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Oliver Fischer, a self-styled bohemian, boardwalk caricaturist, and student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, enrages his banker father and earns the contempt of Philadelphia's foremost realist painter Thomas Eakins when he attempts to stage Manet's scandalous painting The Luncheon on the Grass. Soon after, he is ensnarled, along with Mark Twain and Andrew Carnegie, in a clash between the Anti-Imperialist League and their expansion...

Ralph Waldo Emerson battles dementia while debating whether to intercede in a Black soldier's unjust arrestIn 1879, toward the end of his life, the Sage of Concord has lost his words. Beset by aphasia and grief, Ralph Waldo Emerson is scarcely recognizable as America's foremost essayist and orator. To the dismay of his wife, he frequently entertains the specters of his fellow transcendentalists, including Whitman, Thoreau, John Muir, and Marga...

In the ninth American Novels series book, Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott meet the horrors of the Civil War as they minister to its casualties.

Fiction. "There are moments that remind me of Sax Rohmer or early 20th century science fiction, bits and pieces of language that seem to come out of Jules Verne or Gaston LeRoux. The language itself is quite stylized, replete with a carefully eccentric vocabulary that Lock does very well. He has an impressive ability to create a unique and original world"--Brian Evenson.

Nathaniel Hawthorne pens a new tale to exact revenge on his ancestor, a notorious judge of the Salem witch trials.

A black comedy touched with absurdity and a philosophical bent that puts the torch to middle-class complacency. "…Lock's ideas lend tangy new flavor to an old form… HOUSE OF CORRECTION is first, last and always a superior mystery-comedy-thriller… He has written a fast moving, absurdist piece of neo-realistic suspense of the sort that works best only in the theater. It is a tribute to his talent…" Sylvie Drake, Los Angeles Times "…Norman Loc...

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In the fifth American Novels series book, a nineteenth-century army chaplain confesses his loss of faith in God and country to his first love, poet Emily Dickinson.

Huck Finn's mythic adventures--and childhood--abruptly end when he steps off his raft into Hurricane Katrina.

Give your brain a thorough workout with the simple but brilliant puzzles taking Britain by storm...

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In the second American Novels series book, a scrappy Brooklyn orphan turned vengeful assassin narrates a visionary tale of the American West.

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In this panoramic tale of manifest destiny, Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific, just as the railroad unites the continent. Propelled westward from his Brooklyn neighborhood and the killing fields of the Civil War to the Battle of Little Big Horn, he befriends Walt Whitman, becomes a bugler on President Lincoln's funeral train, apprentices with frontier photographer William Henry Jackson, and ...

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In the third American Novels series book, a young surgical assistant faces his doppelgänger in a chilling tale featuring Edgar Allan Poe and a "lost" Poe story.

A dark and marvelous journey from the Industrial Age through Hollywood's Golden Age, into the Digital Age and beyond.

In the fourth American Novels series book, Henry David Thoreau's principles are tested when a young man escapes from slavery into Walden Woods.