Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, with "A True Tale of Slavery" by John S. Jacobs (John Harvard Library) by Jean Fagan Yellin $18.00
This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John Jacobs’s short slave narrative, A True Tale of Slavery, published in London in 1861, adds a brother’s perspective to Harriet Jacobs’s autobiography. It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John...
How to Speak and Write Correctly by Public Domain Books $0.00
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by $2.80
The logline is being kept under wraps, although it is known Sherlock Holmes, and his longtime trusted associate, Dr. Watson, will face off against Moriarty.
Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 (Dodo Press) by Dodo Press $18.99
Large Format for easy reading. Volume one of his complete works in five volumes from one of the leaders of the American Romantics, best known for his poems and his tales of the macabre.
Huckleberry Finn (Unabridged Classics in Audio) by Thomas Becker $34.95
Wild child Huck has to get away. His violent drunk of a father is back in town again, raising Cain. He won't rest until he has Huck's money. So the enterprising boy fakes his own death and sets out in search of adventure and freedom. Teaming up with Jim, an escaped slave with a price on his head, the two fugitives go on the run, travelling down the wide Mississippi River. But Huck finds himself...
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by 1stWorld Library $33.95
You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath nought to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you. Clap to the leaves and go no farther than this, for I tell you plainly that if you go farther you will be scandalized by seeing...
Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 2 (Dodo Press) by Dodo Press $13.99
Large Format for easy reading. Volume two of his complete works in five volumes from one of the leaders of the American Romantics, best known for his poems and his tales of the macabre.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot Mysteries) by 1stWorld Library $28.95
The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world-wide notoriety which attended it, I have been asked, both by my friend Poirot and the family themselves, to write an account of the whole story. This, we trust, will effectually silence the sensational rumours which still persist. I will...
Walden by Empire Books $11.49
The Jungle by Replica Books $29.95
Upton Sinclair's most famous novel, "The Jungle" is the fictitious account of a family of Lithuanian immigrants living in Chicago and working in the Chicago's Union Stock Yards. While it is a work of fiction it brought to light the horrible working conditions of the Chicago meat-packing industry at the beginning of the 20th century. Sinclair, a noted socialist, showed the vast socio-economic...