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The Sport of the Gods
- Author: Dunbar Paul Laurence
- Genre: African American
One of the five novels, and the last one, by seminal African American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Paul Laurence Dunbar. The book is a metaphor, telling the story of an African-American family, which proceeds its way from well-being to imprisonment and degradation. Displaced, they struggle to survive in early Harlem. Powerful writing, profound in its message, and vivid details recount the effect city life has of African Americans.
on the plantation a story of a georgia boys adventures during the war
- Author: Harris Joel Chandler
- Genre: African American
This book is one of the 200 most recommended, famous and most valued for a reader in the Confederation. It is also for those who carry out some researches, connected with the history and also for people who collects information related with America. The author - Richard Barksdale Harwell – comments that it is nothing but an autobiography piece of composition and no one should look out something else in it. But of course the reader should be attentive and pick out some facts to produce one’s own opinion and to sift facts from fiction.
the goodness of st rocque and other stories
- Author: alice ruth moore
- Genre: African American
At this particular picnic, however, there had been bitterness of spirit. Theophile was Manuela's own especial property, and Theophile had proven false. He had not danced a single waltz or quadrille with Manuela, but had deserted her for Claralie, blonde and petite. It was Claralie whom Theophile had rowed out on the lake; it was Claralie whom Theophile had gallantly led to dinner. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Great orations by Clay, Fox, Gladstone, Lincoln, O'Connell, Phillips, Pitt, Webster, and others
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- Genre: African American
Lord Chatham on the American stamp act.--Henry Grattan on the Declaration of Irish rights.--William Pitt on the slave-trade.--John Philpot Curran on the trial of Archibald Hamilton Rowan.--Charles James Fox on the French overtures for peace.--Daniel O'Connell on the recovery of Catholic rights.--Daniel Webster. The Bunker Hill monument.--Henry Clay in defence of the American system.--Richard Lalor Sheil on the Irish municipal bill.--John Bright on the foreign policy of England.--Wendell Phillips. Toussaint L'Ouverture.--Henry Ward Beecher. Union and emancipation.--Abraham Lincoln. The Gettysburg address. Second inaugural address.--Lord Beaconsfield on the principles of the conservative party.--William Ewart Gladstone. Domestic and foreign affairs.--James Gillespie Blaine. James Abram Garfield
France in the nineteenth century, 1830-1890
- Author: Latimer, Elizabeth Wormeley, 1822-1904
- Genre: African American
Includes index 26
Six Centuries of English Poetry
- Author: Baldwin James
- Genre: African American
From Preface: "There is but one study more interesting than the history of literature, and that is the study of literature itself. That the former should often be mistaken for the latter is scarcely to be wondered at when we consider the intimate and almost indivisible relationship existing between them. Yet, in truth, they are as capable of separate consideration as are music and the history of music. Anglo-Saxon Poetry. Any careful investigation of the history of English poetry would naturally begin at a point of time some six or seven hundred years earlier than that of Chaucer. From such investigation we should learn that even as early as the ninth century-perhaps, indeed, the eighth-there were in England some composers of verse in the Anglo-Saxon tongue; that the songs of these poets were chiefly of religion or of war, and that being written in a language very different from our modern English they can scarcely be considered as belonging properly to our literature; that among them, however, is a noble poem, "Beowulf," the oldest epic of any modern people, which was probably sung or recited by pagan minstrels long before it was written down in permanent form; that, after the conquest of England by the Normans, the early language of the The Transition Period.English people underwent a long and tedious process of transition,-a blending, in a certain sense, with the Latinized and more polished tongue of their conquerors,-and that the result was the language which we now call English and are proud to claim as our own; that it was about three hundred years after the Norman Conquest, namely, in 1362, that this new tongue was officially recognized and authorized to be used in the courts at law throughout the land; and that about the same time Geoffrey Chaucer composed and wrote his first poems. We should learn, moreover, that, during the transition period mentioned above, there were many attempts at writing poetry, resulting in the production of tedious metrical romances (chiefly translated from the French) and interminable rhyming chronicles, pleasing, of course, to the people of that time, but wholly devoid of poetic [5]excellence and unspeakably dull to modern readers; that these poems, so called, were little better than rhymed doggerels, written in couplets of eight-syllabled lines and having for their subjects the miraculous deeds of saints and heroes and the occurrence of supernatural or impossible phenomena; that the composers of these metrical romances and chronicles, although giving free rein to the imagination, were utterly destitute of poetic fancy and hence produced no true poetry; that, nevertheless, some writer was now and then inspired by a flash of real poetic fire, producing a few lines of remarkable freshness and beauty,-little lyrics shining forth like gems in the great mass of verbiage and rubbish and foretelling the glorious possibilities which were to be realized in the future."
Odes on Washington, Lincoln and freedom with the American patriot's song.
- Author: Blanchard, W. S
- Genre: African American
Pamphlet Below title: "Clarum et venerabile nomen" and "Dulce et decori est pro patrie mori!" "Dedicated to the American people, to be read on the annual return of the birth-days of those illustrions patriot statesmen, as humble tribute to their memory." 18
On the plantation; a story of a Georgia boy's adventures during the war
- Author: Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908
- Genre: African American
Published at London, under title, "A plantation printer."
American patriots and statesmen, from Washington to Lincoln, revealed in the letters, addresses, state papers and other writings of Benjamin Franklin, Cotton Mather ... and many others 3
- Author: Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943, ed
- Genre: African American
v. 1. Patriotism of the colonies, 1492-1774.--v. 2. Patriotism of the revolution and Constitution, 1775-1789.--v. 3. Patriotism of the early union, 1789-1820.--v. 4. Patriotism of the East and West, 1820-1845.--v. 5. Patriotism of the North and South, 1846-1861
Washington, Webster and Lincoln : selections for the college entrance English requirements
- Author: Denney, Joseph Villiers, 1862-1935
- Genre: African American
Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-211) Speech at Independence Hall -- First Inaugural Address -- Letter to Horace Greeley -- Speech at Gettysburg --Second Inaugural Address -- Last public address / Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln / "The Spectator." Oakleaf, J. Lincoln bibliography Copy 1 and 2: [2] p. of the publisher's advertisements on first prelim. p. and first prelim p. verso Copy 1 and 2: Bound in cloth Copy 2: Handwritten signature in ink on flyleaf: Dorothy Smith