Addie Bundren’s health is deteriorating rapidly, and her eldest son, Cash, is hewing the most beautiful coffin he can manage right outside her bedroom window. Wretchedly poor, the Bundrens watch Addie die, then make their way with her corpse, its coffin in a mule-drawn wagon, across the fictional Yo...show more
In the pages of this classic adventure tale you’ll meet one of the greatest heroes in American literature, Nathaniel Bumppo, a rugged scout and woodsman who goes by any number of nicknames, among them Natty, Leatherstocking, Pathfinder, Deerslayer, and Hawkeye. The Last of the Mohicans is the second...show more
“You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat,” Roger Kahn observes, reflecting on his own passionate attachment to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Kahn covered “dem Bums” as a sportswriter for the New York Herald Tribune during the summers of 1952 and 1953, in the middle of ...show more
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