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The autobiography of Sojourner Truth, the nineteenth-century African-American woman who moved from slave labor to preaching and promoting abolition and women's rights; also includes a collection of writings and anecdotes dating from Truth's lifetime.

A selection of six short stories by Jazz Age writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Presents a collection of dialect poetry from nineteenth-century African American poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Presents over two hundred poems written by American women poets, drawn from a period that ranges from the colonial era through the twentieth century.

A collection of poems by nineteenth-century poet Stephen Crane.

A collection of poems by Claude McKay, one of the first poets of the Harlem Renaissance.

Presents a concise reprint of Sigmund Freud's ideas on the interpretation of dreams and describes how dreams are influenced by activities or thoughts.

A young Boston gentleman, Julian West, is mysteriously transported from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, and finds a world that would have been unthinkable in his own time.

Presents the text of the 1893 comedy of manners in which a woman of perceived low morals shows social paragon Lady Windermere the difference between true morality and its semblance.

Presents the slave narrative of Harriet A. Jacobs, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, in which she describes the trials of her life as a Southern slave, and discusses her determination to win freedom for herself and her children.

A charming, young English woman is at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires when she finds herself attracted to someone socially unsuitable and is forced to choose between convention and passion.

An unabridged republication of nineteenth-century essayist Henry David Thoreau's reflections on the natural world, written during a two year period when he lived alone in a cabin on the shores of Walden Pond.

Reproduces twenty-one legendary speeches by some of the most influencial women in the history of the United States, from Sojourner Truth to Nancy Pelosi.

An anthology of memorable speeches spanning the twentieth century, including complete speeches and excerpts from Winston Churchill, Mohandas Gandhi, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X, Ronald Reagan, the Dalai Lama, and others.