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This is volume is a collection of 50 of de Maupassant's short stories. Summary by James K. White.

The Negro Problem

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Various

This is a collection of essays, edited by Booker T. Washington, representative of what historians have characterized as "racial uplift …

Violets And Other Tales

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Alice Dunbar Nelson

This is a collection of the author's short stories and poems where she writes about the collective experience of African American women, and…

Mardi Vol. 2

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Herman Melville

Mardi is Melville's first purely fictional work. In it he contemplates man's beliefs, and questions whether or not one faith has value over …

White Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War

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Herman Melville

This is a tale based on Melville's experiences aboard the USS United States from 1843 to 1844. It comments on the harsh and brutal realities…

The Marrow of Tradition

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt

In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the ra…

Redburn: His First Voyage

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Herman Melville

Melville wrote of some of his earliest experiences at sea in the story of Wellingborough Redburn, a wet-behind-the-ears youngster whose head…

Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839

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Frances Anne Kemble and Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble

Fanny Kemble was a British actress who married mega-plantation owner, Pierce Butler of Georgia. During her marriage she kept journals of eve…

The Story of the Barbary Corsairs

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Stanley Lane-Poole

A history of the pirating activities along and around the "Barbary coast" between the 15th and 19th centuries, from the time of th…

Marion, the Story of an Artist's Model

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Onoto Watanna

In this Asian/Canadian perspective on "foreignness," Marion (the protagonist) eventually leaves the cruelty of racial discriminati…

The House Behind the Cedars

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt

In this, Chesnutt's first novel, he tells the tragic story of love set against a backdrop of racism, miscegenation and “passing” during the …

The Colonel's Dream

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt

In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former st…

Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun

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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

This memoirs chronicles Madame Vigée Lebrun's childhood and the early discovery of her talent, the fortuitous break that introduced h…

From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom

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Lucy Ann Delaney

In From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom Delaney tells the story of how she was born into slavery of her mother--a fr…

Iola Leroy

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Frances E. W. Harper

This is the story of Iola Leroy, a free-born, mixed-race woman who passed as white. Her true racial identity eventually discovered, she was …

The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, Volume 1

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Robert Paltock

This is a story about a Cornish man who becomes stranded on an island and survives much like Robinson Crusoe did. Although he finds enough t…

South American Jungle Tales

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Horacio Quiroga

The stories in South American Jungle Tales center on the relationships between people and the different creatures Quiroga came into contact …

The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim …

The Man-Wolf

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Émile Erckmann

"The Man-Wolf" is a 38,000 word novella that appears in the English language collection of short stories entitled, The Man-Wolf an…

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

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James Weldon Johnson

Johnson's only novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, was originally published anonymously in 1912. It is a fictional novel written …

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