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  Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

  Booker T. Washington

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  "Up from Slavery" is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington sharing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, to his work establishing the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to help black people learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves up by the bootstraps. He reflects on the generosity of both teachers and philanthropists who helped in educating blacks and Native Americans. He describes his efforts to instill manners, breeding, health and a feeling of dignity to students.</p

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  Art of Being Photographed The...

  H. G. Wells

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  Herbert George "H. G." Wells (1866 - 1946) was an English writer.He was prolific in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is called a "father of science fiction"THE ART OF BEING PHOTOGRAPHED: "An album," said my uncle, as he sat and turned over my collection of physiognomy, "is, I think, the best reading in the world. You get such sidelights on the owner's heredity, George; distant cousins caricature his features and point the moral of his nose, and ancestral faces prophesy his fate.

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  Tono-Bungay - Book the First:...

  H. G. Wells

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  Herbert George "H. G." Wells (1866 - 1946) was an English writer.He was prolific in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is called a "father of science fiction"BOOK THE FIRST: THE DAYS BEFORE TONO-BUNGAY WAS INVENTED: Most people in this world seem to live "in character"; they have a beginning, a middle and an end, and the three are congruous one with another and true to the rules of their type. You can speak of them as being of this sort of people or that. They are, as theatrical people say, no more (and no less) than "character actors." They have a class, they have a place, they know what is becoming in them and what is due to them, and their proper size of tombstone tells at last how properly they have played the part.

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  Gusev

  Anton Chekhov

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  "Gusev"  is an 1890 short story by Anton Chekhov.
  Several discharged soldiers return home from the Far East by ship. Confined to the hospital cabin, they are all apparently dying of consumption and seemingly indifferent to their condition. Among them are Gusev, a mild, racist, slightly dim man, and the mysterious Pavel Ivanovich, an ardent "protester" who often goes on diatribes (many of which Gusev either misunderstands or ignores) about his lifelong commitment to telling people "the truth to their faces". Ivanovich is proud of having riled every single person around him during his three years' service in the East, and thinks all the other men present are fools. He later reveals that he is the son of a priest and had to disguise himself as a peasant to buy his third-class ticket. One day, while Gusev is asleep, Pavel Ivanovich dies. One of the other soldiers, seeing that Gusev will also die shortly, helps him up to the ship's deck, where they look at the waves crashing into one another. Several days later, Gusev dies. His body is sewn into a sailcloth sack and weighted. After a short prayer, it is thrown into the ocean, where a shark bites at it. Up above, the ocean begins to reflect the colors of the sky, "...tender, joyous, passionate colours for which it is hard to find a name in human speech".

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  The New Atlantis

  Francis Bacon

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  Journey to the utopian island of Bensalem in this novel by the influential English philosopher and scientist.A group of Europeans leave South America by boat and, after a bout of dangerous weather, find refuge on an island where a society like none other exists. Here, the travelers find themselves welcomed by a people who, thanks to a long-ago miracle, received the message of Christ, and practice the virtues neglected by so many others. They also practice the scientific method (established by Sir Francis Bacon himself in real life), using empirical knowledge for human advancement. This work by one of the geniuses of his time reveals his vision of what our world could be—and makes for a thought-provoking journey for the modern reader.

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  Dracula - An Audiobook Empire...

  Bram Stoker

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  “The blood is the life!” 
  Narrator RJ Bayley and Audiobook Empire have joined forces to bring you Bram Stoker's Dracula. The first to be published on audio from a series of classics first performed by RJ on the "Bayley's Bookshelf" podcast. 
  “I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.” 
  Originally published in 1897, this story has become as immortal as Count Dracula himself. When solicitor Jonathan Harker journeys to Transylvania to help a wealthy client purchase a house in London, he discovers that there's more to the count than he had originally assumed. A string of peculiar and deadly incidents surround the Count's move from Transylvania to London and it's up to a ragtag group, led by Professor van Helsing, to stop them from continuing. 
  The ultimate tale for fans of the gothic, Horror, vampire fiction, Victorian London, and all that's to be found in between.

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