Plainsongs'  title suggests not only its location on the Great Plains, but also its preference for the living language, whether in free or formal ...

The only problem that clouds Lucien and Silvia Wade's calm, comfortable life is that Lucien wants children and Silvia does not. When the wild Polydore ...

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, ...

The narrator of one of the stories in Mary Wilkins Freeman's 1903 collection Six Trees asks, "A man may cut down a tree and plant one. Who knows what ...

When poor orphan Pollyanna is sent to live with her wealthy Aunt Polly, she shocks the small town of Beldingsville, Vermont, with sunshine and optimism. ...

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 ...

Before it was a Pulitzer Prize-winning play and a successful silent film, Zona Gale's Miss Lulu Bett was the best-selling novel of 1920. A departure ...

Ring W. Lardner's 1921 satirical collection The Big Town follows nouveau riche Midwestern couple Tom and Ella Finch from their hometown of South Bend ...

Disillusioned by the urban labor strikes of early 20th-century Oakland, California, Billy and Saxon Roberts flee the city to begin anew as ranchers in ...

Plainsongs’s  title suggests not only its location on the Great Plains, but also its preference for the living language, whether in free or ...