Domain - Nonfiction

At the turn of the twentieth century, Charles Dana Gibson's pen-and-ink drawings of the "American Girl" — now remembered as the Gibson Girl — bec...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2014A Time Magazine Notable Book of 2014Olivia Laing's widely acclaimed account of how writers in the grip of al...

Modern life is a sea of images. With so much visual data bombarding us—from personal devices to mass media—our brains must rapidly adapt to make ...

The standard work on Fitzgerald, revised, enlarged, and updated Since its first publication in 1981, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur has stood apart f...

From a donated typewriter that frequently breaks down, people on Alabama's death row have literally cut and pasted together a newsletter, On Wing...

William Federer has assembled--on a monumental scale--quotations from Founding Fathers, Presidents, statesmen, constitutions, and court decisions...

One of the greatest and most admired artists of the twentieth century, Georgia O’Keeffe led a life rich in intense relationships—with family, fri...

This beautiful book presents the extraordinary work of the iconic American "outsider" artist in a new critical light, locating him as a major fig...

The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars  “Replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most att...

Winner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's ...

A collection of insightful and thought provoking essays from one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth centuryA new edition of the most defin...

Here she found the peace and aloneness she sought--and partly feared. The journal records the renewing of her life and work in this place. Produc...