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Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

1956 113 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.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

I am fourteen years old.

1976 107 ed.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

1960 212 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.
Black Boy
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...

1945 64 ed.
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

The exterior of a two-story corner building on a street in New Orleans which is named Elysian Fields and runs between th...

1947 69 ed.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

alone to the jewelry store where he worked as a silverware engraver. In the late afternoon the friends would meet again.

1940 64 ed.
A good man is hard to find
A good man is hard to find

by Flannery O'Connor, Lauren Groff

silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.

1955 31 ed.
Cane
Cane

by Jean Toomer

Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon, O cant you see it, O cant you see it, Her skin is like dusk on the eastern...

1923 61 ed.
The slave community
The slave community

by John W. Blassingame, John W. Blassingame

The chains of the American Negro's captivity were forged in Africa.

1972 7 ed.
Tales of the Jazz Age
Tales of the Jazz Age

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This is a Southern story, with the scene laid in the small city of Tarleton, Georgia.

1922 124 ed.
The school for scandal, 1780
The school for scandal, 1780

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A school for Scandal! tell me, I beseech you,

1778 164 ed.
The Conjure Woman
The Conjure Woman

by Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Some years ago my wife was in poor health, and our family doctor, in whose skill and honesty I had implicit confidence, ...

1899 142 ed.
A southern planter
A southern planter

by Smedes, Susan Dabney, Smedes, Susan Dabney

1889 11 ed.