The Sport of the Gods
10 best books like The Sport of the Gods (Paul Laurence Dunbar): Winesburg, Ohio, The Souls of Black Folk, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, A Lesson Before Dying, The Wednesday Wars, The Marrow of Tradition, A Voyage to Arcturus, Phantastes, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy, Our Nig
| Author | Sherwood Anderson |
| ISBN | 0192839772 |
zut, alors! i don't even know where to begin. i had such a complicated reaction to this book. am i the only person who didn't find this depressing?? this book is life - it is tender and gentle and melancholy and real. not everything works out according to plan here, but what ever does? that's not necessarily...
This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently...
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
| Author | G.K. Chesterton |
| ISBN | 0375757910 |
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately,...
| Author | Ernest J. Gaines |
| ISBN | 0375702709 |
A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university,...
| Author | Gary D. Schmidt |
| ISBN | 0618724834 |
In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero. The Wednesday Wars is a wonderfully witty and compelling story about a teenage boy’s mishaps and adventures over the course of the 1967–68 school year in Long Island, New York.
Meet Holling Hoodhood,...
| Author | Charles W. Chesnutt |
| ISBN | 0140186867 |
Things they didn't teach you in American History
I consider myself fortunate to have gone to segregated schools in the Jim Crow South of the 1950's,thanks to teachers who taught us many of the things that were missing from the approved text books. The text books in the Virginia schools would...
| Author | David Lindsay |
| ISBN | 0803280041 |
A stunning achievement in speculative fiction, A Voyage to Arcturus has inspired, enchanted, and unsettled readers for decades. It is simultaneously an epic quest across one of the most unusual and brilliantly depicted alien worlds ever conceived, a profoundly moving journey of discovery into...
C.S. Lewis said that upon reading this astonishing 19th-century fairy tale he "had crossed a great frontier," and numerous others both before and since have felt similarly.
In MacDonald's fairy tales, both those for children and (like this one) those for adults, the "fairy land" clearly...
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
| Author | Carol Anderson |
| ISBN | 1635571375 |
From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, the startling--and timely--history of voter suppression in America, with a foreword by Senator Dick Durbin.
In her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that...
| Author | Harriet E. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0142437778 |
Our Nig is the tale of a mixed-race girl, Frado, abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father. Frado becomes the servant of the Bellmonts, a lower-middle-class white family in the free North, while slavery is still legal in the South, and suffers numerous abuses in their household....
A beautiful new edition of this beloved poet's first collection, originally published in 1926 when he was just twenty-four.
From the opening "Proem" (prologue poem) he offers in this first book-"I am a Negro: / Black as night is black, / Black the depths of my Africa"-Hughes spoke directly, intimately,...
| Author | T.H. Breen |
| ISBN | 0195032063 |
A really interesting book, though I'm not sure it doesn't suffer from most of the problems of like microhistories in some way? I would love to have seen this on a more macro-scale, though I'm not sure if the documentation is there (and this is my problem with early America as a field, not necessarily with...
Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692
| Author | Richard Godbeer |
| ISBN | 0195161300 |
The Salem witch hunt of 1692 is among the most infamous events in early American history; however, it was not the only such episode to occur in New England that year. Escaping Salem reconstructs the "other witch hunt" of 1692 that took place in Stamford, Connecticut. Concise and accessible, the book...
