A man condemns love and marriage and then gets married with predictably unfortunate results in what Tolstoy intended to be a persuasive argument for abstinence. Immediately censored by Russian authorities and banned by the U.S. Postal...
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- Author:Tolstoy, LeoSummary:
- Author:Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónkẹ́Summary:
- Author:Esping-Andersen, GøstaSummary:
- Author:Dostoyevsky, FyodorSummary:
Prince Myshkin, the last of his royal bloodline, suffers from epilepsy and a trusting nature. His saintlike purity of soul makes him suspect in the eyes of sinful St. Petersburg, but he finds a friend in passionate Rogozhin, and through...
- Author:Saʻdāwī, NawālSummary:
A classic of modern Arab writing, Nawal El Saadawi’s shocking account of female oppression in the Muslim world is as powerful today as it was when it was first published. El Saadawi’s experiences working as a doctor in Egyptian villages...
- Author:Baptist, Edward E.Summary:
"Told through intimate slave narratives, plantation records, newspapers, and the words of politicians, entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history. It forces...
- Author:Baptist, Edward E.Summary:
Reveals the alarming extent to which slavery shaped the United States politically, morally, and most of all, economically, offering not only a radical revision of the history of slavery but a disturbing new understanding of the origins...
- Author:Woodham Smith, CecilSummary:
Tells the story of the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s.
- Author:Buck, Pearl S.Summary:
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of China, farmer Wang Lung glories in the soil he works. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers--but they will soon meet their downfall.
- Author:Dumas, AlexandreSummary:
Edmund Dantès is your typical nice guy, until he loses everything to a ruthless rival. Six years of truly creative torment turn him into the dazzling and dangerous Count of Monte Cristo, who descends on fashionable Paris to enact what...
- Author:Saul, John RalstonSummary:
Once again, John Ralston Saul presents the story of Canada's past so that we may better understand its present -- and imagine a better future. Historic moments are always uncomfortable, Saul writes in this impassioned argument, calling...
- Author:Caplan, Gerald, Springer, JaneSummary:
"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and Mail Think...
- Author:Coates, Ta-NehisiSummary:
Son of Vietnam vet and black awareness advocate Paul Coates--a poor man who set out to publish lost classics of black history--Ta- Nehisi drifts toward salvation at Howard University, while his ominous brother Big Bill finds his own...
- Author:Dorries, NadineSummary:
The final gripping instalment of the bestselling Four Streets trilogy which began with THE FOUR STREETS and continued in HIDE HER NAME. On Christmas morning 1963 fifteen-year-old Kitty Doherty gives birth in a hostile Irish convent....
- Author:Chopin, KateSummary:
The scandalous story of a young matron living in New Orleans in the late 1800s, who, awakens to the pangs of passion and desire for the first time in her life.
- Author:Beauchemin, Yves, Grady, WayneSummary:
Montreal student Jerome Lupien - libidinous, unscrupulous, and fresh out of university - is ambitious and at loose ends. Whether on a hunting trip into Québec's northern woods, on an escape planned in good faith to Cuba, or...
- Author:Charon, Joel M.Summary:
This book employs a unique approach to introducing and examining sociological principles by posing and answering in each chapter a question such as What does it mean to be human?; Are human beings free?; and Why is there misery in the...
- Author:Augustine, Ellen, Stoddard, SuzanneSummary:
Corporate structures, products, and processes permeate our society -but what do they really mean to us in our daily lives? The bottom-line mentality that drives corporate America, say Ellen Augustine (formerly Schwartz) and Suzanne...
- Author:Paquet, GillesSummary:
Ce tableau d’avancement examine le Canada français de la dernière moitié du XXe siècle et propose quelques repères utiles, souligne certains enlisements, avancées et retards, et cherche à comprendre son évolution malaisée à travers...
- Author:Proust, MarcelSummary:
The taste of a madeleine dipped in tea transports a man into a reverie about his old family friend Charles Swann and launches the world’s the most introspective literary masterpiece. The first of the seven-volume Remembrance of Things...