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Gargantua and Pantagruel
The five-volume work chronicling the adventures of father Gargantua and son Pantagruel is a vehicle for Rabelais' satire of sixteenth-centur…
Ireland Under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum
This first volume of a history of Ireland focuses on the years 1603-1642. It was a period of dramatic, and even of violent, changes in the s…
Smoke Bellew
Smoke Bellew, or really Jack London, leaves his less than satisfying writing job in San Francisco for the opportunity to search for gold in …
The House of Evil
Intrigue and murder stemming from excessive greed in upper-class society of England in the early twentieth century.
Doctor Luttrell's First Patient
Doctor Markus Luttrell and his new wife Olivia, a former governess, are trying to start building their nest. Problems arise when doctor Lutt…
The Gift of Black Folk
This essay is an attempt to set forth more clearly than has hitherto been done the effect which the Negro has had upon American life. Its th…
Special Report on Negro Domestic Service
This paper is an attempt to give the most accurate facts obtainable bearing upon the question of colored domestic service in Philadelphia. (…
Discoveries
Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…
Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed
His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…
Epochs of American History
The second volume follows the principles of growing social and political ideals in the transition from colony to independent nation.
The Heart of Happy Hollow
Happy Hollow; are you wondering where it is? Wherever Negroes colonise in the cities or villages, north or south, wherever the hod carrier, …
In Old Plantation Days
With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern p…
Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed
His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…
The Life of Washington
This fourth volume covers the final battles and the peace conditions of the war, Washington at home, Washington as first President, and the …
St. Elmo
Written in prose and full of references to religion and mythology, this book tells the love story between St. Elmo and Edna. He is cynical a…
Crusaders of New France
The previous volumes in the Chronicles of America series placed Spain and England at the fore in the discovery and development of the New Wo…
Ireland Under the Tudors
Volume 2 continues the social, political, and religious dynamics of Tudor England, particularly during the tumultuous reign of the Protestan…
Ireland Under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum
This second volume of a history of Ireland focuses on the years 1642-1660. It, like the first, was a period of dramatic, and even of violent…
Paul Clifford
Most men who with some earnestness of mind examine into the mysteries of our social state will perhaps pass through that stage of self-educa…
Charles Sumner
In the two volumes assigned to him in the American Reformer Series, viz., the "Life of William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist," …