When Henry Roth published Call It Sleep, his first novel, in 1934, it was greeted with critical acclaim. But in that dark Depression year, books were hard to sell, and the novel quickly dropped out of sight, as did its twenty-eight-year-old...
"A breakthrough in prose and poetical writing…This book should be on all readers' and writers' desks and in their minds." — Maya Angelou
First published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane is an innovative literary work-part drama, part poetry,...
This novel takes place in the eponymous Cannery Row, a place made up of ’junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses’. Although there...
"Capitães da Areia" é um romance de autoria do escritor brasileiro Jorge Amado, publicado em 1937. O livro retrata a vida de um grupo de menores abandonados, chamados de "Capitães da Areia", ambientado na cidade de Salvador dos anos...
Un honnête garçon qui sert comme brigadier dans un régiment de dragons à Séville tombe amoureux de la gitane Carmen. Celle-ci lui ayant préféré un certain Lucas, rencontré lors d'un combat de taureau, il...