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Gone With the Wind
Gone With the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

1936 244 ed.
Sons and Lovers
Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

"The Bottoms" succeeded to "Hell Row."

1913 332 ed.
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

When at the first I took my Pen in hand, / Thus for to write; I did not understand / That I at all should make a little ...

1678 683 ed.
The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is a lively, vigorous and much-adapted play.

1631 927 ed.
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...

1818 2185 ed.
Black History Month February 2020
Black History Month February 2020

by African Americans History

2020 1 ed.
The mis-education of the Negro
The mis-education of the Negro

by Carter Godwin Woodson, George G.M. James

THE "educated Negroes" have the attitude of contempt toward their own people because in their own as well as in their mi...

1933 101 ed.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

"WHEN I was three and Bailey four, we had arrived in the mustly little town, wearing tags on our wrists which instructed...

1969 81 ed.
Roots
Roots

by Alex Haley

Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a m...

1861 63 ed.
Native Son
Native Son

by Richard Wright, Richard Wright - undifferentiated

BRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNG! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room.

1940 75 ed.
A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry

The YOUNGER living room would be a comfortable and well-ordered room if it were not for a number of indestructible contr...

1958 80 ed.
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

by Mark Twain

The scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson's Landing, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day's journ...

1758 250 ed.
A Time to Kill
A Time to Kill

by John Grisham

BILLY RAY COBB was the younger and smaller of the two rednecks.

1989 79 ed.