and yet it is widely considered to be one of those classic books everyone should read—both for its beautiful prose and its commentary on gender and social class. The novel follows the tragic ...

Riis made it his mission to show the American upper- and middle-class the dangerous conditions the poor faced every day with graphic ... is a powerful American classic that tells of her struggles ...

Miriam Tuliao, assistant director of central collection development at the New York Public Library, helped us create a list of 25 American classics everyone should read. From John Steinbeck's ...