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The innocents abroad, or, The new pilgrims' progress ; being some account of the steamship Quaker City's pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land
Mark Twain ; illustrations by Peter Newell and others ; afterword by Leslie Fiedler
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1990; 432 p.; isbn:0895773392 |
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The innocents abroad ; Roughing it
Mark Twain ; [Guy Cardwell wrote the notes and selected the texts for this volume]
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The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose ...
1027 p.; isbn:0940450259 More Information |
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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
Dee Brown
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Doumented account of the decimation of Native Americans in the last half of the 19th century, told from the Indian viewpoint.
1970; 458 p.; isbn:0671494120 More Information |
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The perfect storm : a true story of men against the sea
Sebastian Junger
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October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--a tempest that may happen only once in a century--a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on earth have ever witnessed. ...
1997; 227 p.; isbn:039304016X More Information |
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Life and times of Frederick Douglass
written by himself
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Frederick Douglass, (1817-1895), was the leading spokesman for African Americans in the 1800's. Born a slave, Douglass became a noted reformer, author, and speaker. He devoted his life to the abolition of slavery and the fight for black rights.Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born in Tuckahoe, MD. He changed his name to Douglass to avoid ...
1983; 516 p.; isbn:0806508736 More Information |
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My bondage and my freedom
Frederick Douglass ; edited with an introduction and notes by John David Smith
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""My Bondage and My Freedom," writes John Stauffer in his Foreword, "[is] a deep meditation on the meaning of slavery, race, and freedom, and on the power of faith and literacy, as well as a portrait of an individual and a nation a few years before the Civil War." As his narrative unfolds, Frederick Douglass--abolitionist, journalist, orator, and one ...
2003; 366 p.; isbn:0140439188 More Information |
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Black boy; a record of childhood and youth
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
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285 p.; |
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Little women or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy
Louisa May Alcott ; illustrated by Michael Hague
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Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England
1993; 464 p.; isbn:080502767X More Information |
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How the Garcia girls lost their accents
by Julia Alvarez
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It's a long way from Santo Domingo to the Bronx, but if anyone can go the distance, it's the Garcia girls. Four lively Latinas plunge from a pampered life of privilege on an island compound into the big-city chaos of New York, where they embrace all that America has to offer.
1991; 290 p.; isbn:0945575572 More Information |
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Winesburg, Ohio.
Introd. by Malcolm Cowley
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1960; 247 p.; |
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Something wicked this way comes
Ray Bradbury
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1962; 307 p.; isbn:0394530411 More Information |
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Cold Sassy tree
Olive Ann Burns
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1984; 391 p.; isbn:0899193099 More Information |
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