A romantic adventure set in the Scottish borderlands and Northern England in 1715. The colorful outlaw and rebel Rob Roy MacGregor steps in to defend Scotland, the underdog and true love.
Both Gene Fowler and H. Allen Smith were journalists who went everywhere, knew everybody and wrote about all of it. This is Smith’s laugh-out-loud biography of his friend.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club is the first and the most Dickensian of Dickens’s novels.
Neal Stephenson’s masterpiece defies easy categorization—not quite cyberpunk, certainly not science fiction, but much more than an historical novel. If you’re tempted to invest in bitcoins, read this first.
The gold standard for swashbuckling adventure. If you haven’t already read it you might have thought that you probably should. You are right.
The Bard is an acquired taste; but like many acquired tastes, it’s worth the effort.
A classic memoir from a wonderful writer about Harold Ross, the colorful founding editor of the New Yorker.
One of America’s greatest early writers, underappreciated today, Washington Irving set the tone for irreverent American humor for the next two centuries with this engaging satire.
I, like my colleagues and probably many of you as well, have developed some go to moves and tricks to deal with learning new skills, “swimming pool, wall-hugging tactics,” so to speak. Only this time, they are keeping me safe while learning…
One of the best of Charles Dickens’ books and one of the best Christmas stories ever written, this is a must for any reader getting into the holiday spirit. You don’t have to be religious, you just have to believe it is…