2011 March

Led by Lovecraft’s dark tale of a mysterious and disturbing extraterrestrial force, this collection features 14 of the horror master’s terrifying short stories, including: The Colour of Space, The Thing on the Doorstep and The Statement of Randolph Carter

Written at the start of the 1900s, Chesnutt’s novel is a masterful examination race relations in the American south that tells the story of two mixed race siblings who pass for white in a segregated world.

The changing role of women in the late 1800s provides the backdrop to Henry James’s tale of the struggle between a conservative lawyer and his feminism cousin to win the affection of the pretty would-be feminist Verena Tarrant.

One of China’s great classic novels, The Dream of the Red Chamber is a semi-autobiographical story that vividly captures the details of life in imperial China.

Bierce’s cynical and witty dictionary reinterprets everyday words to deliver a wicked and amusing lampooning of just about everything that proves as relevant today as when it was first published in 1911.

After leaving the south in search of a better life in Harlem, the Hamiltons – an African-American family – examines the harsh reality of urban black life in the early 1900s.

Tono-Bungay is the drink everyone wants: a liquid that can cure all ills. But does the reality of this miraculous remedy live up to the hype?

Thoreau’s 1849 essay is a powerful call to arms that makes a compelling case for public resistance to unjust laws and skepticism of government.

A defining influence on American westerns, Owen Wister’s romantic novel captures atmosphere of Old West with its story of a Virginian who heads to the wilds of Wyoming.

The second novel in Frank Norris’s never-completed Epic of Wheat trilogy delves into the trading floors of Chicago and the greed that powers them.