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Modern Library Classics eBook Series

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  • The Squatter and the Don

    by Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    A historical romance with an activist heart, and an impassioned critique of U.S. expansionism—with an introduction by Ana Castillo, author of So Far from GodA fiercely partisan novel based on the author’s own experiences, The Squatter and the Don follows two families living near San Diego shortly after the United States’ annexation of California: the Alamares of the landed Mexican gentry, and the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Early African-American Classics

    Edited by Anthony Appiah ...
    This essential one-volume collection brings together some of the most influential and significant works by African-American writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Included herein are such classics as Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845) and excerpts from W.E.B. DuBois’s The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Harriet A. Jacobs’s Incidents in ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Life of P. T. Barnum Written by Himself

    by P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum ...
    P. T. Barnum narrates his early history as Clerk, Merchant and Editor, and his later career a Showman, with numerous illustrations by artist F.O.C. Darley.Transcribed from the 1855 edition. ... Read more

    $2.47 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Behind the Scenes

    or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

    by Elizabeth Keckley ...
    Originally published in 1868—when it was attacked as an “indecent book” authored by a “traitorous eavesdropper”—Behind the Scenes is the story of Elizabeth Keckley, who began her life as a slave and became a privileged witness to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Keckley bought her freedom at the age of thirty-seven and set up a successful dressmaking business in Washington, D.C. She became ... Read more

    Was $12.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 41 Stories

    150th Anniversary Edition

    by O. Henry, Laura Furman ...
    Including his most famous works, such as “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Furnished Room,” this collection of forty-one O. Henry short stories demonstrates his extraordinary technical genius.“There are stories in everything. I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.”—O. HenryReaders the world over recognize O. Henry as the best short story writer of the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Mark Twain's Speeches

    by Mark Twain ...
    Mark Twain's Speeches libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles! ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cecilia Valdés or El Angel Hill

    by Cirilo Villaverde, Helen Lane ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Originally published in New York City in 1882, Cirilo Villaverde's novel has fascinated readers inside and outside Cuba since the late 19th century. In this new English translation, a vast landscape emerges of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism. Set in the Havana of the 1830s, the ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Eternity Street

    Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles

    by John Mack Faragher ...
    "[A] fascinating account of the twisted threads of murder, ethnic violence and mob justice in 19th century Southern California." —Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside: A History of Murder in America, in the Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Who Would Have Thought It?

    by Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Amelia Maria de la L Montes ...
    A major rediscovery—the first novel by a Mexican American WomanMaría Amparo Ruiz de Burton was the first Mexican American woman to write novels in English and the first nineteenth-century California writer to publish a novel in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War. Her first book, Who Would Have Thought It?, tells the story of Lola, a young, orphaned Mexican girl rescued from Indian captors ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta

    Celebrated California Bandit

    by John Rollin Ridge ...
    Series series The Western Frontier Library Series
    In 1854, a Cherokee Indian called Yellow Bird (better known as John Rollin Ridge) launched in this book the myth of Joaquin Murieta, based on the California criminal career of a 19th century Mexican bandit. Today this folk hero has been written into state histories, sensationalized in books, poems, and articles throughout America, Spain, France, Chile, and Mexico, and made into a motion picture ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Susy, a Story of the Plains

    by Bret Harte ...
    In "Susy," the narrative revolves around the eponymous character, Susy—a young girl living in a frontier town. The story explores the challenges and experiences faced by Susy and her family as they navigate life on the western frontier, including interactions with Native Americans and the hardships of pioneer life.Bret Harte's stories often depict the rugged and untamed nature of the American West ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of Mark Twain

    by Mark Twain ...
    The Autobiography of Mark Twain is a collection of reminiscences and reflections. Twain began dictating them in 1870, and in 1906 he published Chapters from My Autobiography in twenty-five installments in the North American Review. He continued to write stories for his autobiography, most of which weren't published in his lifetime due to a lack of access to his papers, or their private subject ... Read more

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