Life in the Iron Mills
By: Rebecca Harding Davis , Cecelia Tichi
3.42
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
NOTE: Includes a broad selection of historical and cultural documents plus the novella This defi…
Want to Read $ 0.99"Be just,—not like man's law, which seizes on one isolated fact, but like God's judging angel, whose clear, sad eye saw all the countless cankering days of this man's life."-Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills
"Be just,—not like man's law, which seizes on one isolated fact, but like God's judging angel, whose clear, sad eye saw all the countless cankering days of this man's life."-Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills
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1. William Wilson
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.79
Format: 26 pages, ebook
"William Wilson" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839, with a setting inspi… read more
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"Let me call myself, for the present, Willam Wilson"-Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson
"You have conquered, and I yield. Yet henceforward art thou also dead - dead to the world and its hopes. In me didst thou exist - and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly t…"-Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson
"Upon mankind at large the events of very early existence rarely leave in mature age any definite impression. All is gray shadow -- a weak and irregular remembrance -- and indistinct regathering of fe…"-Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson
2. Daisy Miller
By: Henry James
3.37
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
It was in Rome during the autumn of 1877; a friend then living there but settled now in a South les… read more
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"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."-Henry James, Daisy Miller
"In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That is not the deepest thing; there is something deeper."-Henry James, Daisy Miller
"The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her."-Henry James, Daisy Miller
"The historic atmosphere was there, certainly; but the historic atmosphere, scientifically considered, was no better than a villainous miasma"-Henry James, Daisy Miller
3. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
By: Harriet Beecher Stowe
3.91
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
The narrative drive of Stowe's classic novel is often overlooked in the heat of the controversies s… read more
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"Liberty! -- Electric word!"-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
"Some jokes are less agreeable than others"-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
"Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me."-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
"What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear."-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
4. Life in the Iron Mills
By: Rebecca Harding Davis , Cecelia Tichi
3.42
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
NOTE: Includes a broad selection of historical and cultural documents plus the novella This defi… read more
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"Be just,—not like man's law, which seizes on one isolated fact, but like God's judging angel, whose clear, sad eye saw all the countless cankering days of this man's life."-Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills
5. McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (Signet Classics)
By: Frank Norris , Eric Solomon
3.68
Format: 368 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the… read more
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"I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth."-Frank Norris, McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (Signet Classics)
6. Our Nig
By: Harriet E. Wilson , P. Gabrielle Foreman , Reginald Pitts
3.55
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Our Nig is the tale of a mixed-race girl, Frado, abandoned by her white mother after the death of t… read more
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7. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
By: Stephen Crane
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1892 Stephen Crane (1871-1900) published Maggie, Girl of the Streetsat his own expense. Consider… read more
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8. Benito Cereno
By: Herman Melville , Wyn Kelley
3.60
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
"What has cast such a shadow upon you?" "The Negro." With its intense mix of mystery, adventure, an… read more
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9. The Story of an Hour
By: Kate Chopin
4.07
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more
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"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
10. Walden
By: Henry David Thoreau
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more
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11. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
12. A White Heron
By: Sarah Orne Jewett , Douglas Alvord
3.26
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
What is an individual's responsibility to nature? Does our desire to understand the world give us t… read more
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13. Rip Van Winkle
By: Washington Irving
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
What would you do if you met the Strange Men in the mountains? Would you dare to pass the haunted t… read more
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14. Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
By: Mary Rowlandson
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In February 1676, during King Philip's War, the frontier village of Lancaster, Massachusetts, was a… read more
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15. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
16. Young Goodman Brown
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
Hawthorne's classic tale of a young Puritan's meeting with the Devil. read more
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17. Song of Myself
By: Walt Whitman
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
One of Walt Whitman's most loved and greatest poems, "Song of Myself" is an optimistic and inspirat… read more
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18. Trifles
By: Susan Glaspell
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. Her short story, "A Jury of Her Peers", was adapted fr… read more
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19. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
By: Harriet Ann Jacobs
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incid… read more
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20. The Marrow of Tradition
By: Charles W. Chesnutt
3.80
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an author, essayist and political activist whose works addresse… read more
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21. Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition
By: Walt Whitman , Malcolm Cowley
4.33
Format: None pages,
As Malcolm Cowley says in his introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass'might be called th… read more
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