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Looking Backward - 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy; Cecelia Tichi (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: American Library
Edward Bellamy's prophetic novel about a young Boston man who is mysteriously transported from the 19th to the 21st century--from a world of war and want to a world of peace and plenty. The year is 2000. The place: Utopian America. The hero: anyone who has ever longed for escape to a better life... ...Show more
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Milton Stern (Editor, Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: American Library
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables is a classic of American literature, written by one of the country's greatest writers. First published in 1851, the book is set in a mansion not unlike his cousin's many-gabled home in Salem, Massachusetts, which Hawthorne visited regularly.Caroline O. ...Show more
The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: The\Penguin American Library
One of the great classics on democracy, "Rights of Man" was published in England in 1791 as a vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government. In direct, forceful prose, Paine defends popular rights, national independence, revolutionary war, and economic growth - ...Show more
Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin American Library
Published in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel was a powerful indictment of slavery in America. Describing the many trials and eventual escape to freedom of the long-suffering, good-hearted slave Uncle Tom, it aimed to show how Christian love can overcome any human cruelty. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" has rem ...Show more
Varieties of Religious Experience by William James; Martin E. Marty (Editor, Introduction by); William James
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin American Library
The Varieties of Religious Experience came about as the result of William James's legendary lecture series at The University of Edinburgh. It consisted of 20 Lectures, 2 courses of 10 lectures each. In this series, James examines in detail the nature of religion, expanding on pragmatism in the process. ...Show more
Walden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Category: Nature | Series: American Library
Disdainful of America's booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods near Walden Pond. Walden, the account of his stay, conveys at once a naturalist's wonder at the commonplace and a Transcendentalist's yearning for sp ...Show more
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