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Presents the slave narrative of Harriet A. Jacobs, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, and includes commentary about the people and places discussed by the author, as well as photographs and a selection of letters.

Presents American poet Carl Sandburg's 1916 collection of approximately 150 poems, including his famous works "Chicago" and "Fog.".

Contains ten short stories by American author Sarah Orne Jewett in which she explores the friendships and resilience of women in nineteenth-century New England.

A collection of Franklin D. Roosevelt's most influential and memorable speeches. In support of the Common Core Learning Standards. (CCLS).

In Riverton, Maine, circa 1893, Dr. Thomas Stockman wants to disclose that the town's money-making health spa, Clearwater Springs, has been fouled by pollution from a tannery but his proposal to go public is opposed by his brother Pete, the town's mayor, who prompts a wave of public outrage against Dr. Stockman and his family.

Eighteen-year-old Carrie Meeber moves from a small town to Chicago. She dreams of becoming an actress and uses her sexuality to fulfill her goals. After awhile she rebels against all classic morality and becomes a fallen woman.

In a future world, only one man dares to think, strive, and love as an individual in the midst of a paralyzing collective humanity.

Translation of an early eleventh-century novel about the life of Japanese nobleman Genji, the son of an emperor who finds himself falling in love with women who remind him of the mother he lost in his youth.

Translates Aristophanes' 411 B.C. play "Lysistrata, " in which an Athenian woman leads many fellow Greek wives in a sex strike until their husbands stop warring with each other.