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Written by three of the most prominent black writers of the nineteenth century, this trio of compelling early classics of African-American literature paints unforgettable portraits of strength and determination framed by the shackles of slavery. Abolitionist authors Frederick Douglass and William...

This early work by William Lyon Phelps was originally published in 1931 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Human Nature' is an essay about the curiosities of human nature referenced to well-known authors. William Lyon Phelps was born on 2nd January 1865, in New...

For most of the last century, William F. Buckley Jr. was the leading figure in the conservative movement in America. The magazine he founded in 1955, National Review, brought together writers representing every strand of conservative thought, and refined those ideas over the decades that followed. Buckley’s...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Temptress. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by William Le Queux,...

From an obscure family in a small provincial town, Shakespeare had no formal education after the age of thirteen. His surviving handwriting consists of six signatures on legal documents. His will makes no mention of his books or manuscripts. His two daughters were illiterate. There is, in other words,...

An authorized account of how William Peter Blatty came to write both the novel and the screenplay of "The Exorcist". At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Racism never got off the bus . . . On a rainy night in Houston, in a ratty apartment as dark as his dreams, retired bus driver Frank Granger wakes in a cold sweat convinced a stranger with a gun lurks at the foot of his bed. And he's right. In this riveting tale of suspense and revenge,...

STUDIES HENRY JAMES, JR. The events of Mr. James's life—as we agree to understand events—may be told in a very few words. His race is Irish on his father's side and Scotch on his mOther's, to which mingled strains the generalizer may attribute, if he likes, that union of vivid expression and dispassionate...

Considered "The Dean of American Letters," Willian Dean Howells has broad range of works appealing to young and old. His writing style favored naturalism, in which he related his characters' observations in a seemingly casual and endearing manner by embracing their imperfections. In these...

T. S. Eliot was raised in the Unitarian faith of his family in St. Louis but drifted away from their beliefs while studying philosophy, mysticism, and anthropology at Harvard. During a year in Paris, he became involved with a group of Catholic writers and subsequently went through a gradual conversion...

Practical, common-sense, accessible philosophy. According to Wikipedia: "William James (1842 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher trained as a medical doctor. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience...

The book “An Abolition Reader,” contains five complete manuscripts that are essential to understanding the abolitionist movement in the United States and in England: “Abolition Fanaticism in New York,” by Frederick Douglass “The Abolition of Slavery The Right of the Government...

Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of poems by William Blake. It appeared in two phases. A few first copies were printed and illuminated by William Blake himself in 1789; five years later he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titled Songs of Innocence and of Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.

Dickens Adolphus William Ward, english historian and man of letters (1837-1924) This ebook presents «Dickens», from Adolphus William Ward. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- PREFACE -03-...