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Mr. Weston's Good Wine
This 1927 novel describes an evening in 1923 when Mr. Weston, who is apparently a wine merchant, but is evidently God, visits the fictional …
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…
Monte-Cristo's Daughter
"Monte-Cristo's Daughter," a wonderfully brilliant, original, exciting and absorbing novel, is the Sequel to "The Count of Mo…
Jesus Christ Had Negro Blood in His Veins
This short work attempts to establish that Jesus had black ancestry dating back to Ham, the son of Noah, who had been made black-skinned as …
Our Friend The Charlatan
Dice Lashmore will do everything he can in in his quest to become rich. The key is, of course, finding a rich wife. This book describes his …
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…
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 Spirit of the Town
A novel presentation in fiction form of the impulse and desire which mold the lives of men -- From the title page
William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist
"THE author of this volume desires . . . to say . . . that it is his earnest hope that this record of a hero may be an aid to brave and…
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…
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…
Epochs of American History
The second volume follows the principles of growing social and political ideals in the transition from colony to independent nation.
Antic Hay
The epigram to this work from Christoher Marlowe applies to the plot of this story: "My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns / Shall wi…
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…
Cock-House at Fellsgarth
A classic English Public School story with all the usual suspects: unruly juniors, wise upper form boys, and an outcast. Summary by Von
Psychology of the Unconscious
Jung says in his subtitle that this work is a study of the transformations and symbolisms of the libido and a contribution to the history of…
Sons of Fire
"He was a stranger in Matcham, a 'foreigner' as the villagers called such alien visitors. He had never been in the village before, knew…
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 Birth of Tragedy
In this famous early work of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he investigates the artistic characteristics of Apollonian (reason) and…
The Fortunes of Nigel
During the turbulent moment in English history involving King James 1 and 6, Nigel Olifaunt, a Scottish lord, seeks to protect his family ho…