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Subject: World Literature
The Chosen People
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Nyburg, Sidney Lauer
Subject: U.S. History, World Literature
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This book is the fictionalization of a true class conflict in Baltimore’s textile industry at the turn of the century. The strike around which the story is centered involved religious leaders, Christian social workers, and the local gentry.
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The History of a Slave
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Johnston, H. H. (edited by Paul E. Lovejoy)
Subject: Africa, History of Slavery
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In 1889, the British colonial official Sir Harry Johnston published The History of a Slave, a story of an archetypal slave based on Johnston’s extensive knowledge of North and West Africa from his travels there. The tale follows the fictitious …
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The Pond (La Charca): Puerto Rico’s 19th-Century Masterpiece
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Zeno-Gandia, Manuel (preface by Kal Wagenheim; introduction by Juan Flores)
Subject: Caribbean, World Literature
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Before the turn of the century, while the rich in Madrid, Paris and Rome capped their sumptuous dinners with sips of Puerto Rico’s exquisite black café, the anemic men, women and children who harvested the precious crop lived in squalid …
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The Turning Point: The Autobiography of Klaus Mann
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Mann, Klaus (introduction by Shelley Frisch)
Subject: Europe, World Literature
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Klaus Mann, writer of Mephisto and the oldest son of Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann, describes the life of intellectuals in Europe before the Nazi seizure of power, then moves on to depict the restless existence of the often bohemian …
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Vanguardia Latinoamericana
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Teles, Gilberto Mendonca and Klaus Muller-Burgh
Subject: Latin America, World Literature
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A collection of historical documents. Volume I covers Mexico and Latin America; Volume II, the Caribbean and Antilles.
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