John Seelye Books
Stories of the Old West
By John Seelye
The literature of the "Old" West is very old indeed, but stories from the region began to appear only after the Civil War, as the short story emerged as a major literary form and the West emerged a...
Read MoreTarzan of the Apes
The classic novel of a boy rasied by Apes in the African jungle, now the basis for a major motion picture, The Legend of Tarzan, starring Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, and...
Read MoreThe Virginian
By Owen Wister
The epic novel of the American West and the heroic cowboyOwen Wister's powerful story of the tall, silent stranger who rides into the uncivilized West and defeats the forces of evil has become an e...
Read MoreThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer
By Mark Twain
The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.
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