First published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane is an innovative literary work powerfully evoking black life in the South. Rich in imagery, Toomer's impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic sketches of Southern rural and urban life are permeated by visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and fire; the northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets. This iconic work of American literature is published with a new afterword by R ...
For fans of Cristina Garca, Joan Silber, Michael Ondaatje, Amor Towles, Pete Fromm, or Alice McDermottWith the sweeping, personalized historical tone of DOWNTON ABBEY, and the heart and humanity of THIS IS USA sweeping novel of the 20th and early days of the 21st century, spanning the London Blitz to a Montana university campus struggling to understand 9/11 as it unfolds, 1980s Toronto to a cross-country road trip ending in Chile in homage to Pa ...
Россия конца XVI века. Царь Иван Грозный вместе с отрядом Ермака посылает в Сибирь своего специального агента, чтобы раскрыть тайну исчезновения загадочного множителя, от которого зависит судьба человечества – вступит ли оно в новое время или навсегда останется прозябать в бесчасьи. На страницах книги оживают представления средневекового человека о сибирской земле, а также населявших её реальных и изобретенных людской фантазией существах и народ ...
Прекрасная Алена – скромница-золотошвейка, близкая подруга и наперсница Евдокии Лопухиной, ставшей царицей всея Руси и женой Петра I, переживает за судьбу подруги. Петр I охладел к своей молодой жене, и Алена готова на все, чтобы вернуть любовь царя. Но ведает ли Алена, что ей предстоит попасть в разбойничий стан, стать могущественной колдуньей, повелевающей стихиями и душами человеческими. Ведает ли Алена, что ее прокляли еще в утробе матери и ...
On a cold January morning, thirteen-year-old Karl Zimmer awakens to find the public square of his city draped in crimson-colored flags. Hitler has been named Chancellor. Karl doesn’t know what this means but he understands danger is in the air. Narrated in the first person, What the Living Remember is the story of Karl’s coming of age during the pre-war Nazi period. Karl must navigate adolescence amidst mounting anti-Semitism, his mother’s wish ...
Set in Alabama and Washington, D.C., in the early part of the twentieth century, W. E. B. Du Bois's first novel weaves the themes of racial equality and understanding through the stark reality of prejudice and bias. Originally published in 1911 and conceived immediately after The Souls of Black Folk , Du Bois turned to fiction to carry his message to a popular audience who were unfamiliar with his nonfiction works. Du Bois addresses the fa ...
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Can she save herself from a witch's fate? Martha is a feisty and articulate young woman, the daughter of a wheelwright, living in a Herefordshire village in Elizabethan England. With no mother Martha's life is spent running her father's meagre household and helping out at the local school whilst longing to escape the confines and small-mindedness of a community driven by religious bigotry and poverty. As she is able to read and i ...
From the bestselling author of The Shop Girls of Harpers and The Mulberry Lane Series. Oxford St, London, 1913. The shop girls of Harpers Emporium on Oxford Street are happy in their work and their lives are moving on at quite a pace. United by the suffragette cause and now living under one roof, some will find love and marriage whilst others experience heartache and tears.Harpers is the bond that holds them together, bringing strength t ...
