A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self, internal passion and external convention, gives us the...
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is a classic masterpiece of religious satire that entertains readers with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father...
A London lawyer investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the misanthropic Edward Hyde. The work is known for its vivid portrayal that within the same person there is both an apparently good and an evil...
The Valley of the Moon is a novel by American writer Jack London. The valley where it is set is located north of the San Francisco Bay Area in Sonoma County, California where Jack London was a resident; he built his ranch in Glen Ellen. The story...
Three stories across three centuries in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. Nora May French, a young poet, spirals into the 1907 Bohemian Club in pursuit of art, freedom, and egalitarianism. Angela Steel, the last surviving San Francisco City...
One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of...