social life and customs

Wang Lang, a simple peasant farmer, takes as a wife a battered slave girl who becomes an indomitable, loyal woman. Working the land together, they prosper and increase their holdings, yet Wang eventually betrays his family and neglects the earth he had worshipped.

An unknown person has provided money for the education of Pip, a poor English boy, in nineteenth-century England.

The orphan Pip's terrifying encounter with an escaped convict and his mysterious summons to the house of the wealthy Miss Havisham form the prelude to his "great expectations." How Pip comes into a fortune, what he does with it, and what he discovers through his secret benefactor are the ingredients of his struggle for moral redemption.

In 2007, French writer, Fre?de?ric Beigbeder, decided to travel to the United States in search of J.D. Salinger, who withdrew from the world in 1965 and is said to still be alive and reside somewhere in New Hampshire.

Describes the lives of two young Chinese Americans and their customs and conditions at home in New York City's Chinatown.

Examines events of the 1960s in the United States, discussing the Vietnam War, influential people, and how the young people of the era rallied against social conventionalism.

Examines the Roaring Twenties. Includes a visual chronology and source notes.

Contains a children's study of home life in Ancient Rome and includes information on the Roman family, marriage, and the role of women, slaves, types of food and clothing, and entertainment.

An illustrated exploration of the mythology, art, religion, civilization, and customs of ancient Rome.

Author Gary Paulsen relates tales from his youth in a small town in northwestern Minnesota in the late 1940s and early 1950s, such as skiing behind a souped-up car and imitating daredevil Evel Knievel.