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Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted by Frances E. W. Harper
Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Books on Literature and Drama Ser.
The daughter of a wealthy Mississippi planter, Iola Leroy led a life of comfort and privilege, never guessing at her mixed-race ancestry -- until her father died and a treacherous relative sold her into slavery. This stirring tale of life during the Civil War and Reconstruction traces a young woman's st ...Show more
Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
Category: No Category | Series: Dover Books on Literature and Drama Ser.
First published nearly 70 years ago, this masterpiece is regarded as one of the most influential science fiction novels of the 20th century. Olaf Stapledon creates a history of the evolution of humankind over the next two billion years, and has lots of it right It's so vast; it brings the concept of tim ...Show more
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo; Charles E. Wilbour (Translator); James K. Robinson (Abridged by)
Category: No Category | Series: Dover Books on Literature and Drama Ser.
Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mista ...Show more
The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton
Category: No Category | Series: Dover Books on Literature and Drama Ser.
The Napoleon of Notting Hillby Gilbert Keith ChestertonThe Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly-unchanged London in 1984.Though the novel deals with the future, it concentrates not on technology nor on totalitarian government but on a government where ...Show more
Tremendous Trifles by G. K. Chesterton
Category: No Category | Series: Dover Books on Literature and Drama Ser.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC (29 May 1874 - 14 June 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox". Time magazine has observed of his writing style: "Whene ...Show more
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