Rejecting his era's genteel hypocrisy about miscegenation, lynching, and "passing," Charles W. Chesnutt broke new ground in American literature with his innovative explorations of racial identity and...
In one volume: The Haunting of Hill House, The Lottery, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and much more"The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable," writes A. M. Homes. "It is a place...
For the first time in a deluxe hardcover edition, three eerily powerful novels by a midcentury master of social satire and psychological portraitureJean Stafford (1915-1979) made a bold entrance onto...