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Hawaiian Legends
William Hyde Rice; Contributions by Mint Editions
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Sodom and Gomorrah
Marcel Proust; Contributions by Mint Editions
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Early Autumn
Louis Bromfield; Contributions by Mint Editions
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The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser; Contributions by Mint Editions
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One Brown Girl and ¼ (1909) is a novel by Thomas MacDermot.
Published under his pseudonym Tom Redcam by the All Jamaica
Library, One Brown Girl and ¼ is a tragic story of race and class
set in Jamaica. Understated and ironic, the novel critiques the
social conditions of Jamaica under British colonialism. Through the
character of Liberta Passley, a wealthy woman of mixed racial
heritage, MacDermot sheds light on the disparities between the
island’s black and white communities, crafting a story now
recognized as essential to modern Caribbean literature. “‘I?’
said Liberta Passley, ‘am the most unhappy woman in Kingston.’
She was not speaking aloud, but was silently building up with
unspoken words a tabernacle for her thoughts. She considered now
the very positive assertion in which she had housed this thought,
went again through its very brief and enigmatic terms, and then
deliberately added the further words: ‘and in Jamaica.’”
Despite her beauty, wealth, education, and social standing, Liberta
Passley is unable to feel satisfied. Raised as the only surviving
daughter of a wealthy Englishman and his formerly-enslaved wife,
Liberta feels she must ignore her mother’s side of the family as
a means of rejecting her African roots. Manipulating her father,
she arranges for her Aunt Henrietta, her mother’s only surviving
sister and their loyal housekeeper, to be fired and thrown out.
Thinking she is making a decision for her own good, she unwittingly
welcomes disaster into her life. With a beautifully designed cover
and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Thomas
MacDermot’s One Brown Girl and ¼ is a classic of English
literature reimagined for modern readers.
Doctor Manette, a prominent French Doctor, must flee Paris in the
midst of the chaos that has ensued in what became known as the
Reign of Terror. Fearing further persecution from his 18 maddening
years of imprisonment in the Bastille of Paris, Doctor Manette
hurriedly leaves France to be with the daughter he's never met.
Opening with the famous lines, "It was the best of times, it was
the worst of times..." Charles Dickens', A Tale of Two Cities is
perhaps one of the most celebrated and popular novels of its time.
Weaving together the narratives of vastly different but equally
profound characters against the backdrop of political revolution
and strife, A Tale of Two Cities is a tale of human perseverance.
Throughout the novel, Charles Dickens is able to portray the
hardships of each social class during the trying times of the
French Revolution in a way that is both profoundly elegant and
heartbreaking at the same time. Becoming known as the perhaps the
epitome of Dickensian writing and style, A Tale of Two Cities
measures the boundaries of human will in the fight for what is
right during a time when that just might cost your life.
Winner of the 1919 Pulitzer Prize, Booth Tarkington's The
Magnificent Ambersons is a grand historical drama and social
history of the United States that follows the story of the Amberson
family's financial decline at the start of the Industrial Age. Once
upon a time in a small-but upscale-Indianapolis town, an American
family built a dynasty. For generations, the Ambersons stood
unchallenged as the most prominent and powerful family in the
region until the turn of the century and the coming of the
industrialists. The Ambersons, now centered on the patriarch's
grandson, George, enter a previously unheard of time in which their
family name holds little value. Unable or perhaps unwilling to
change, George experiences first hand why doing things is better
than simply being things. Professionally typeset with a beautifully
designed cover, this edition of The Magnificent Ambersons is a
classic of American literature, reimagined for modern readers.
Mirroring Nella Larsen's Passing, The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of
Negro Life is the fantastic debut of Wallace Thurman. A Black boy
could get along but a Black girl would never know anything but
sorrow and disappointment. Emma Lou was born black. Abandoned by
her father at birth, she is subjected to skin bleaching by her
mother, hoping to make her child more desirable. Learning that she
is unwanted in white society but also ostracized within her own,
Emma Lou navigates a harsh and unrelenting world as she tries to
come to terms with her life and love herself in the skin she's in.
Professionally typeset with a beautifully designed cover, this
edition of The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life is a
reimagining of a Harlem Renaissance staple for the modern reader.
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New Amazonia (Paperback)
Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett; Contributions by Mint Editions
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New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future (1889) is a novel by
Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett. In June 1889, British novelist and
President of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League Mary Augusta
Ward published her reactionary essay "An Appeal Against Female
Suffrage" in The Nineteenth Century. In response, Corbett penned
New Amazonia, a feminist utopian novel which depicts the emergence
of an advanced society of women in the not-so-distant future. While
little is known about Corbett, her surviving novels and stories
suggest she was a passionate campaigner for women's suffrage in an
era of conservative politics and traditional values. "'This country
is New Amazonia. A long time ago it was called Erin by some, but
Ireland was the name it was best known by. It used to be the scene
of perpetual strife and warfare. Our archives tell us that it was
subjugated by the warlike English, and that it suffered for
centuries from want and oppression.'" Having fallen asleep for
hundreds of years, a Victorian man and woman emerge to a vastly
different world. Following a devastating war between Britain and
Ireland, the British repopulated their colony with women deemed to
be surplus. On New Amazonia, these women came to control all
aspects of government and culture, leading to the eradication of
corruption and oppression. Scientifically advanced, the Amazonians
have developed a technique for strengthening the human body and
increasing the lifespan of women by hundreds of years. Mesmerized
by what she finds in this fascinating new world, the narrator
records her reactions alongside those of her male counterpart, who
remains openly hostile to the Amazonians throughout. For its
depiction of an advanced matriarchal society and celebration of
feminist ideals, New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future remains an
important early work of utopian science fiction. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett's New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the
Future is a classic of feminist utopian fiction reimagined for
modern readers.
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The Walls of Jericho
Rudolph Fisher; Contributions by Mint Editions
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The Walls of Jericho
Rudolph Fisher; Contributions by Mint Editions
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Songs of Jamaica (Paperback)
Claude McKay; Contributions by Mint Editions
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Songs of Jamaica (1912) is a poetry collection by Claude McKay.
Published before the poet left Jamaica for the United States, Songs
of Jamaica is a pioneering collection of verse written in Jamaican
Patois, the first of its kind. As a committed leftist, McKay was a
keen observer of the Black experience in the Caribbean, the
American South, and later in New York, where he gained a reputation
during the Harlem Renaissance for celebrating the resilience and
cultural achievement of the African American community while
lamenting the poverty and violence they faced every day. "Quashie
to Buccra," the opening poem, frames this schism in terms of labor,
as one class labors to fulfill the desires of another: "You tas'e
petater an' you say it sweet, / But you no know how hard we wuk fe
it; / You want a basketful fe quattiewut, / 'Cause you no know how
'tiff de bush fe cut." Addressing himself to a white audience, he
exposes the schism inherent to colonial society between white and
black, rich and poor. Advising his white reader to question their
privileged consumption, dependent as it is on the subjugation of
Jamaica's black community, McKay warns that "hardship always melt
away / Wheneber it comes roun' to reapin' day." This revolutionary
sentiment carries throughout Songs of Jamaica, finding an echo in
the brilliant poem "Whe' fe do?" Addressed to his own people, McKay
offers hope for a brighter future to come: "We needn' fold we han'
an' cry, / Nor vex we heart wid groan and sigh; / De best we can do
is fe try / To fight de despair drawin' night: / Den we might
conquer by an' by- / Dat we might do." With a beautifully designed
cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Claude
McKay's Songs of Jamaica is a classic of Jamaican literature
reimagined for modern readers.
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