Imperium in Imperio

Author	William Shakespeare
ISBN	0743484908

Measure for Measure is among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare’s plays. In it, a duke temporarily removes himself from governing his city-state, deputizing a member of his administration, Angelo, to enforce the laws more rigorously. Angelo chooses as his first victim Claudio, condemning...

Author	James Weldon Johnson
ISBN	0809000326

James Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more than eighty years after its original anonymous publication, a classic of American fiction.

The first fictional memoir ever written by a black person, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured...

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Magda Szabó

Gina, a regény hősnője 1943-ban elbúcsúzik otthonától és azoktól, akiket szeret, mert apja beadja a híres árkodi intézetbe. A kis ötödikes gimnazistát a rideg világ, a szokatlan, kegyetlen törvények lázadásra késztetik. Ám megtud valamit, ami maradásra bírja, és...

Author	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
ISBN	1426460287

Being very desirous that one of the race so long distinguished in the cause of freedom for her intellectual worth as Mrs. Harper has had the honor of being should not at this late date in life make a blunder which might detract from her own good name I naturally proposed to await developments before deciding...

Author	Sarah Orne Jewett
ISBN	0553214985

Though not as well-known as the writers she influenced, Sarah Orne Jewett nevertheless remains one of the most important American novelists of the late nineteenth century. Published in 1884, Jewett’s first novel, A Country Doctor, is a luminous portrayal of rural Maine and a semiautobiographical...

Author	Susanna Rowson
ISBN	0195042387

Charlotte Temple, a "best seller" that went through more than 200 editions, was the most popular American novel until Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. It tells of a beautiful English girl who at the age of 15 is courted by and runs away with a British lieutenant named Montraville. Once in America,...