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The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African

by Olaudah Equiano

I BELIEVE it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity; nor is this the on...

1789 298 ed.
Beloved
Beloved

by Toni Morrison

124 WAS SPITEFUL. Full of a baby's venom.

1987 107 ed.
The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

BETWEEN me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by other...

1903 412 ed.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

1899 552 ed.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

I am fourteen years old.

1976 107 ed.
Sons and Lovers
Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

"The Bottoms" succeeded to "Hell Row."

1913 332 ed.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...

1876 2622 ed.
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

YOU WILL REJOICE to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with...

1818 2185 ed.
Lives
Lives

by Plutarch

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes...

1564 323 ed.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

1960 212 ed.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Very many years ago, instead of having servants to wait upon them and work for them, people used to have slaves.

1850 688 ed.
Gone With the Wind
Gone With the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

Scarlett O'Hara n'était pas d'une beauté classique, mais les hommes ne s'en apercevaient guere quand, å l'exemple des ju...

1936 244 ed.
Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements. As ...

1958 94 ed.
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was the most important African American leader and intellectual of the nineteenth century.

1845 1032 ed.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet A. Jacobs

Eu nasci escrava, mas nunca soube disso até que seis anos de uma infância feliz tivessem se passado.

1861 386 ed.
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

I COULD HEAR THE CARTS driving past the garden fence, sometimes I even caught sight of them through the gently shifting ...

1915 954 ed.
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

IN MY JOURNEY through the wilderness of this world there came a time when I found myself caged up in a very dreary dunge...

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

by William Shakespeare

Why, Bellman is as good as he, my lord.

1631 927 ed.