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The Triumph of the Egg , Sherwood Andersons 1921 collection of poems and short stories, focuses on the alienating and disruptive moments of American small-town life. Similar in tone to its more...

Lizzie Holmess 1893 novel Hagar Lyndon was way ahead of its time. Radical, even. The novel tells the story of a young woman who refuses to conform to 19th c. gender norms. After observing the e...

Ernst Weiman is a resourceful German immigrant who lives the American Dream by becoming a successful businessman and leader in the fictional town of Fairbanks, Michigan. His good fortune comes to a su...

Bartley Alexander is slowly being buried alive, unable to bridge the gap between his successful life and the freedom he thought success would bring. An important career, a caring wife, a lovely home&m...

Katherine Cope is twenty-seven years old and is striking out on her own. The year is 1914 and she is a New Woman, a woman of modern ideas and modern times. Told through the eyes of her mother, Lucy Co...

Hal Warner may be a rich kid, but even he can see that the working conditions in the Colorado coal mines are inhumane. Inspired by real-life events, King Coal follows Hals undercover exploratio...

John Herrmanns What Happens was a little before its time. Originally published in France in 1926 and seized by U.S. Customs for violating the 1922 Tariff Act, which banned the importing of obsc...

Set in a small college town in California, Mary Austins 1908 novel Santa Lucia explores the limited options available to women in early 20th century America. Focusing on the married lives of th...