'There remains the greatest of all novelists-for what else can we call the author of War And Peace? [Tolstoy's] senses, his intellect, are acute, powerful, and well nourished...Nothing seems to escape him. Nothing glances off him unrecorded...Every twig, every feather sticks to his magnet. He notices the blue or red of a child's frock; the way a horse shifts its tail; the sound of a cough; the action of a man trying to put his hands into pockets that...

Traces the history of the gold rush in California including anecdotes about legendary characters and fabulous "strikes" of the mining camps.

Henry Dailey buys a spoiled, contrary two-year-old filly, a daughter of the Black, in November, and is determined to have a Kentucky Derby candidate by May.

Reprint of the 1958 ed. Presents an account of events leading up to and occurring during the American Revolution.

The controversial leader of the Black Muslims tells the story of his life and his part in the civil rights movement.

In Tsarist Russia, Yakov is accused of a ritual murder he did not commit.

A biography of the black poet whose poems were influenced greatly by jazz and blues rhythms.