Based on the author's own experiences, as well as oral and written sources, in the South Seas, [this] story of two runaway sailors held captive by the Typees is a vivid portrait of Polynesian life.-Back cover.
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Publisher's description: Almost from the time of its publication in 1846, Melville's first book, based on his own travels in the South Seas, has been recognized as a classic in the literature of travel and adventure. Although initially rejected as too fantastic to be true, Typee…
An assortment of perverse characters act out this dramatic story of the kidnapping a Mississippi debutante.
Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with the poetry and vigor of the American people, [this] story about a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi was the first great novel to speak in a truly American voice. Influencing subsequent generations of writers -- from …
A nineteenth-century boy, floating down the Mississippi on a raft with a runaway slave, becomes involved with a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt, who mistakes him for Tom. "The text of this new scholarly edition of Adventures of Huc…
Frado, a mixed-race girl abandoned by her white mother after the death of her black father, takes a job as a servant to a lower middle-class white family in the North, only to encounter a world of abuse and abandonment.
An anthology of short stories by turn-of-the-century women writers.
This is an anthology of short stories which captures the diverse range of concerns confronting women writers of the turn of the twentieth century.