‘History’ Category




The Original Classic UNCLE TOM’S CABIN [Illustrated]

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

Includes Dynamic Chapter Linking For Easy Navigation Plus IllustrationsUncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman.Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female ...

Gulliver’s Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede ...

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Sunday, October 9th, 2011

The hidden history of Wall Street and the White House comes down to a single, powerful, quintessentially American concept: confidence. Both centers of power, tapping brazen innovations over the past three decades, learned how to manufacture it. Until August 2007, when that confidence finally began to ...

War and Peace (Part 1 of 3)

Monday, September 5th, 2011

A new version -- the one Tolstoy originally intended, but has been hitherto unpublished -- of Russia's most famous novel; with a different ending, fewer digressions and an altered view of Napoleon -- it's time to look afresh at one of the world's favourite books. 'War and Peace' is ...

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester.The loneliness and cruelty of Jane's childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. But after ...

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Edited, with an Introduction, by R.J. Wilson List Price: $ 6.50 Price: [wpramaprice asin="1936041316"] [wpramareviews asin="1936041316"] Related posts: Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Bedford Books in American History) Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography (Christian Audio) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Dover Thrift Editions) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Reviews

The Scarlet Letter (Wadsworth Classics)

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

In colonial New England, Hester Prynne is forced to publicly lead a life of sin. A symbolic tale of honor, revenge, and guilt, THE SCARLETT LETTER reveals how it was to be an outcast in puritan society. List Price: $ 18.95 Price: [wpramaprice asin="0534521444"] [wpramareviews asin="0534521444"] Related posts: THE SCARLET LETTER ($1 Uplifting Classics) The ...

Chasing Eden (Eden Trilogy 1)

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

Modern-day Iraq: During a raging sandstorm in a war zone, army chaplain Jaime Richards is shocked to be reunited with her old friend Adara Dunbar--and devastated when, in the midst of an ambush, a black-robed man murders Adara in cold blood. But not before she delivers a final message to ...