Great Expectations is written in the first person and is virtually a fictional autobiography of “Pip” from his childhood, through often painful experi...
A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the P...
The Financier is a novel by Theodore Dreiser, based on real-life streetcar tycoon Charles Yerkes. Dreiser started writing his manuscript in 1911, and...
Charlotte Temple, a cautionary tale for young women, follows the unfortunate adventures of the eponymous heroine as she is seduced by a dashing soldie...
A man born into bondage who became a top cowboy in the wild west. Recommended for anyone interested in cowboy history, American history, black America...
"On the whole, then, the argument from desire and design holds good. It is the weak and inefficient, the unwise in the affairs of life, the bunglers a...
Women Beware Women tells the story of Bianca, a woman who escapes from her rich home to elope with the poor Leantio. Fearful and insecure, Leantio req...
This is a collection of 365 moral admonitions of Saint Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) and other notable Franciscans. The compiler of this anthology sug...
The novel recounts the life of a young man, Lucian Taylor, focusing on his dreamy childhood in rural Wales, in a town based on Caerleon. The Hill of D...
These essays, based on Hawthorne’s stay in England as American Consul in Liverpool, were first published in the form of a series of travel articles fo...
“Except those great crimes, which the few, calling themselves governments, practice upon the many, by means of organized, systematic extortion and tyr...
“Now I have said again and again that we must hit Capitalism, and hit it hard, for the plain and definite reason that it is growing stronger. Most of...
The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood. Loosely based on t...
In this book, Burton Egbert Stevenson writes a brief biography of some of the most noteworthy men in American history. He begins at the very beginning...
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is novella by American author Stephen Crane . The story centers on Maggie, a young girl from the Bowery who is driven to...
Poor Folk sometimes translated as Poor People, is the first novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, written over the span of nine months between 1844 and 1845. Do...
The eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were periods of stark contrast between the opulent lifestyle of the rich and the extreme pove...
The story of an inventor's son, who tries to prevent him and a couple other characters from being taken into poverty by the man of the house who is dr...
What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement is a political pamphlet written by Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin (credited as N. Lenin) i...
Brought up by a parish schoolmaster with a hidden past, Sylvia Carew dreams of a future devoid of poverty. Will she be faithful to the man she adores...
Twenty-year-old Gertrude Foster has had the sheltered upbringing typical of women of her class. Yet, she questions the restrictive norms with which sh...
