Contains more than fifty short stories by Damon Runyon, based on the colorful characters he met on Broadway in the early twentieth century, and includes selections entitled "The Bloodhounds of Broadway," "Earthquake," and others.
Presents articles from major newspapers, underground presses, oral histories, police reports, and FBI files that focus on Black Muslim leader Malcolm X.
During one of his several adventurous voyages in the seventeenth century, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a desert island before being rescued.
The classic story of a mischievous nineteenth-century boy in a Mississippi River town and his friends, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, as they run away from home, witness a murder, and find treasure in a cave.
Presents the story of Lucy Snowe, which is loosely based upon Bronte's own personal experiences, and her struggles as a teacher in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette, and includes a chronology of Bronte's life along with explanatory notes.
