Overview :Moscow in the middle of the seventeenth century had a distinctly apocalyptic feel. An outbreak of the plague killed half the population. A s... Read More
Overview :Originally published in 1836. Sheppard Lee, Written By Himself is a work of dark satire from the early years of the American Republic. Publi... Read More
Overview :Dive into the whimsical and macabre world of 19th-century America with Robert Montgomery Bird's "Sheppard Lee, Vol. I of 2: Written by Himse... Read More
Overview :Benjamin Franklin (1706 90) is best known as an American revolutionary politician, but he also excelled as a printer, journalist and natural... Read More
Overview :'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from sl... Read More
Overview :The "Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself", is a memoir of William Wells Brown published in 1847, which becam... Read More
Overview :The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advance... Read More
Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This ... Read More
Overview :It would be difficult, and perhaps impossible, to gather from the history and labours of any individual mind, a summary of practical wisdom ... Read More
Overview :Biography of a Sea Captain's Life, Written by Himself is the annotated diary of W.C. Flanders (1811-1891) relating the events and adventures... Read More
Overview :In an era and an area notable for badmen and gunslingers, John Wesley Hardin was perhaps the most notorious. Considered by many of his conte... Read More
Overview :Douglass' powerful account of his journey from slave, by way of determined self education, to being one of America's great statesmen and ora... Read More
Overview :A new edition of one of the most influential literary documents in American and African American history Ideal for coursework in American an... Read More
Overview :In this revealing memoir, the French general Jean Rapp recounts his experiences serving under Napoleon Bonaparte in some of the most pivotal... Read More
Overview :William Grimes (1784-1865) was the son of Benjamin Grymes, the rich owner of a plantation in King James County, Virginia, and an enslaved se... Read More
Overview :'There are many greater Quakers than Ellwood, but few more likeable' quips editor Rosemary Moore in her epilogue. Her new edition of Thomas ... Read More
Overview :Providing a vivid account of the eighteenth-century Western world through his own experiences, the Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olau... Read More