Dover thrift editions

Presents over four hundred quotations from the writings of sixteenth-century playwright William Shakespeare; arranged by topic.

Josiah Henson and his family risked starvation, exposure, and recapture and walked from Kentucky to Ohio. Native Americans assisted the struggling family, as did sympathetic boatmen who ferried them safely across Lake Erie. Once in Ontario, Canada, Henson took an active role in organizing a self-sufficient community. His story helped alert his contemporaries to the horrors and heartbreak of slavery. His story was originally published in 1849.

An autobiographical novel depicting the childhood, adolescence, and early manhood of Stephen Dedalus.

Presents Shakespeare's drama about Coriolanus, a clever and arrogant Roman general who spurns the people of Rome, allies himself with Rome's enemies, and later betrays them; and includes notes.

A love that begins during the siege of Troy ends in betrayal and death.

"Tesla recounts his boyhood in Croatia, his schooling and work in Europe, his collaboration with Thomas Edison, and his subsequent research"--Provided by publisher.

Features almost thirty short stories written by influential African-American authors such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jean Toomer.

A memoir of Edward E. Cummings's four-month imprisonment in a French detention center as an alleged spy where he endures terrible conditions and meets up with the most deprived of all the immigrants.

A collection of writings in which former slave Frederick Douglass shares his views on slavery and the Civil War.