The story of the life of Frederick Douglas was written, as the title page reports, by Frederick Douglas himself and published in 1845. More than 250 years later, the narrative is still a powerful work, both for the bright window it provides for the practice of slavery in the American South and for its eloquent protection of human rights. The story tells the story of the life of Douglas from the moment of his birth to his escape from slavery at the age of 20 years. He reads both a personal testimony and an elaborate argument against slavery. Thus, Douglas's autobiography makes a strong...
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An idealized picture of Sioux life that takes twelve-summers-old Little Bear through some prowess proving journeys in the company of his indulgent grandfather Great Bear. Together they decoy a Pawnee raiding party, hunt buffalo, track down a Crow horse thief- and finally Little Bear is awarded a roan colt by the warrior Flying Arrow. But while there is an abundance both of accurate description of nature- how to handle it skillfully, successfully,- and of smoothly delineated episodes- the writing here is dry and the Sioux are rather boringly endowed with all of the white man's virtues. A...
Orphan Jane Eyre brought up in a shelter. But it did not break the young girl, but only tempered her character. Jane gets an excellent education and tries to achieve everything in life by herself. Having settled down as a governess to the family of the rich and mysterious Mr. Rochester, Jane not only finds her “I”, but also experiences the strongest feeling of all possible ... and a brilliant example of Russian translation school....
The book includes the legendary novel by HG Wells "War of the Worlds", repeatedly filmed and inspiring entire generations of science fiction writers to create exciting works about the struggle of civilizations and star wars....
https://prodimage.images-bn.com/pimages/9781615890088_p0_v1_s550x406.jpg "The Time Machine" is the first science fiction novel by HG Wells, describing a journey into the world of the future, in which there are two types of people: Morlocks, inhabitants of the underworld and service machines, and fragile eloy, completely unsuitable for labor. Unless, having turned into semi-animals....
Of the many romantic legends which abound throughout the West, few match the Lost Mine story from which the peak takes its name. Is it true? Did the mine exist? Or was it a campfire fabrication handed down from generation to generation? Early Spanish explorers of the Southwest, in their fervent search for gold and other riches, discovered and developed many mines, some yielding silver and gold. According to legend, a rich ore body was discovered on the highest point of Lost Mine Peak. Life-term prisoners were forced to work the mine. These men were blindfolded on several occasions in their...
One of the best novels. Jean Valjean, Cosette, Gavroche - the names of the heroes of the novel have long been nominative, the number of his readers in the light does not become less, the novel does not lose its appreciation. A kaleidoscope of people from all walks of French society in the first half of the 19th century, bright, memorable characters, grotesque and romance, tense and exciting plot are the main reasons for success....
Elizabeth Bartlett was an American poet and writer noted for her lyrical and symbolic poetry, creation of the new twelve-tone form of poetry, founder of the international non-profit organization Literary Olympics, Inc., and known as an author of fiction, essays, reviews, translations, and as an editor....
James Ward - a scientist, a geologist, a researcher, a member of the Imperial trans-Antarctic expedition of Ernest Shackleton (1914–1917), seven Arctic expeditions to the coast and Eastern Greenland of many scientific communities....