Modern Library Classics The Ox-Bow Incident, (Paperback)

from SeriousGrace

The Ox-Bow Incident was first published in 1940 but its premise could have been about modern mob mentality. It is the story of a rumor and what happens when a community is whipped into a frenzied n...

from phebj

I originally heard about this book in 2010 when I participated in my first group read on LT for Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs, a book of essays about the West by Wallace Stegner....

from kalafish

Considered a classic western, this book is about men and their thirst for justice at whatever cost. The book takes time to get going, but along the way you get to know a few of the characters and w...

from Cheryl_in_CC_NV

I've never seen the movie, nor did I really know what this was about going in - only that it's short, and that it's read both for pleasure and studied as Literature. Well, I was duly impressed. I d...

from jopearson56

This was really quite a great book. I remember reading it for American Literature in high school, and I don't think I much cared for it -- except that I have always remembered it for its very graph...