William Brown: 127 books
by Wells Brown,William
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
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Three Great African-American Novels
The Heroic Slave, Clotel and Our Nig
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
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...
by William Hill Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
William Hill Brown (1765-1793) was an American poet, dramatist and novelist who anonymously published "The Power of Sympathy", considered to be the first American novel. The son of a prominent clockmaker, Brown received his education at a Boston boy's school. His literary spark and encouragement came...
by William Wells Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
William Wells Brown, the subject of this narrative, was born a slave in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1834 he escaped from a steamboat in Cincinnati and found shelter at a Quaker family. In 1849 he started a journey through Europe, of which this book tells us. Brown is also known as the author of "Clotel",...
Sacred Sense
Discovering the Wonder of God's Word and World
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
All too often Scripture is read only to find answers to life’s perplexing questions, to prove a theological point, or to formulate doctrine. But William Brown argues that if read properly, what the Bible does most fundamentally is arouse a sacred sense of life-transforming wonder.
In this...
Fantastic Stories Presents: Fantasy Super Pack #1
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com present thirty-two wonderful tales of fantasy in this completely revised second edition text. More than seven hundred and fifty pages for your reading pleasure. Escape today! 'Immortal' by Shariann Lewitt; 'The Thing in the Attic' by James Blish;...
Wealthy Dad Classic Collection: What The Rich Read About Money - That The Poor And Middle Class Do Not!
Think and Grow Rich, The Way to Wealth, The Science of Getting Rich, The Art of Money Getting...
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
This ebook is a collection of 21 classic self-help works about success, money and good financial behaviour. Below is the complete list of works included: 01. Benjamin Franklin - The Way to Wealth 02. Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich 03. Wallace D. Wattles - The Science of Getting Rich 04. Charles...
Clotel
Or, the President's Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
William Wells Brown's Clotel or, The President's Daughter is often considered the first novel by an African-American. When the book was published, Brown himself was legally the property of someone else within the United States, having escaped from slavery in Kentucky when he was younger. In this story...
by William Hill Brown, Hannah Foster
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
American novelist William Hill Brown wrote during the eighteenth century and is credited with writing the first American novel, "The Power of Sympathy." Brown used his work to teach women the dangers of seduction and passion, attempting to lead them toward morality and propriety. The novel follows the...
The Faces Behind the Chains: Thousands of Recorded Interviews, Memoirs & Life Stories of Former Slaves
Including Historical Documents & Legislative Progress of Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created collection of thousands memoirs & life stories of former slaves. "The Faces Behind the Chains" strongly conveys the circumstances and brutal reality of a slave's life to a reader. This unique collection consists of the most influential...
Ending Poverty in America
How to Restore the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
**An “**engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly).
Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the...
Harvard Classics Volume 42
English Poetry 3: Tennyson To Whitman
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2017
Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)
by Brown,William Wells
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
Published in 1867, William Wells Brown's Clotelle; or The Colored Heroine confronts racism and Afro-American slavery, which are presented as the foundation of a nation that prides itself on justice and democracy. The events play out in the background of the Civil War. A slave girl, Clotelle, is on a quest to save her daughter, whose father is her previous owner.
Our Prince of Scribes
Writers Remember Pat Conroy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In...