A novel of outspoken protest, 'Pillar of Fire' is unique in the literature of modern Japan. First published in 1904, when Japan embarked enthusiastically on a 'just' war against Russia, it stands uncompromisingly for peace and reconciliation with the Russian people, pleads for social justice to mitigate the cruel conditions which existed in so many of Japan's newly developed industries, and lampoons the greed and immorality of the authoritarian Establishment...

Contains stories and novellas which were the precursors to, and show the evolution of, the full-length classic novel Fahrenheit 451

A group of children and a "spirit" go back through time to discover the beginnings of Halloween.

"Coming from the world he writes about, Williamson understands it in a way that most commentators on American politics and culture simply can't. In these sometimes savage and often hilarious essays, he takes readers on a wild tour of the wreckage of the American republic--the "white minstrel show" of right-wing grievance politics, progressive politicians addicted to gambling revenue, the culture of passive victimhood, and the reality of permanent...

An Englishman undertakes a quest to find Ayesha, the mysterious white queen of a Central African tribe--a monstrous and desirable female.

This book concludes a 3-volume history of American race, violence, and democracy. As the book begins, King and his movement are one decade into an epic struggle for the promises of democracy. The quest to cross Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965 engages the conscience of the world, strains the civil rights coalition, and embroils King with the U.S. government. After Selma, freedom workers are murdered, but sharecroppers learn to read, dare...

Stories about a bad son, describing the pain he brings his parents. The only consolation is that it's a case of like-father-like-son, the father having been a bad boy as well. The protagonists are New York Jews. By the author of What Is It Then Between Us?

Describes the life of the imaginative photographer, including her work for Fortune and Life magazine.

On February 13 and 14, 1945, three waves of British and U.S. aircraft rained thousands of tons of incendiary bombs on the largely undefended German city of Dresden. Dresden was engulfed in a vast sea of flame, a firestorm that generated 1,500-degree temperatures and hurricane-force winds. Thousands suffocated in underground shelters, while the fierce winds pulled thousands more into the firestorm. By the time the fires burned out, days later, a great...