William Wells: 79 books
by William Wells Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
William Wells Brown, the subject of this narrative, was born a slave in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1834 he escaped from a steamboat in Cincinnati and found shelter at a Quaker family. In 1849 he started a journey through Europe, of which this book tells us. Brown is also known as the author of "Clotel",...
by William Wells
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
1940s Espionage and Love story with a twist.A spy is loose in the war department and a young man from MI6 is sent to find him. His link back to MI6 is a younglady called Anne with whom he finds himself in a strange relationship.
by William Wells Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
The Narrative of William W. Brown ranks alongside Frederick Douglass' memoirs as an influential force in the abolition movement and a lasting testimonial to the injustice of slavery. The simple, straightforward style of Brown's Narrative offers a sincere and moving account of life in bondage, recounted...
by William Wells Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Clotel
or, The President’s Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
This novel explores slavery's destructive effects on African-American families, the difficult lives of American mulattoes or mixed-race people, and the "degraded and immoral condition of the relation of master and slave in the United States of America." It is a tragic mulatto story about a woman named Currer and her daughters Althesa and Clotel, fathered by Thomas Jefferson.
by William Wells Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
MORE than two hundred years have elapsed since the first cargo of slaves was landed on the banks of the James River, in the colony of Virginia, from the West coast of Africa. From the introduction of slaves in 1620, down to the period of the separation of the Colonies from the British Crown, the number...
by William Wells Brown, Hannah Webster Foster
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1996
Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, Brown’s The Power of Sympathy (1789) and Foster’s The Coquette (1797) were two of the earliest novels published in the United States. Both novels reflect the eighteenth-century preoccupation with the role of women as safekeepers of the young country’s morality.
by William Wells Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print.
by William Wells Newell
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...
by Fanny D. Bergen, Editor, William Wells Newell
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents and Notes
CONTENTS
Introduction
I. Babyhood
Baptism. — Physiognomy. — Introduction to the World. — First Actions. — Various.
II. Childhood
Asseveration. — Challenge. — Fortune. — Friendship. — Mythology. — Punishment. — Sport....
by Robert Ervin Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, G. G. Pendarves
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Epic romances, fearsome dragons and alien worlds lie between the pages of this volume. Containing more than 35 stories from the early masters of fantasy literature, the narratives here transport the reader to alternate worlds where magic abounds, cosmic terrors lie around the corner and intrepid heroes...
by Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Pushkin, Algernon Blackwood
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2019
CONTENTS: ALEXANDER PUSHKIN 1. The Queen of Spades ALGERNON BLACKWOOD: 2. Confession 3. S. O. S. 4. The Wings of Horus ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 5. B. 24 ARTHUR O. FRIEL: 6. The Spider 7. The Vulture ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH: 8. Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman 9. The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands 10. The...
The Greatest British Classics Ever Written
Diary of a Nobody, Sons and Lovers, Wuthering Heights, Alice in Wonderland, Heart of Darkness, Ulysses, Arms and the Man, The War of the Worlds, Howards End, Jude the Obscure, Hamlet…
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
This meticulously edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Macbeth (Shakespeare) Paradise Lost (John Milton) Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) The History of...
Classic Tales of Horror
A Collection of the Greatest Horror Tales of All-Time: At the Mountains of Madness, Carmilla, The Great God Pan, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Invisible Man, The Lair of the White Worm, The Masque of the Red Death, The Vampyre
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2018
Ranging from the macabre to the supernatural, the collection of stories found in Classic Tales of Horror contains some of the most influential horror and dark fiction books of all-time.
Included in this classic horror anthology are:
At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft
The Lair...