Books published by publisher CAEDMON

"I recon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it.I been here before." - Huck FinnThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the unforgettable sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Begun in 1876, it was published in 1884. Narrated by Huck himself - in flight from his drunken, blackguard father - it is the story of his adventures on the Mississippi River with the runaway slave Jim. Along the way, Huck is involved in a family blood feud, a murder, a political lynching, and in the shenanigans of two rogues: the "Duke of Bridgewater," an itinerant printer and fraud, and the "Dauphin," an actor, evangelist, and temperance faker.A keen and realistic portrayal of regional character and frontier experience, Huckleberry Finn is a delightful, classic story, and one of America's greatest works of literature.

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.

A timeless collection of short stories about an imaginary small town, unified by the presence of Winesburg Eagle reporter George Willard, Winesburg, Ohio is, as H.L. Mencken said upon it's publication in 1919, "...vivid, so full of insight, so shiningly life-like and glowing, that the book is lifted into a category all its own."Presented here by the leading lights of modern American letters, Winesburg, Ohio reverberates with the passion of both Sherwood Anderson and the many writers whom he has influenced.