Found 1,230 results for "American Noir fiction"
Le rouge et le noir
by Stendhal
Verrieres is no doubt one of the prettiest small towns in Franche-Comte.
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.
The Black Cat
by Edgar Allan Poe
FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to open, I neither expect nor solicit belief.
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...
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
by Jules Verne
THE YEAR 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one ...
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.
Casino Royale
by Ian Fleming
The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul-erosion produced by high...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
La tulipe noire
by Alexandre Dumas
ON THE 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim, that one might believe every...
Black Boy
by Richard Wright
One winter morning in the long-ago, four-year-old days of my life I found myself standing before a fireplace, warming my...
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...
Interview With the Vampire
by Anne Rice
I see ... said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window.
A Time to Kill
by John Grisham
Billy Ray Cobb was the younger and smaller of the two rednecks.