Jim Locke
The Cross-Cut
A Colorado mining story dealing with an attempt by Squint Rodain and his son to wrest the Blue Poppy Silver Mine from Robert Fairchild. An e…
Wild Bird Guests
How to entertain them; with chapters on the destruction of birds, their economic and aesthetic values, suggestions for dealing with their en…
The House of Evil
Intrigue and murder stemming from excessive greed in upper-class society of England in the early twentieth century.
The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer
Ms. Pinckney says in her "Forward" to this book the following: "It is against this background of the world need that Mrs. Ali…
Sowing and Reaping
This novel is subtitled A Temperance Story, which identifies explicitly the focus of the work. Frances Harper is a Christian moralist and us…
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The deaths of five people resulting from the collapse of a bridge over a ravine prompts an observer to investigate the lives of the fallen a…
Prejudices, Second Series
Mencken is famous for his sometimes-savage attacks on almost everything humans can in their stupidity and priggishness and prejudice conjure…
Walker's Appeal
The Appeal grabbed readers’ attention in as dramatic a manner as Walker could have possibly imagined. In her book, Maria W. Stewart and the …
The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789
A thorough analysis of the social, religious, and political dynamics of French society which led to the French Revolution.
Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism
Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…
The Primitive
A nerve-twisting novel of passion and destruction (Summary by a literary critic)
We
"We" is comprised of two parts. The first ten chapters (sections) where he traces his steady and remarkable genius for flying are …
The Uncalled
Orphaned Freddie Brent ends up adopted by an old local Christian lady who knows nothing about raising a child. And matters are worsened by h…
True Love: A Story of English Domestic Life
The author is aware that she is entering a field which has been diligently cultivated by the best minds in Europe and America. Her design in…
Chicago May: Her Story
This is a cold-blooded recital of fact, a plain, unvarnished statement from a client to a lawyer. It is the history of the life of a notorio…
Finding a Way Out: An Autobiography
He says about this work: "I have tried to record the events that have given character and colour to my own life, and at the same time t…
Scarlet Sister Mary
How did 1929 Pulitzer winner and white plantation mistress Julia Peterkin become a favorite of the Harlem Renaissance? According to W.E.B. D…
Epochs of American History: The Colonists 1492-1750
This first of four volumes is a description and detailed analysis of the formation and development of the thirteen colonies of America. A ti…
The Love of Landry
The Love of Landry is one of Dunbar's four novels, and one of three that are about white people. In this case, the story is about the recupe…
The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races
This novel investigates the black urban community of the early twentieth century, highlighting the base degradation and violence there. But …