With this collection of letters, presented for the first time as a Scribner Classic, a new Hemingway emerges.

The first edition ever published of Trimalchio, original version of Fitzgerald's classic The Great Gatsby.

The daughter of J.D. Salinger offers a portrait of life with her reclusive father, providing a study of her complex family relationships.

This is an archetypal American story of escape from home and family which traces a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage.

Unlike the film versions, the novel is a rich source of American Victorian concerns and tensions, as well as being one of the most entertaining of its genre.

This edition features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new preface that provides a fresh assessment of how Black women's lives have changed-or not-since the book was first published.

An inmate of a mental institution tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world.

The twenty-first century has seen interest in and scholarship about Vonnegut's works grow even stronger, and this is the first book to examine in full the life of one of the most influential iconoclasts of his time.

This evocative, sympathetic biography illuminates the events of Hemingway's vigorous life, his experiences in two World Wars and the Spanish Civil War, and his sudden fame and slow decline. 29 photos. 7 maps.

This edition firmly locates Uncle Tom's Cabin within the context of African-American writing, and considers issues of race and the role of women.