Artisan: 415 books

Great Expectations has become one of the most widely read and influential books ever written.  It reveals the astounding range, subtlety, artistry, and depth of thought of a true literary colossus, Charles Dickens. Published in hundreds of editions and translated into virtually...

Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, regarded by many to be first novel in English, was the first tale of a castaway struggling to survive on a remote desert island. The sole survivor of a shipwreck, He chronicles, in a journal, his daily battle to stay alive, as he fashions shelter and clothes,...

This short but to the point story should allow you a taste of the rest of the series… This will introduce the reader to the Antagonist, Sensenmann, as well as the anonymous Scallywag, The Traveler. The trilogy takes a hard look at the mistakes we are allowing to take place all around us...

CLARENCE MULFORD (1883–1956) was an American author. Mulford spent his creative years writing a vast saga of interlocking novels and stories, most of them dealing with the Bar-20 ranch and the men who called it home, chief among them a certain Hopalong Cassidy. Many of these classic western stories...

"It amused her so much to feel them gradually conquered, dominated by her invincible power as a woman, to become for them the Unique, and Sovereign Idol!" Guy De Maupassant, protégé of Gustave Flaubert, is considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and a master novelist. The...

“Life is a slope. As long as you’re going up you’re looking towards the top and feel happy; but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It’s slow going up but quick going down…” Guy De Maupassant, a protégé of Gustave Flaubert,...

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963) One of the most original and widely imitated poets of the twentieth century, William Carlos Williams wrote verse firmly rooted in the details of everyday life. A practicing physician for more than 40 years, Williams worked in the idiom of modern American speech,...

“This vague, hopeless love I had conceived for an actress, this love which swept me up every evening when the curtain rose, only to release me when sleep finally descended, had its seed in the memory of Adrienne, a night-flower blooming in the pale effulgence of the moon, a phantom fair and rosy...

“Is mother right? Am I being extravagant? Just for a moment she had another glimpse of that poor woman and those little children, and the body being carried into the house. But it all seemed blurred, unreal, like a picture in the newspaper…” In The Garden Party, an upper middle-class...

EZRA POUND (1885–1972) has been called a poetic visionary, and “the inventor of modern English poetry.” Pound's lyric genius, superb technique, and profound insights ensured his reputation as one of the few men who throughout the centuries have kept poetry alive, ever growing and relevant....

This celebrated 21st century digital edition of The Prairie Trilogy edited by Philip Dossick includes the three novels that comprise Willa Cather’s classic collection. O Pioneers! Song of the Lark My Antonia O PIONEERS! is the story of the life and loves of Alexandra...

Willa Cather – Selected Short Stories is a handsome collection of some of her finest short works. Well-crafted tales, her stories are often about people’s secret desires, unrequited love; about poverty and how a daily grind wears away every noble impulse in a person; and how people want...

Set in the 1890s in Moonstone, a fictional town located in Colorado, The Song of the Lark is the self-portrait of an artist in the making. The story revolves around an ambitious young heroine, Thea Kronborg, who leaves her hometown to go to the big city to fulfill her dream of becoming a pianist....

In the lives of mortals, the best days are the first to flee… My Antonia* set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, is Willa Cather’s rich and soulful tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on untamed prairie land. She represents immigrant...