The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence is a quintessential American classic that transports readers to the opulent drawing rooms and country estates of New York's upper crust in the 1870s.
The Great Gatsby
Nearly a century after its publication, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby remains a quintessential classic of American literature.
Self-Reliance and Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson's First and Second Series of essays, originally published in 1841 and 1844, remain towering achievements of American literature and philosophy nearly two centuries later.