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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.
Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
A literary classic is a work of the highest excellence that has something important to say about life and/or the human c...
The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. Du Bois
En este libro subyacen muchas cuestiones que, estudiadas con paciencia, pueden mostrar el extraño significado de ser neg...
Lives
by Plutarch
IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...
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...
Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington
I WAS born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia.
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...
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 ...
Bible
by Bible
Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
LATE in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting in a well-furnished room in a town in Kent...
Twelve years a slave
by Solomon Northup
Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and having a...
The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is a lively, vigorous and much-adapted play.
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.
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...
Native Son
by Richard Wright, Richard Wright - undifferentiated
BRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNG! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room.
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
IT IS SOME eleven years since the first Author's Note was written.
Purple Hibiscus
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal acro...
The marrow of tradition
by Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Though only a twenty-three-year-old African American school principal in Fayetteville, North Carolina, when he made thes...