Long hailed as a classic of American nature writing, Henry Beston’s eloquent chronicle of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod […]

Elizabeth and Her German Garden

Previous slide Next slide Elizabeth von Arnim’s vivid, humorous, and subtly subversive Elizabeth and her German Garden is one of the great […]

Far Away and Long Ago

Previous slide Next slide Far Away and Long Ago is a moving memoir of a vanished world, written by legendary naturalist and […]

A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

Previous Next A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, John Muir’s captivating and lyrical travelogue, chronicles his remarkable 1867 journey from Indiana through […]

Meditations

Previous Next Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is one of the greatest philosophical works of all time. A collection of personal reflections written […]

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

Frederick Douglass, the renowned nineteenth-century orator, editor, publisher, and statesman, was born into slavery in Maryland and escaped in 1838. He quickly […]