by MacKinlay Kantor (1955)
"The greatest of our Civil War novels." - The New York Times The 1955 Pulitzer Prize winning story of the Andersonville Fortress and its use as a concentration camp-like prison by the South during the Civil War.
Robert Penn Warren
Amantha Starr, who was sent to Ohio at age nine to receive an education, does not return to her father's Kentucky plantation until she learns of his death. At his graveside she is shocked to learn that her mother had been a plantation slave, and now she, Amantha, is being sold by her father's creditors. This is her story for a search of freedom.
Александр Солженицын
The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. The work is based on the testimony of some two hundred survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years in labour camps and exile. It is both a thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power. This edition has been abridged into one volume at the author's wish and with his full co-operation.
Doris Lessing
Landlocked is a celebrated work by Doris Lessing (Nobel Laureate), recognized for masterclass storytelling and lasting literary resonance.
Michael Chabon
A model world and other stories is a celebrated work by Michael Chabon (Pulitzer Prize Winner, Hugo Award Winner), recognized for masterclass storytelling and lasting literary resonance.