A Single Pebble
John Hersey
An often perilous journey up the Yangtze River aboard a Chinese junk provides a young and impatient American engineer new insights into life's meaning.
Read Time: ~3.9 hr
Greenwillow
by B. J. Chute (1956)
About this book
Nostalgic story of a village which the author does not locate in time or place, but which is a typical small town.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraLate 20th Century
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters
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