James K. White
92 books
War & Military
928
Heywood Broun - A.E.F.: With General Pershing and the American Forces
In 1917, the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) arrived in Europe to fight alongside the French and British allied forces. American journalist Heywood Broun followed the AEF and reported on their experiences. He...
5 hours 18 minutes
Law
850
Emmerson W. Manning - Practical Instruction for Detectives
Having been connected for many years with two of the largest and most successful private detective agencies in this country, both as an operator and as an official, and having been requested to outline briefly and...
2 hours 38 minutes
Published 1800 -1900
1.1K
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Dark Night's Work
Love, murder and class commentary in Mrs Gaskell's usual brilliant style! This novel was originally serialised and published by Charles Dickens, with whom Mrs Gaskell had several disagreements. She chose to avoid...
6 hours 35 minutes
Literary Fiction
826
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
*Non-fiction
830
Frances Anne Kemble - Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839
Fanny Kemble was a British actress who married mega-plantation owner, Pierce Butler of Georgia. During her marriage she kept journals of everyday life, and after some years grew to detest the institution of slavery...
11 hours 59 minutes
Memoirs
762
Lucy Ann Delaney - From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom
In From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom Delaney tells the story of how she was born into slavery of her mother--a freeborn black woman who had been kidnapped and sold on the blocks--but escaped...
59 minutes
