Results for: books tagged ‘Slavery’
Salt: Earl Lovelace
Founding Brothers: Joseph J. Ellis
Founding Brothers is an illuminating, Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic: Adams, Burr, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and Washington. During the 1790s ... More
Omeros: Derek Walcott
The Bastard Boy: James Wilson
Ned Gudgeon wakes to find himself in a cell. He has no idea where he is or how he came to be there, but - seeing pen and paper - ... More
The Amalgamation Polka: Stephen Wright
With The Amalgamation Polka, Stephen Wright extends his previous accomplishments with a Civil War novel unlike any other.Born in 1844 in bucolic upstate New York, Liberty Fish is the son ... More
A Sportsman's Sketches: Volume 2: Ivan Turgenev
A Sportsman’s Sketches was a collection of short stories written by Ivan Turgenev in 1852. As Turgenev’s first major piece of writing they brought him instant recognition. Based on his ... More
A Sportsman's Sketches: Volume 1: Ivan Turgenev
A Sportsman’s Sketches was a collection of short stories written by Ivan Turgenev in 1852. Known also as Sketches from a Hunter’s Album or The Hunting Sketches, the stories were Turgenev’s ... More
Lincoln: Jan Morris
When Jan Morris first visited the United States, she was overwhelmed (and irritated) by the national obsession with Abraham Lincoln: the homespun myth of the awkward six-foot-four country boy who ... More
The White Castle: Orhan Pamuk
The first novel to appear in English by Nobel Prize-winning Orhan Pamuk, originally published in 1990.A young Italian scholar is captured by pirates in Italy and put up for auction ... More
Viva South America!: Oliver Balch
A passionate, lively and engaging journey through South America, brimming with vivid detail and human stories. More
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