Labyrinth: A novel

Middlemarch

George Eliot

Middlemarch is a didactic work of fiction that weaves together the ordinary rhythms of English town and…

Ulysses

James Joyce

James Joyce’s Ulysses is a densely layered work of literary fiction that foregrounds city and town life,…

The Daughter of Anderson Crow

George Barr McCutcheon

The Daughter of Anderson Crow is a slice‑of‑life novel set in a small New York State town, where the everyday…

The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life

Sinclair Lewis

The book is a comic‑looking slice of early‑20th‑century Midwestern life, set in the fictional towns of…

In Our Town

William Allen White

In In Our Town William Allen White offers a satirical portrait of a typical American country community,…

A Village of Vagabonds

F. Berkeley Smith

The novel is a French‑set adventure of an American who abandons his comfortable farm in the market town of…