master and servant

Depicts the unlikely friendship between Olivier, an aristocratic survivor of the French Revolution, and Parrot, the motherless son of an itinerant English printer who meet when they come to America. Their shifting narratives describe their adventures apart and together and describes the newly founded American democracy.

The members of a genteel Southern family are portrayed as petty failures, drunkards, suicides, pathological perverts, and idiots.

Presents the controversial novel, published in 1852, in which author Harriet Beecher Stowe offers an indictment of the pre-Civil War South through the story of Uncle Tom, an elderly slave who maintains his human dignity in the face of cruelty, suffering, and death.

An epistolary novel about a teenage servant in eighteenth-century England who tries desperately to keep her virtue as her master tirelessly attempts to despoil her. Includes an introduction, bibliography, Richardson chronology, and notes.

Bhima, a domestic servant in the household of Sera Dubash, an upper-class Parsi housewife, develops a bond with her employer over the course of many years as they both suffer through abusive marriages, loss, and disappointments, but their friendship still cannot overcome the restrictions of class and money.

The members of a genteel Southern family are portrayed as petty failures, drunkards, suicides, pathological perverts, and idiots.

Bhima, a domestic servant in the household of Sera Dubash, an upper-class Parsi housewife, develops a bond with her employer over the course of many years as they both suffer through abusive marriages, loss, and disappointments, but their friendship still cannot overcome the restrictions of class and money.

Presents an annotated version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that describes the lives of slaves and abolitionists in the 1800s, historical discussions of the Underground Railroad, slave trade, and plantation life, and advertisements that were influenced by the novel.