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A record of a struggle against the forces of prejudice and fear, Turbott Wolfe is a landmark in both English and South African literature which remains timely today. Published in 1925, the wide...

an exciting and entertaining story with a twist near the end

"Just the novel to elevate these unforgettable voices."--Shelf Awareness The acclaimed author of The Secret Women and Things Past Telling returns with an engrossing historical novel about a little...

Africans and African Americans in the Holocaust.

In words that are both disturbing and intense, a collection of poetry finds the Roman poet Ovid in London, Romeo and Juliet in Florida, and vanity corrupting everything in its path from the classical...

In nineteenth-century France, parents abandoned their children in overwhelming numbers--up to 20 percent of live births in the Parisian area. The infants were left at state-run homes and were then...

This "thoroughly engaging" third novel by the author of Beetlecreek ("[a] quiet masterpiece" —Kirkus Reviews) follows a Black journalist in the 1970s whose bourgeois life is turned upside down by the...

With the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, William Burroughs abruptly brought international letters into the postmodern age. Beginning with his very early writing (including a chapter from his and...

How many people could read and write in the ancient world of the Greeks and Romans?No one has previously tried to give a systematic answer to this question. Most historians who have considered the...

Although the history of Jacobitism has been recounted by a number of historians during the last century or more, this is the first full-length biography to appear devoted to the principal literary...

1936 reist der afroamerikanische Bürgerrechtler W. E. B. Du Bois nach Deutschland. Als Kritiker des Rassismus in den USA beobachtet er das Leben in der totalitären Diktatur und die Entrechtung der...