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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.
Bleak House
Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

LONDON. MICHAELMAS TERM LATELY OVER, AND THE LORD Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall.

1850 418 ed.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

THIS novel being one wherein the great campaign of the heroine begins after an event in her experience which has usually...

1707 747 ed.
Twelve years a slave
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...

1853 1029 ed.
The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...

1800 538 ed.
David Copperfield
David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by any body else, these pag...

1800 846 ed.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

MY FATHER'S FAMILY NAME being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...

1861 1489 ed.
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and...

1822 2209 ed.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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...

1850 688 ed.
Bible
Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.

1200 6084 ed.
Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit

by Charles Dickens, Mary Sebag-Montefiore

THIRTY years ago, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day.

1800 305 ed.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

by Charles Dickens

There once lived in a sequestered part of the country of Devonshire, one Mr Godfrey Nickleby, a worthy gentleman, who ta...

1800 392 ed.
20 Years at Hull House
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...

1910 115 ed.
Culture and anarchy; an essay in political and social criticism
Culture and anarchy; an essay in political and social critic...

by Matthew Arnold, Matthew Arnold

IN one of his speeches a year or two ago, that fine speaker and famous Liberal, Mr Bright, took occasion to have a fling...

1869 138 ed.
Dombey and Son
Dombey and Son

by Charles Dickens

Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a lit...

1800 326 ed.
How the other half lives
How the other half lives

by Jacob A. Riis, K. D. Weeks

1. LONG ago it was said that "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives."

1890 119 ed.
My bondage and my freedom
My bondage and my freedom

by Frederick Douglass

In Talbot county, Eastern Shore, Maryland, near Easton, the county town of that county, there is a small district of cou...

1815 509 ed.
Ancient Society (The John Harvard Library)
Ancient Society (The John Harvard Library)

by Lewis Henry Morgan, Lewis Morgan

The latest investigations respecting the early condition of the human race, are tending to the conclusion that mankind c...

1877 72 ed.
Michigan
Michigan

by Francis X. Blouin, Maris A. Vinovskis

1987 1 ed.