One of Ours by Willa Cather won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1923. The Pulitzer Prize is awarded to works of “distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.” This is one of (at the time of this writing) 10 Pulitzer-winning books that are no longer under copyright and are available […]
Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1922. The Pulitzer Prize is awarded to works of “distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.” This is one of (at the time of this writing) 10 Pulitzer-winning books that are no longer under copyright and are available free
The way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. He’s attracted to independent women. “He’s like an exotic bird collector,” she said. “He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a
I’ll be relying on Project Gutenberg for a fair amount of my reading in 2026. As it says at the top of their home page, “Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks,” which is a number too large to browse without getting fatigued. (That’s how I “watch movies”: scroll for 20 minutes,
His Family by Ernest Poole won the first Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1918. The prize is awarded to works of “distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.” This is one of (at the time of this writing) 10 Pulitzer-winning books that are no longer under copyright and are available free