Discover this extraordinary and beautiful novel from one of America’s greatest novelists. In rural Illinois two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, until jealously leads to murder and suicide.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

A compelling reflection on wisdom, friendship, and the craft of writing, My Mentor is also the touching story of a young man’s education at the hands of a master, William…

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

Discover William Maxwell’s classic, heart-breaking portrait of an ordinary American family struck by the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic ‘A story of such engaging warmth that it would thaw the heart…

The Outermost Dream brings together essays and reviews by William Maxwell, one of America’s foremost writers and editors. Maxwell chose deliberately to focus on biography, memoir, diaries, and correspondence when…

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists…