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Twelve Men

Theodore Dreiser

Although world-famous for his novels Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt, Theodore Dreiser was also highly accomplished in journalism, autobiography, and travel writing. In 1919, having recently accepte..

Mary Barton

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester between 1839 and 1842, and deals with the difficulties faced b..

Swann's Way

Marcel Proust

Swann’s Way is one of seven books that comprise In Search of Lost Time, unique in fiction for its sustained fullness of thought and richness of characterization. Though In Search of Lost Time is satur..

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Henry Fielding

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is both a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was fi..

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Ann Radcliffe

The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe, was published in four volumes on 8 May 1794 by G. G. and J. Robinson of London. The firm paid her £500 for the manuscript. The contract is housed at the Uni..

A Black Adonis

Linn Boyd Porter

A Black Adonis is a novel by Linn Boyd Porter. Excerpts from the preface of the book:I do not know how better to use the space that the printer always leaves me in this part of the book than to r..

Aunt Phillis's Cabin

Mary H. Eastman

Aunt Phillis's Cabin by Mary Henderson Eastman is a plantation fiction novel, and is perhaps the most read anti-Tom novel in American literature. It was published by Lippincott, Grambo & Co. of Ph..

Black Rebellion

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Black Rebellion by Thomas Wentworth Higginson is a fascinating account of five slave insurrections, among them the story of the Maroons, escaped slaves in the West Indies and South America who success..