Books published by publisher The Franklin Library

The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a proud stranger in his native land. He was a young American Indian named Abel, and he lived in two worlds. One was that of his father, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, the ecstasy of the drug called peyote. The other was the world of the twentieth century, goading him into a compulsive cycle of sexual exploits, dissipation, and disgust. Home from a foreign war, he was a man being torn apart, a man descending into hell.

[publisher: Franklin Library / Oxford University Press] Subscriber's Special Edition. Illustrated with a few Monochrome Plates by John Singer Sargent. Handsome Decorative Antique Style Binding with 5 Raised Bands & Gilt Lettering & Decoration to spine. Grey cloth covered boards with Gilt Decration covering front & Back. All Page Edges Gilt. Sewn in Silk Bookmark. Marbled Endpapers. 566 Pages, 9 1/8" Tall.

The Canterbury Tales consists of the stories related by the 29 pilgrims on their way to Saint Thomas Becket’s shrine in Canterbury. Harry Bailey, the Host, had proposed a scheme in the General Prologue whereby each pilgrim was to narrate two tales on the way to Canterbury and two more while returning. In the course of the journey the Canon and his Yeoman join the pilgrims.