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Hallmark Playhouse
Host James Hilton introduces a touching story starring Ethel Barrymore about an elderly mother who plans on convincing her son that she belo…
Meet Mr. Mulliner
A collection of short stories, originally published in periodicals, featuring the character Mr. Mulliner. - Summary by James Hutchisson
Men Without Women
Hemingway's second collection of short fiction, first published in 1927, including many of his best-known stories, including "Hills Lik…
Free
Theodore Dreiser's first collection of short fiction, published in 1918. Dreiser was known primarily as a novelist (Sister Carrie, An Americ…
Hawthorne
A brief biographical sketch and critical analysis of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the preeminent writers of the nineteenth-centu…
Thirty Years A Slave
Louis Hughes was born a slave near Charlottesville, Virginia to a white father and a black slave woman. Throughout his life he worked mostly…
White Jacket
This is a tale based on Melville's experiences aboard the USS United States from 1843 to 1844. It comments on the harsh and brutal realities…
The Atrocities of the Pirates
In 1822, Aaron Smith, a young English seaman, was taken captive by Cuban pirates when his ship was boarded en route from Jamaica to England.…
A Book of Myths
This is a collection of myths--mostly Greek with a smattering of others from the east--written in a clear and easy-to-read style. Lang compl…
Redburn
Melville wrote of some of his earliest experiences at sea in the story of Wellingborough Redburn, a wet-behind-the-ears youngster whose head…
The Life and Adventures of Alexander Selkirk
This work was the true story of Alexander Selkirk (1676 to December 13, 1721), a Scottish sailor who was employed in a number of different t…
The Wife of His Youth
Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim …
The Marrow of Tradition
In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the ra…
The House Behind the Cedars
In this, Chesnutt's first novel, he tells the tragic story of love set against a backdrop of racism, miscegenation and “passing” during the …
My Southern Home
William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave; his father was a white man who never ack…
Iola Leroy
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 …
Toussaint L’Ouverture
François-Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743-1803) rose to fame in 1791 during the Haitian struggle for independence. In this revol…
The Viaticum and Other Stories
This is volume is a collection of 50 of de Maupassant's short stories. Summary by James K. White.
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb
Henry Walton Bibb was born a slave. His father was white although his identity was not positively known. Bibb was separated from his mother …
The Negro Problem
This is a collection of essays, edited by Booker T. Washington, representative of what historians have characterized as "racial uplift …