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The Conan Stories - Robert E. Howard
- Author: Robert E. Howard
- Genre: Political
The Conan stories that are in the public domain.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Author: Jacobs Harriet Ann
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an outstanding book which can be considered as a bright example of a feminist literature that describes the life of a slave girl. The novel was published in 1861 by Harriet Ann Jacobs who was a slave herself and wanted to express her painful life experience and share it with other people. It was not easy for her to write this book and publish it but she did a great job possessing a good sense of the language. Harriet describes in details the tortures and all punishment that she had to go through. She believes that being a slave is terrible on default but being a slave woman is more terrible than being a slave man. She grew up a a slave and had to suffer from pursuing of her master. Later she became a lover of an unmarried children and bore several children but still officially she belonged to her master who did not want to sell her. Finally in 1850 she escaped from slavery and was trying to hide somewhere but even in northern states she could not feel safe and free. Her feelings are the basis of the book where she describes not only the tragedy of one person but the tragedy of whole families who were broken apart. The book is very touching and makes its readers think about the rights of people and their freedom.
Confessions of a Beachcomber
- Author: Banfield Edmund James
- Genre: Adventurers & Explorers
"The Confessions Of A Beachcomber" is an amazing autobiography of a man who left his career to live the simple live of a beachcomber on Dunk Island off the northern coast of Queensland in Australia. An avowed follower of Thoreau, Banfield sough as simple a life as possible and maintained that life on his tropical island for twenty-five years. He started observing the flora, fauna, and aborigines of the island. "With the aid of a good telescope and a compact pair of field glasses, birds may be studied and known far more pleasurably than as stark cabinet specimens," he writes. Banfield managed to make an impression of diving into the world he describes. Reading "The Confessions Of A Beachcomber is a real adventure! If you ever wanted to escape from modern life to something natural and simple, this book is an excellent choice!
Sir Walter Ralegh
- Author: Stebbing William
- Genre: Authors
This book tells a story of Sir Walter Ralegh. He was more than a man promoting tobacco. And he was much more than a man who lay down his cloak so Queen Elizabeth I would not get her feet wet. Walter Ralegh came from a poor background and who rose almost as high as one could in Elizabethan England - and then fell about as low. The story tells about how Ralegh's strengths, weaknesses and luck, both good and bad made him who he was and changed the world. Wonderfully researched, brilliantly written, full of amazing facts this book will be a great delight for everyone interested in history of the Elizabeth England.
military memoirs of a confederate a critical narrative
- Author: edward porter alexander
- Genre: Civil War
There was hardly a person who waged more war than Edward Porter Alexander, an American engineer, an officer in the U.S. Army, a Confederate general in the Civil War, who later became a planter and author. Alexander was an outstanding and worthy man, whose memoires of war appear the greatest inheritance, left for the descendants. He eloquently tells of his impressions; describes the soldiers and officers of the great Confederate army with startling impartiality. The pictures, sounds and even scents of the battles, depicted by Alexander, amaze readers’ imagination.
The Wizard
- Author: Haggard Henry Rider
- Genre: General AAS
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