Allen, Hervey, Toward the Flame: A Memoir of World War I, illustrated by Lyle Justis, Bison Books, 2003.

Allen's memoir is about his service as a soldier during World War I. He recounts a march across the beautiful French countryside toward a battle that results in the destruction of his unit.

Howells, Coral Ann, Contemporary Canadian Women's Fiction: Refiguring Identities, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

In a series of essays, Howells examines the theme of changing cultural and national identities through Canadian fiction by women writers since the mid-1990s. She explores works by Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Carol Shields, among others.

Mayle, Peter, A Year in Provence, Vintage, 1991.

Mayle, a British travel writer, spent a year in the south of France and writes with candor and humor about his experiences in this memoir-travelogue.

Smith, C. Alphonse, O. Henry, University Press of the Pacific, 2003.

William Sidney Porter, whose pseudonym...