In this series of essays first published in 1920, the noted historian presents his ideas on the role of the frontier in shaping the American experience. The Frontier in American…

In the preparation of this little work the writer has kept one end in view, viz.: To make it serviceable for those for whom it is intended, that is, for…

Author: Alexandre DumasPublisher: Independently PublishedGenre: Fiction HistoryPages: 564ISBN: 9798442964707

A diary style narrative of an exploration of Somalia. PDF (firstfootstepsin01burtuoft.pdf) is Vol. 6 of 1894 memorial edition–Vol. 1 of 2 of An exploration of Harar

Author: Andrew LangPublisher: Independently PublishedGenre: Fiction HistoryPages: 260ISBN: 9781434114587

Author: Joseph ConradPublisher: Independently PublishedGenre: British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author) Fiction, science fiction, generalPages: 202ISBN: 9781674844992

Harriet Beecher Stowe's second antislavery novel was written partly in response to the criticisms of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by both white Southerners and black abolitionists. In Dred (1856), Stowe…

'And Mr. Joseph Walters is going to stay the night?' said the smooth, clean-shaven man to his companion, an individual not of the most charming appearance, who had chosen to…

American Notes was the result of the author's five-month trip to America in 1842. Dickens's travelogue includes the glitter of Boston; a Broadway swarming with hogs; a gruesome penitentiary in…

**A Son of the Sun** is a 1912 novel by Jack London. It is set in the South Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century and consists of eight…

After four years in England, fifteen-year-old Vincent Wingfield, who supports slavery but not brutality toward slaves, returns to Virginia and serves courageously under Lee and Jackson through many of the…

Set in south-west Scotland in the immediate aftermath of the 1707 Union, The Black Dwarf was intended to be a story about the first, abortive, Jacobite uprising of 1708. Instead…