Walt Whitman: A Life

By Justin Kaplan

Back Then: Two Literary Lives in 1950s New York

By Justin Kaplan, Anne Bernays

Harper American Literature, Volume I

By Robert Steptoe, Robert Atwan, Justin Kaplan, David Minter, Martha Banta, Donald McQuade

Harper American Literature, Volume II

By Robert Steptoe, Robert Atwan, Justin Kaplan, Cecelia Tichi, David Minter, Martha Banta, Helen Hennessy Vendler, Donald McQuade

Harper American Literature, Native Son

By Robert Atwan, Justin Kaplan, Cecelia Tichi, Robert Stepto, David Minter, Martha Banta, Helen Hennessy Vendler, Donald McQuade

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By Justin Kaplan, Mark Twain

When Connecticut mechanic and foreman Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious, he wakes not to the familiar scenes of nineteenth-century America but to the bewildering sights and sounds of sixth-century...

The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain s Short Stories Signet Classics

By Justin Kaplan, Mark Twain

The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Stories

By Justin Kaplan, Mark Twain

For nearly two decades before Mark Twain published his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he was refining his craft and winning tremendous popularity with his short stories and sketches....

When the Astors Owned New York

By Justin Kaplan

In this marvelous anecdotal history, Justin Kaplan––Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Mark Twain––vividly brings to life a grand story from the glittering Gilded Age. Endowed with the largest pr...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By Justin Kaplan

Now that he is rich, everyone wants to civilise Huck Finn But he decides that he cannot stand it; he stages his own murder and, with runaway slave Jim, goes booming down the Mississippi on a raft...