With no idea of the horrors of war, young Henry Fleming has romantic notions of the hero he will be. Those illusions are destroyed when he enters his first battle. Now he must make the most difficult
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was perhaps the most admired American writer of the 19th century, and his works were extraordinary bestsellers at home and abroad. Longfellow's immense popularity helped rai
When one of mystery writer Antonia Darcy's admiring readers, Bee Ardleigh, becomes over friendly, Antonia finds it just a bit of a bore, but when she and husband Major Hugh Payne are persuaded to visi
Born of Cather's early ties to the prairie and the immigrants who tamed it,O Pioneers! established a new territory in American literature when it was published in 1913.When Alexandra Bergson, the daug
Born in Maine in 1892 and raised by a divorced mother who recognized and encouraged her talents? Edna St. Vincent Millay attended Vassar under the sponsorship of a benefactor who had read her poem Ren
