Clotel: or, The President's Daughter
6 best books like Clotel: or, The President's Daughter (William Wells Brown): The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses, A Drifting Life, In the Shadow of No Towers, The Dyer's Hand, Evangeline and Other Poems, Marx: A Very Short Introduction
The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
Author | Dan Carlin |
ISBN | 0008340927 |
From the creator of the wildly popular podcast comes Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History: History at the Extremes.
Dan Carlin has created a new way to think about history. His award-winning podcast is revered for its unique blend of high drama, enthralling narration, and Twilight Zone-style...
Author | Yoshihiro Tatsumi |
ISBN | 1897299745 |
The epic autobiography of a manga master
Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye—originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever—the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro...
In the Shadow of No Towers
Author | Art Spiegelman |
ISBN | 0670915416 |
Catastrophic, world-altering events like the September 11 attacks on the United States place the millions of us who experience them on the "fault line where world history and personal history collide." Most of us, however, cannot document that intersection with the force, compression, and poignancy...
Author | W.H. Auden |
ISBN | 0679724842 |
In this volume, W. H. Auden assembled, edited, and arranged the best of his prose writing, including the famous lectures he delivered as Oxford Professor of Poetry. The result is less a formal collection of essays than an extended and linked series of observations—on poetry, art, and the observation...
Author | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
ISBN | 0486282554 |
It has been said that a copy of Longfellow's narrative poem Evangeline could be found in every literate household in America in the nineteenth century. Certainly its poignant romance touched many hearts and stirred deepening interest in the Maine-born Harvard educator who, in his lifetime, would...
Author | Peter Singer |
ISBN | 0192854054 |
In Marx: A Very Short Introdution, Peter Singer identifies the central vision that unifies Marx's thought, enabling us to grasp Marx's views as a whole. He sees him as a philosopher primarily concerned with human freedom, rather than as an economist or a social scientist. In plain English, he explains...