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Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism

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John Middleton Murry


Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…

The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer

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Alice Dunbar Nelson


Ms. Pinckney says in her "Forward" to this book the following: "It is against this background of the world need that Mrs. Ali…

Fact Stranger than Fiction

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John Patterson Green


I desire, to place before the colored youth, of my class, another concrete proof of the fact that, even in the United States, where the hand…

Charles Sumner, The Scholar in Politics

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Archibald Grimké


In the two volumes assigned to him in the American Reformer Series, viz., the "Life of William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist," …

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

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Thornton Wilder


The deaths of five people resulting from the collapse of a bridge over a ravine prompts an observer to investigate the lives of the fallen a…

Scarlet Sister Mary

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Julia Peterkin


How did 1929 Pulitzer winner and white plantation mistress Julia Peterkin become a favorite of the Harlem Renaissance? According to W.E.B. D…

Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative

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Emory Holloway


"You want to know in a word the sum total of my life philosophy as I have tried to live it and as I have tried to put it in my book. I …

Black No More

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George Schuyler


Being an account of the strange and wonderful workings of science in the land of the free, A.D. 1933-1940. (Summary by author)

Historical Romance of the American Negro

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Charles H. Fowler


It was not long before the fame of the colored soldiers of America was wafted over the whole world and everywhere received by all lovers of …

The Heart of Happy Hollow

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Paul Laurence Dunbar


Happy Hollow; are you wondering where it is? Wherever Negroes colonise in the cities or villages, north or south, wherever the hod carrier, …

Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 1

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William Cabell Bruce


His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…

Special Report on Negro Domestic Service in the Seventh Ward Philadelphia

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Isabel Eaton


This paper is an attempt to give the most accurate facts obtainable bearing upon the question of colored domestic service in Philadelphia. (…

Practice of Christian and Religious Perfection, Volume 2

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Alphonsus Rodriguez


This is Volume 2 of the extensive 3-volume set written by the renowned Jesuit, Alphonsus Rodriguez. This set will help you to grow in holine…

The Man of Feeling

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Henry Mackenzie


A man of refined taste, who caught the tone of the French sentiment of his time, has, of course, pleased French critics, and has been transl…

Mr. Weston's Good Wine

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T. F. Powys


This 1927 novel describes an evening in 1923 when Mr. Weston, who is apparently a wine merchant, but is evidently God, visits the fictional …

For Your Sweet Sake

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James Ephraim Mcgirt


This work is a collection of lyric poems - Summary by Jim Locke

Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 2

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William Cabell Bruce


His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…

The Spirit of the Town

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Tod Robbins


A novel presentation in fiction form of the impulse and desire which mold the lives of men -- From the title page

Experimental Psychology Department

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Larry Weiskrantz and Oliver Braddick


University of Oxford Podcasts

Implant

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Michael Wallace and Jefferey Anderson


Neurosurgeon Julia Nolan places cortical implants into the brains of field operatives to record data from their auditory and visual cortices…

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