Washington: 971 books

Introduction iCarly is an American teen comedy that focuses on a lady named Carly Shay who creates her own internet program called iCarly with her best friends Sam and Freddie. The series was created by Dan Schneider, who additionally serves as manager producer. It stars Miranda Cosgrove...

The Damned Thing - Ambrose Bierce A Prisoner in Fairyland - Algernon Blackwood The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories - Algernon Blackwood The Willows - Algernon Blackwood Wieland: or, The Transformation - Charles Brockden Brown The Keeper of Cademuir - John Buchan No-man's-land - John Buchan The...

This fascinating compendium examines the legacy of the War Between the States. At the Washington Post, the Civil War has held an enduring fascination for both readers and writers. Raging from 1861 to 1865, the War Between the States has left a lasting imprint on the United States’s collective...

This essential collection comprises a trio of the most influential African-American writings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Exploring such themes as slavery and its abolition, the struggle for equality, and the impassioned rise from bondage to international recognition, each landmark book...

Slave Narrative Six Pack 3 presents six more essential texts: Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman by Austin Steward Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs Escaping in a Chest: The Lear Green Story by William Still Up From Slavery by Booker...

This biography, written by Booker T. Washington, one of most important post-Civil War African-American thinkers, is an account of the life and career of Frederick Douglass. The biographical account is set within a nation struggling to solve one of the most excruciating social problems that any modern...

Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) was one of the most prominent freedom fighter who fough for the rights of Afro-American contingent on education. Up from slavery is a short piece of literary work in the form of meditation. The main topic is the opportunity of Afro-American people to...

In 1809, New Yorkers were buzzing about a series of classified ads concerning the whereabouts of Dutch historian Diedrich Knickerbocker. They were unaware that Washington Irving had invented the man entirely and placed the ads himself. Knickerbocker's purported manuscript, A History of New York, was...

Have lawmakers helped themselves while helping the country?After the nation’s financial crisis led Congress to unprecedented economic intervention, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post began an investigation that pierced the secrecy of the deeply flawed financial disclosure system that governs...

Contents THE PROPHETIC PICTURES By Nathaniel Hawthorne THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW By Washington Irving THE GOLD-BUG By Edgar Allan Poe CORPORAL FLINT'S MURDER (From "The Oak Openings") By J. Fenimore Cooper UNCLE JIM...

A collection of short works by Washington Irving, which includes the following: The Journey, Palace of the Alhambra, Note on Morisco Architecture, Important Negotiations. The Author Succeeds to the Throne of Boabdil, Inhabitants of the Alhambra, The Hall of Ambassadors, The Jesuits' Library, Alhamar,...

This book contains several tables of HTML content to make reading easier. The novels are sorted alphabetically by the authors. Anthology containing: The King in Yellow by Robert William Chambers The Lost Stradivarius by John Meade Falkner The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Legend of...

The Occult Fiction Collection assembles 29 of the greatest occult & supernatural stories ever written. Featuring: THE ABBOT’S GHOST, OR MAURICE TREBERNE’S TEMPTATION, by Louisa May Alcott THE GHOST, by Arnold Bennett THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST’S BARGAIN, by Charles Dickens THE...

To escape his nagging wife, a henpecked villager goes rambling through the Catskills and encounters mysterious strangers with a powerful liquor. Twenty years later, Rip Van Winkle awakens to find his world forever changed. Washington Irving's evocative 1819 classic of colonial life first appeared in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories.