Reynolds Price

Three crucial days in the life of a North Carolina boy, during which he engages in a python hunt, and is given a boy's view of a man's world.

Retells the stories of Abraham, Moses, Joshua, Samuel, David, Joseph, and Jesus, and discusses the origins of narrative

Three stories in which the characters must overcome great odds to have a promising future.

Award-winning novelist Reynolds Price provides a vivid portrait of his life in the mid-1950s leading up to the publication of his brilliant first novel A Long and Happy Life—detailing his time as a Rhodes scholar, writer, and a teacher.

Seven stories of life in the small towns of North Carolina, mostly about small boys and the very old, both white and Negroes.

This insightful collection of controversial and personal essays from one of America's favorite writers were originally broadcast to great acclaim on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."

The author continues the story of Rosacoke (Rosa) Mustian and Wesley Beavers, now married for twenty-eight years, as Wesley strays to Nashville with a younger woman.

Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving [Young Goodman Brown]( / Nathaniel Hawthorne [Fall of the House of Usher]( / Edgar Allan Poe The lightning-rod man / Herman Melville The diamond lens / Fitzjames O'Brien The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte [Damned Thing]( / Ambrose Bierce The turn of the screw / Henry James The Hiltons' holiday / Sarah Orne Jewett The gift of the Magi / O. Henry The moving finger / Edith Wharton The open boat / Stephen Crane Lou, the prophet / Willa Cather The men of Forty Mile / Jack London Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald [A rose for Emily]( William Faulkner Big two-hearted river / Ernest Hemingway Flight / John Steinbeck