Widely acclaimed as one of the finest books ever written on race and class divisions in America, this powerful novel reflects the forces of poverty, injustice, and hopelessness that continue to shape society.
Black Boy is a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. An enduring story of one young man's coming of age during a particular time and place, Black Boy remains a seminal text in our history about what it means to be a man, black, and Southern in America.
Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tell the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom. In the decaying city, besieged by an unnamed epidemic, he becomes obsessed wit…
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ' For, said he, there never was r is there one chaste woman upon the face of earth. ' A collection of Persian, Arabian and Indian tales dating from the 9th century, Sir Richard Burton's most well-kwn translation of Arabian Nights brings together ancient folklore and stories passed down from generation to generati…
There once was a very hungry little hen, and she ate and ate, and grew and grew, and the more she ate, the more she grew. Up on the hill lives a cunning fox. He watches the hen every day and thinks, "If I wait just one more day, the hen will be even bigger." Then one day he can't wait any longer...
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