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  The Sea Wolf

  Jack London

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  The is a tale of Humphrey Van Weydon, unwilling captive and crewman on a sealing ship of cutthroats, thrown in with the treacherous outcasts that man the ship, and ruled by Wolf Larsen - the Sea Wolf, a brooding, violent brute... the captain.

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  The City Of Dreadful Night

  Rudyard Kipling

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  Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was one of the most well known writers of the 20th century.The City of Dreadful Night paints a gritty, dark picture of a hot summer night within a walled city in the Orient. The narrator steps over sleeping people which mimic corpses — and vividly depicts what he sees, feels, and hears in this death-like city.An Author's Republic audio production.

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  Uncle Tom's Cabin (Unabridged)

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

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  Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War".Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.

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  Summer

  Edith Wharton

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  This is a powerful and tragic work by the masterful author about a girl's sexual awakening. Of course, there are consequences involved; she is a poor girl in a small western New England town. This book deals with both sexuality and class distinction and touches on incest as well. While these topics are more or less openly debated today, they were considered scandalous at the time of publication. Wharton's illustrious colleagues Henry James and Joseph Conrad both praised this novel for its realism and courage!

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  A Starry Drive

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  In our rule at Silverado, there was a melancholy interregnum. The queen and the crown prince with one accord fell sick; and, as I was sick to begin with, our lone position on Mount Saint Helena was no longer tenable, and we had to hurry back to Calistoga and a cottage on the green. By that time we had begun to realize the difficulties of our position. We had found what an amount of labour it cost to support life in our red canyon; and it was the dearest desire of our hearts to get a China-boy to go along with us when we returned. We could have given him a whole house to himself, self-contained, as they say in the advertisements; and on the money question we were prepared to go far. Kong Sam Kee, the Calistoga washerman, was entrusted with the affair; and from day to day it languished on, with protestations on our part and mellifluous excuses on the part of Kong Sam Kee.

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  Sanctuary

  Edith Wharton

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  Kate Orme, shocked by the discovery of her fiance's complicity in a tragedy, and by society's willingness to overlook such transgressions, nevertheless marries him.Years later, her son faces a moral crisis similar to the one that showed her his father's moral weakness

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