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Describes the life of Josiah Harlan, a Pennsylvania Quaker who travelled to Afghanistan in the 1820s, became a surgeon for the Maharaja of Punjab although he had no medical training, assisted the exiled Afghan king, and was commander in chief of the Afghan armies.

The story of a troubled fourteen-year-old boy who, upon leaving an abusive homelife, lives on the edge of society, struggling to find himself.

Ella Turner moves to France with her husband expecting a quiet life, begins researching her family's French ancestry, and discovers unsettling parallels between herself and a woman who lived four centuries earlier.

Reprint of a 1934 text in which the author meditates upon the design and goals of literary culture, chronicling the conditions, ideas, and experiences that shaped American writing in the early twentieth century, and paying homage to the nurturing atmosphere of Paris in the 1920s.

A play by award-winning author Eve Ensler in which two American women travel to Bosnia to help women confront their memories of war.

Rhoda Berenson shares the story of her ongoing five-year struggle to secure the release of her daughter, Lori, who was arrested in Peru in December 1995 where she had been working as a journalist and human rights activist, and charged with treason.

An anthology of critical essays that provide a wide range of information and opinion about the twentieth-century play "Our Town, and its author Thornton Wilder.

Sydney Parade, a political scientist who has left home and family to join a foreign-aid operation in Saigon in 1965, becomes trapped in a moral crossfire when he begins to discover the unsettling depths of the Vietnam conflict.

A Connecticut Yankee, a nineteenth-century mechanic suffers a blow to the head and wakes up in King Arthur's Britain.