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  • A True Picture of Emigration

    by Rebecca Burlend, Edward Burlend ...
    In 1831, Rebecca Burlend and her family left everything they had ever known. Their village, their neighbors, their land, and the only life they had ever understood slipped behind them as they boarded a ship bound for America. What followed was not the golden promise that emigration pamphlets had sold them. It was fourteen years of brutal winters, backbreaking labor, crushing isolation, and a ... Read more

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  • The Backwoods of Canada

    by Catharine Parr Traill, D.M.R. Bentley ...
    Series series New Canadian Library
    The toils, troubles, and satisfactions of pioneer life are recorded with charm and vivacity in this portrayal of pioneer life by Catharine Parr Traill, who, like her sister Susanna Moodie, left the comforts of genteel English society for the rigours of a new, young land. ... Read more

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  • Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839

    by Fanny Kemble ...
    "Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839" by Fanny Kemble is a compelling firsthand account of life on a Southern plantation during the antebellum period. Kemble, an English actress and writer, provides a vivid portrayal of the daily lives of both the enslaved people and the plantation owners. Her observations reveal the stark contrasts between the opulence of plantation life ... Read more

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  • Life Without Principle: Henry David Thoreau's Reflections on Ethics and Materialism by Henry David Thoreau

    by Henry David Thoreau ...
    Life Without Principle by Henry David Thoreau: Step into the realm of philosophical reflection and social critique with Henry David Thoreau's "Life Without Principle." This essay explores the value of simplicity, integrity, and individualism in a society driven by material pursuits. Thoreau's contemplative exploration challenges conventional notions of success and offers insights into authentic ... Read more

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  • Art Of Moonlight Deception Vol 3

    by Sammy Tsui ...
    He should have overheard a few of the talk between your miser as well as the herb-doctor; for, soon after the withdrawal for the one, he comprised to your other now during the base of the stairs tilting up against the baluster there with the above that is greeting. ... Read more

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  • The Complete Works of Walt Whitman

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Essence of American Spirit through Poetry and Prose

    by Walt Whitman, Helena Davenport ...
    The Complete Works of Walt Whitman is an unparalleled compendium that encapsulates the profound breadth of one of America's most seminal poets. With daring explorations of themes such as democracy, individuality, and the human experience, Whitman forges a poetic style characterized by free verse and expansive imagery, breaking away from traditional forms. His experimental approach not only defined ... Read more

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  • Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century Ameri

    by J. Hecor St. John de Crèvecoeur ...
    America’s physical and cultural landscape is captured in these two classics of American history. Letters provides an invaluable view of the pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary eras; Sketches details in vivid prose the physical setting in which American settlers created their history.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking ... Read more

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  • Domestic Manners of the Americans

    by Fanny Trollope ...
    Observations of early America, based on a trip made in 1827 by Frances Milton Trollope (known as Fanny Trollope). According to Wikipedia: "Frances Trollope (1780 1863) was an English novelist and miscellaneous writer who published as Mrs. Trollope or Mrs. Frances Trollope. Her detractors diminished her reputation by making the common name used for her the overly familiar and slightly vulgar ... Read more

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  • The Greatest Essays of Henry David Thoreau - 26 Influential Titles in One Edition

    Enriched edition. Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, Walking, Sir Walter Raleigh…

    by Henry David Thoreau, Scarlett Burke ...
    Henry David Thoreau's collection of essays, titled 'The Greatest Essays of Henry David Thoreau - 26 Influential Titles in One Edition', encapsulates the essence of Transcendentalism with its thought-provoking exploration of nature, self-reliance, and civil disobedience. Thoreau's literary style is both eloquent and introspective, drawing on his experiences living a simple life in nature at Walden ... Read more

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  • Domestic Manners of the Americans

    by Frances Trollope ...
    In the early 1800s, an English writer named Frances Trollope spent some time touring the then-very-young country of America with her son Henry, dividing most of her time between Cincinnati and a utopian camp settlement that housed former slaves in Tennessee. Although Frances enjoyed her visit, she was absolutely appalled with what she regarded as Americans' abhorrent lack of decorum. Domestic ... Read more

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  • On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

    by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson ...
    “Thoreau is more relevant than ever” – Boston Globe“I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.” – Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil DisobedienceThoreau’s concept of Civil Disobedience inspired many public figures whose actions altered the flow of history: Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., President John F. Kennedy; and influenced writers including Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, ... Read more

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  • Walden

    by Henry David Thoreau, Henry Claridge ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    No nineteenth-century American writer can claim to be as modern as Henry David Thoreau. His central preoccupations – the illusory nature of much of what we call ‘progress’, the proper symbiotic relationship between man and the natural environment, the limitations of government, especially where it seeks to intrude on the personal, the moral and political case for non-violence, the dubious ... Read more

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