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The Goodness of St. Rocque
These stories focus on the Creole society of New Orleans and in the process reveals issues facing black Americans at the end of the nineteen…
The House of Mystery
The House of Mystery is based upon the complicated plot involving two women who look exactly alike, one rich and one poor, and so mistaken i…
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. (…
Charles Sumner
In the two volumes assigned to him in the American Reformer Series, viz., the "Life of William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist," …
Black No More
Being an account of the strange and wonderful workings of science in the land of the free, A.D. 1933-1940. (Summary by author)
Transition
Honora Klaper is beautiful, distinguished, smart, and charming. A woman who turns heads. She is on an errand. No, it is not an errand to get…
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…
The Fathers of New England
This sixth installment in the series, as one would expect, deals with events in the northern settlements that were taking place at the same …
The Theory of Psychoanalysis
Jung says the following in his introduction: "in these lectures I have attempted to reconcile my practical experiences in psychoanalysi…
The Three Lieutenants
A few years have passed since the adventures of Terence, Jack, and Alick as midshipmen in the British Navy. They have each gone on their pat…
The Dark Mother
"The Dark Mother" by Waldo David Frank is an early 20th century novel. It dives into human emotions, nature, and introspection thr…
Cane
Reading this book, I had a vision of a land, heretofore sunk in the mists of muteness, suddenly rising up into the eminence of song. Innume…
Prejudices
Mencken is famous for his sometimes-savage attacks on almost everything humans can in their stupidity and priggishness and prejudice conjure…
We
"We" is comprised of two parts. The first ten chapters (sections) where he traces his steady and remarkable genius for flying are …
This Finer Shadow
"This Finer Shadow" by Harlan Cozad McIntosh is a novel written in the early 20th century. The book intricately explores themes of…
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…
Imperium in Imperio
Imperium in Imperio is a historical fiction novel by Sutton Griggs, published in 1899. The novel covers the life of Belton Piedmont, an educ…
William The Outlaw (Abridged)
This 1927 abridged book contains seven of the ten hilarious adventures by the world's most misunderstood eleven-year-old English boy. - Summ…
Rousseau and Education According to Nature
In my Volume on Aristotle in this series, I tried to give an account of ancient, classical, and social Education; in the present volume I ha…
Ireland Under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum
This final volume focuses on the chaos resulting from the various ethnic, social, political, and religious groups after the Restoration of 1…