Books in the Pine Street Books series

Though most widely known for the novella "The Great Gatsby", F Scott Fitzgerald gained a major source of income as a professional writer from the sale of short stories. This work includes two masterpieces as well as several other stories from his earlier career. In introducing each story, Fitzgerald offers accounts of its textual history.

"I can't describe my frame of mind that afternoon. Not for a moment did I feel any fear of death; one simply abandons oneself to fate."-Karl Aldag, killed at Fromelles, France, age 26

Diana Mayo is young, beautiful, wealthy - and independent. Bored by the eligible bachelors and endless parties of the English aristocracy, she arranges for a horseback trek through the Algerian desert. Two days into her adventure, Diana is kidnapped by the powerful Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, who forces her into submission.

A compelling psychological novel that explores whether moral character is inborn or shaped by environment. "A striking little book, striking in its simplicity and penetration, its passion and restraint."-Times Literary Supplement

"For Dreiser, Jennie Gerhardt was a good career move. Now, with this Pennsylvania edition, we know that it is also a great novel."-New York Times

Now in paperback for the first time, this collection appears as it was originally published, including the specially commissioned artwork illustrating each story.

Long been considered one of the literary giants of his age, Henry James is an exquisite stylist who questioned the mores and stereotypes of the Gilded Age.

The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd is one of D. H. Lawrence's most significant early works, first published in 1914.

Appearing here for the first time in paperback, the stories in Folktales from Iraq, each accompanied by specially commissioned engravings, allow the reader to travel to a distant, imaginary land swirling with great fortunes, terrifying predicaments, and quick-witted heroes.

"Presently one saw great clouds of gas sweeping across, and I must say I felt we were looking into hell indeed."-Lt. C. C. Carver, killed in Flanders, age 20

"In the Days of Serfdom" and Other Stories presents in miniature themes developed in Tolstoy's longer works. All the stories are compelling reading, but because of their general unavailability, they have been ignored by contemporary scholars and teachers.

The Quest of the Silver FleeceA NovelW. E. B. Du Bois. Illustrated by H. S. De Lay"Dramatic, original, and convincing."--Literary Digest"The author has put into the story all his wealth of justice and passion."--IndependentSet in Alabama and Washington, D.C., in the early part of the twentieth century, W. E. B. Du Bois's first novel weaves the themes of racial equality and understanding through the stark reality of prejudice and bias. Originally published in 1911 and conceived immediately after The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois turned to fiction to carry his message to a popular audience who were unfamiliar with his nonfiction works. Du Bois addresses the fact that, despite the legal emancipation of African Americans, the instruments of oppression, in both the economy and government, remained in good working order. At the time he was writing, powerful white industrialists controlled the cotton industry, the "silver fleece" that depended, as it did during slavery, on the physical labor of African Americans. White Americans also controlled local and national government.In the novel, Blessed "Bles" Alwyn, a young man seeking formal education to improve himself, is captivated by Zora, a vivacious, independent woman who lives outside society in a mysterious swamp. Faced with shocking events in Zora's past and ambivalence about how a black man should integrate into American society, Bles pursues his goals and ends up in Washington to assist on a senator's campaign. While in the city, he meets successful African Americans--and falls in love--but he ultimately recoils from the hypocrisies they must endure in order to be accepted in society. Instead, he is compelled to return to Alabama and Zora, where he must face his greatest challenges and fears.With its frank and clear language, The Quest of the Silver Fleece is a remarkable portrait of racial prejudice at the turn of the twentieth century. Through the characters, Du Bois demonstrates the efficacy of self-sufficiency for those who face discrimination while championing the benefits of strength in diversity to American society as a whole.William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was an American sociologist, author, and cofounder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). His pioneering works and are also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.Pine Street Books2004 | 440 pages | 5 x 7 1/2 | 4 illus.ISBN 978-0-8122-1892-3 | Paper | $19.95s | £13.00 ISBN 978-0-8122-0179-6 | Ebook | $19.95s | £13.00 World Rights | Fiction

The moving story of Thomas Mann's relationship with his spirited German short-haired pointer. "The life of a dog is a simple and strangely marvelous thing; and that finally may be what sets Bashan and I apart: it is true to the life of a dog."-Gary Amdahl, Ruminator Review

During the Carlist war, a sailor, the unnamed protagonist, joins the champions of Don Carlos de Bourbon, pretender to the throne of Spain. The Carlists use the youth's attraction to the sea to persuade him to run perilous enterprises for their cause, ventures he later learns have been financed by the mistress and heiress of a rich man's fortune.