Found 823 results for "Immigrants in fiction"
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A THRONG of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats intermixed with women, some wearing hood...
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
FIRST HEARD of Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America.
Amerika
by Franz Kafka
As Karl Rossmann, a poor boy of sixteen who had been packed off to America by his parents because a servant girl had sed...
O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to...
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the falls azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff-and I Lived ...
20 Years at Hull House
by Jane Addams
ON THE THEORY that our genuine impulses may be connected with our childish experiences, that one's bent may be tracked b...
The Hundred Dresses
by Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin
TODAY, Monday, Wanda Petronski was not in her seat.
El Buen Nombre (Lingua Franca)
by Jhumpa Lahiri
ON A STICKY AUGUST EVENING two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apart...
Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
THE NOTICE INFORMED THEM that it was a temporary matter: for five days their electricity would be cut off for one hour, ...
Manhattan Transfer
by John Dos Passos
THE nurse, holding the basket at arm's length as if it were a bedpan, opened the door to a big dry hot room with greenis...
The Prodigal Daughter
by Jeffrey Archer
IT HAD NOT been an easy birth, but then for Abel and Zaphia Rosnovski nothing had ever been easy, and in their own ways ...
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by Anne Fadiman
If Lia Lee had been born in the highlands of northwest Laos, where her parents and twelve of her brothers and sisters we...
