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Here is the story of one Black American Communist who became disillusioned with Communism and penned this cautionary tale of the perils of his experience. According to the author: "Ten years I labored in the cause of Communism. I was a dedicated "comrade." All my...
The black experience in America--starting from its origins in western Africa up to 1961--is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African American figure.The entire historical timeline of African Americans is addressed, from the Colonial period through the...
There exists, of course, few more famous figures in the field of psychology than Sigmund Freud. As the founding father of psychoanalysis, or the clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst, his impact on the field...
Napoleon I, French general, first consul (1799–1804), and emperor of the French (1804–1814/15), one of the most celebrated personages in the history of the West. He revolutionized military organization and training; and sponsored the Napoleonic Code, the prototype of...
The 1930s in Philadelphia on the corner of Camac and McClellan finds you at the corner store. It is a gathering place for the neighbors as well as the six Joneses, an institution—one like that found in many neighborhoods in the 1930s. Life is exciting, full of...
First published in 1928 in the US, now public domain. 'Why did I want to mix myself up in a white folk's war? It ain't ever was any of black folks' affair'. When Jake Brown joined the World War I effort, he was treated more like a slave than a soldier. After briefly...
First published in 1926, the author recounts his experiences in the mid-1920s traveling through several countries (India, Burma, Malaya, Japan and America), and offers his observations on their people, cultures, and customs. Open-minded, keen-sighted, sometimes...
'Mr J. J. Connington is a name revered by all specialists on detective fiction' - Spectator In Clinton Driffield's second case he must tangle with a plethora of crimes including robbery, murder and a disappearance - not to mention a Family Curse, and a less than...
Sex and Repression in Savage Society first published in 1927 is the book by anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski (died 1942) considered "a famous critique of psychoanalysis, arguing that the 'Oedipus complex' described by Freud is not universal." Malinowski gives a...
The Flying Carpet is the airplane in which the author and his pilot-companion, Moye Stephens, Jr., follow a royal road to romance in the air.
A panoramic super-adventure western tale of the early west, 1885, with Jubal Troop as the focus, one of those indefatigable hard-loving and hard fighting men, not without a certain raw power. North Dakota, Montana, Texas—cattlehand, rancher, rawhider, miner, trader—and...
Paul I. Wellman has penned a powerful novel about the long friendship and secret adventures of Andrew Jackson and Sam Houston—two titans of America’s most colorful era. This is a novel of “Old Hickory”, of his Indian-fighting days (when he met Houston), his battle that...
Tales from the world of gamblers and small-time crooks who inhabited the world of the speakeasies during Prohibition. The Prohibition era comes alive in these comic tales featuring dames (dolls, babes, broads, or ever-loving wives) and guys (players, gamblers, citizens...
A woman who is convinced her husband is trying to murder her finds herself widowed, confined to a hospital bed, and trying to prove she's not a cold-blooded killer. When her abusive husband Fred is fatally shot and her six-year-old son Billy disappears, wealthy Anne...
Nan has written her brothers and sisters that they are invited (and must come) home for Christmas. They had not all been home together for years. No spouses or children . Just the five siblings. They really didn't want to go, it did not sound like fun. The story of a...
The Book of Small is a collection of thirty-six word sketches in which Emily Carr relates anecdotes about her life as a young girl in the frontier town of Victoria. She notes: “There were a great many things that I only half understood, such as saloons and the Royal...
"Mr Weston's Good Wine" first published in 1927 by T. F. Powys (died 1953) is the unusual tale of the struggle between the forces of good and evil in a small Dorset village. Its action is limited to one winter's evening when time stands still and the bitter-sweet gift...
This is a story of two middle-class families living in adjoining houses in a West-of-England town. In one house lives a priggish individual, his seemingly submissive wife and their three daughters who share in a varied degree the characteristics of their parents—a...
'The Three Godfathers' by Peter B. Kyne is a novel about three bank robbers who become godfathers to a newborn child after encountering a woman in labor in the wilderness. Their journey to get the baby back to civilization is fraught with danger, as they battle thirst...
Hannah Mole is a middle-aged housekeeper/companion who starts at a new household, headed by Reverend Corder. All the occupants of the house, each of whom have their own quirks and goals are affected by Hannah's presence in good and not so good ways. Book was the winner...
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