Set in the rugged Appalachian Mountains at the turn of the 20th century, *The Trail of the Lonesome Pine* explores the enduring conflict between tradi...
Marie Stopes' 'Journal from Japan' provides a personal glimpse into her life as a pioneering scientist and activist during the early 20th century. Whi...
Set in the late 1800s in Pennsylvania, "Blind Brother" tells the story of two young brothers, Tom and Bennie. Tom, 14, and Bennie, 12, work in dangero...
Germinal is a novel by Émile Zola, the thirteenth installment of his twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart, a naturalistic chronicle of the lives o...
In "Schwarze Revier", Paul Zech utilizes sonnets as the primary form to convey his experiences within a Belgian coal mining district. The text evokes...
Fred King, a young man with a heart of gold, toils in the dangerous world of coal mining. Despite the hardships he faces, his optimism and unwavering...
