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The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles
Read by James K. White
Herman Melville
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles is a novella by American author Herman Melville. First published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854, it consists…
From the Darkness Cometh the Light
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Lucy Ann Delaney
In From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom Delaney tells the story of how she was born into slavery of her mother--a fr…
Iola Leroy
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Frances E. W. Harper
This is the story of Iola Leroy, a free-born, mixed-race woman who passed as white. Her true racial identity eventually discovered, she was …
Three Years In Europe
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William Wells Brown
William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave--his father a white man who never acknowl…
The Viaticum and Other Stories
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Guy de Maupassant
This is volume is a collection of 50 of de Maupassant's short stories. Summary by James K. White.
The Colonel's Dream
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt
In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former st…
Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart
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Maria W. Stewart
Maria W. Stewart was America's first black woman political writer. Between 1831 and 1833, she gave four speeches on the topics of slavery a…
The Story of the Barbary Corsairs
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Stanley Lane-Poole
A history of the pirating activities along and around the "Barbary coast" between the 15th and 19th centuries, from the time of th…
South American Jungle Tales
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Horacio Quiroga
The stories in South American Jungle Tales center on the relationships between people and the different creatures Quiroga came into contact …
Six Months In Mexico
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Nellie Bly
This is an account of Nellie Bly's travels through Mexico in 1885. The book was originally a series of individual articles that she submitte…
Bertram Cope's Year
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Henry Blake Fuller
This novel was perhaps the most daring and affirmative LGBT literature of the first two decades of the 20th century in America. In this stor…
Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent.
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Washington Irving
The Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. (1824) is a compilation of eight humorous and observational letters written by American writer, Wash…
Mardi
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Herman Melville
Mardi is Melville's first purely fictional work. In it he contemplates man's beliefs, and questions whether or not one faith has value over …
Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
This memoirs chronicles Madame Vigée Lebrun's childhood and the early discovery of her talent, the fortuitous break that introduced h…
The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins
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Robert Paltock
This is a story about a Cornish man who becomes stranded on an island and survives much like Robinson Crusoe did. Although he finds enough t…
Violets And Other Tales
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Alice Dunbar Nelson
This is a collection of the author's short stories and poems where she writes about the collective experience of African American women, and…
Marion, the Story of an Artist's Model
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Onoto Watanna
In this Asian/Canadian perspective on "foreignness," Marion (the protagonist) eventually leaves the cruelty of racial discriminati…
The Vengence of the Gods
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William Pickens
Although slavery was abolished in the United States with the ratification of the 13th Amendment on December 6, 1865, its cancerous tendrils …
The Blacker the Berry
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Wallace Thurman
An exploration into the life of young African American, Emma Lou, whose self-image is negatively impacted by the stigmas of colorism and int…
Stanton White
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Asa Zadel Hall
In this tome the Northern narrator, Harold Edson, visits the American South with his college friend, Stanton White, in order to study first …