One young man's journey from Confederate gray to Union blue will carry him farther from home than he ever imagined.Johns River, North Carolina, 1861. Seventeen-year-old Joe Hartley has never known a world beyond the mountain bend where the water slips out of sight. He works rented land alongside free Black farming families who have long treated the Hartleys as their own, and he loves Hannah Bass, the fierce young woman who believes a larger world is waitin...

One young man's journey from Confederate gray to Union blue will carry him farther from home than he ever imagined.Johns River, North Carolina, 1861. Seventeen-year-old Joe Hartley has never known a world beyond the mountain bend where the water slips out of sight. He works rented land alongside free Black farming families who have long treated the Hartleys as their own, and he loves Hannah Bass, the fierce young woman who believes a larger world is waiting beyond their isolated co...

The Classic Victorian Ghost Story-Annotated and ContextualizedTHE TURN OF THE SCREWThe Turn of the Screw presents Henry James's original 1898 text together with an original editorial introduction, more than 60 explanatory annotations, and a curated further reading guide.First published in 1898, The Turn of the Screw remains one of the most celebrated and enigmatic ghost stories in the English language. When a young...

The Classic Novel of Science, Identity, and the Divided Self-Annotated and ContextualizedTHE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDEFirst published in 1886, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde remains one of the most celebrated and influential works of Gothic fiction. When the respected Dr. Henry Jekyll discovers a way to separate the conflicting forces within human nature, he unleashes the mysterious Edward Hyde, whose vio...