James K. White
92 books
Literary Fiction
426
Charles Waddell Chesnutt - House Behind the Cedars
In this, Chesnutt's first novel, he tells the tragic story of love set against a backdrop of racism, miscegenation and “passing” during the period spanning the antebellum and reconstruction eras in American history....
7 hours 29 minutes
Memoirs
463
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun - Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
This memoirs chronicles Madame Vigée Lebrun's childhood and the early discovery of her talent, the fortuitous break that introduced her to the world of «portraiture of the stars,» her expeditious flight from France at...
7 hours 22 minutes
*Non-fiction
441
William Wells Brown - My Southern Home or, The South and Its People
William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave; his father was a white man who never acknowledged his paternity. Brown escaped slavery at about the age of 20. For...
7 hours 17 minutes
Early Modern
501
J. D. Jerrold Kelley - Story of the Barbary Corsairs
A history of the pirating activities along and around the «Barbary coast» between the 15th and 19th centuries, from the time of the pirate, Ujra Barbarossa, to the French control of Algeria in 1830. Although piracy...
6 hours 29 minutes
