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  • It Can't Happen Here

    by Sinclair Lewis, Gary Scharnhorst ...
    “The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal.”—SalonIt Can’t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.Written during the Great Depression, when the country was ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Wayward Bus

    by John Steinbeck, Gary Scharnhorst ...
    A Penguin ClassicIn his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous success, The Grapes of Wrath*,* Steinbeck’s vision comes wonderfully to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California’s back roads, transporting the lost and the lonely, the good and the greedy, the stupid and the scheming, the beautiful and the vicious away from their shattered ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings

    by Bret Harte, Gary Scharnhorst ...
    Bret Harte was at the forefront of western American literature, paving the way for other writers, including Mark Twain. For the first time in one volume, The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings brings together not only Harte's best-known pieces including "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," but also the original transcription of the famous 1882 essay "The Argonauts of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Mark Twain and the Critics, 1891-1910

    Selected Notices of the Late Writings

    by Gary Scharnhorst, Leslie Diane Myrick ...
    Over the last twenty years of his life, Mark Twain was a controversial figure. He evolved from the "clown prince of American literature" into a biting social critic and political observer. While some pundits hailed him as a satirist equal to Cervantes and Jonathan Swift, others excoriated him as a "degenerate literary freak" who wielded a "scurrilous and venomous pen."This volume traces the ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Literary Eats

    Emily Dickinson's Gingerbread, Ernest Hemingway's Picadillo, Eudora Welty's Onion Pie and 400+ Other Recipes from American Authors Past and Present

    by Gary Scharnhorst ...
    This is a comprehensive collection of authentic recipes, some 500 in all, for drinks and dishes that more than 150 American authors since the late 18th century are known to have enjoyed. The book should appeal to amateur chefs and so-called "foodies" who may want to test some of the recipes in their kitchens; to American literature instructors and scholars who may use it as a teaching tool; and ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories

    by Stephen Crane, Gary Scharnhorst ...
    Henry Fleming, a raw Union Army recruit in the American Civil War, is anxious to confirm his patriotism and manhood—to earn his “badge of courage.” But his dreams of heroism and invulnerability are soon shattered when he flees the Confederate enemy during his baptism of fire and then witnesses the horrible death of a friend. Plunged unwillingly into the nightmare of war, Fleming survives by sheer ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Life of Mark Twain

    The Early Years, 1835-1871

    by Gary Scharnhorst ...
    Series Book 1 - Mark Twain and His Circle
    This book begins the first multi-volume biography of Samuel Clemens to appear in over a century. In the succeeding years, Clemens biographers have either tailored their narratives to fit the parameters of a single volume or focused on a particular period or aspect of Clemens’s life, because the whole of that epic life cannot be compressed into a single volume. In The Life of Mark Twain, Gary ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Owen Wister and the West

    by Gary Scharnhorst ...
    Series series The Oklahoma Western Biographies
    Westerns are rarely only about the West. From the works of James Fenimore Cooper to Gary Cooper, stories set in the American West have served as vehicles for topical commentary. More than any other pioneer of the genre, Owen Wister turned the Western into a form of social and political critique, touching on such issues as race, the environment, women’s rights, and immigration. In Owen Wister and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Life of Mark Twain

    The Final Years, 1891–1910

    by Gary Scharnhorst ...
    Series Book 3 - Mark Twain and His Circle
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2023In the final volume of his three-volume biography, Gary Scharnhorst chronicles the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens from his family’s extended trip to Europe in 1891 to his death in 1910 at age 74. During these years Clemens grapples with bankruptcy, returns to the lecture circuit, and endures the loss of two daughters and his wife. It is also during this ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Pasó por Aquí and The Desire of the Moth

    Two Classic Novels of New Mexico

    by Eugene Manlove Rhodes ...
    Eugene Manlove Rhodes, who coined New Mexico’s official state nickname “the Land of Enchantment,” was a superlative writer of fiction in the Southwest during the early twentieth century. This new annotated edition of two of his best novels provides the ideal introduction to this unjustly neglected writer.A real-life cowboy, rancher, miner, and army scout for twenty-five years before launching his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Life of Mark Twain

    The Middle Years, 1871–1891

    by Gary Scharnhorst ...
    Series Book 2 - Mark Twain and His Circle
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 20****20The second volume of Gary Scharnhorst’s three-volume biography chronicles the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens between his move with his family from Buffalo to Elmira (and then Hartford) in spring 1871 and their departure from Hartford for Europe in mid-1891.During this time he wrote and published some of his best-known works, including *Roughing It, ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Mark Twain Remembered

    An Anecdotal Biography

    Edited by Gary Scharnhorst ...
    Mark Twain's life as told by more than 200 contemporaries including Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles Darwin, and many more.A master storyteller, Mark Twain inspired his friends, family, fellow authors, and others to reminisce about him at every stage of his life and everywhere he lived. In Mark Twain Remembered: An Anecdotal Biography, Gary Scharnhorst transcribes and annotates over two ... Read more

    $21.99 USD