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Beloved
Beloved

by Toni Morrison

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

1987 107 ed.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801.1 HAVE JUST returned from a visit to my landlordthe solitary neighbour that 1 shall be troubled with.

1846 2886 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
American notes
American notes

by Charles Dickens, Diana C. Archibald

I SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the th...

1800 233 ed.
The Man in the High Castle
The Man in the High Castle

by Philip K. Dick

For a week Mr. R. Childan had been anxiously watching the mail.

1962 83 ed.
The Crucible
The Crucible

by Arthur Miller

In 1692 nineteen men and women and two dogs were convicted and hanged for witchcraft in a small village in eastern Massa...

1953 83 ed.
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

by Mark Twain

The scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson's Landing, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day's journ...

1758 250 ed.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

by Mildred D. Taylor

"Little Man, would you come on? You keep it up and you're gonna make us late."

1976 70 ed.
Novels (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
Novels (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Tom S...

by Mark Twain

"Tom!" No answer. "Tom!" No answer. "What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You, TOM!"

1922 68 ed.
Roots
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...

1861 63 ed.
My father's dragon
My father's dragon

by Ruth Stiles Gannett

Once cold rainy day when my father was a little boy, he met an old alley cat on his street.

1948 47 ed.
Citizen of the Galaxy
Citizen of the Galaxy

by Robert A. Heinlein

"LOT NINETY-SEVEN," the auctioneer announced.

1957 37 ed.
River god
River god

by Wilbur Smith

THE RIVER LAY HEAVILY UPON THE desert, bright as a spill of molten metal from a furnace.

1993 43 ed.
Lyddie
Lyddie

by Katherine Paterson

The bear had been their undoing, though at the time they had all laughed.

1991 33 ed.