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  The Quest of the Silver Fleece

  W.E.B. Du Bois

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  In The Quest of the Silver Fleece there is little, I ween, divine or ingenious; but, at least, I have been honest. In no fact or picture have I consciously set down aught the counterpart of which I have not seen or known; and whatever the finished picture may lack of completeness, this lack is due now to the story-teller, now to the artist, but never to the herald of the Truth.—Author’s Note from The Quest of the Silver Fleece 
  W. E. B. Du Bois considered his first novel, The Quest of the Silver Fleece, to be an “economic study” of the post-Reconstruction relationship between the North and the South, but this first foray into fiction proves itself to be much more than that. Filled with literary realism, social commentary, and romance, Silver Fleece chronicles the love story between Zora, a free-spirited Black girl from a Southern swamp, and Bles, a Black man educated in the North. The couple must find a way to unite and overcome the racist Alabama town in which they live and, through working with the titular silver fleece (cotton), create an economic community that would help the rural Black community become self-sufficient. 
  Controversial and provocative at the time of its publication, Du Bois’s debut novel is a cutting and thorough examination, and condemnation, of America’s views on race both at the time of the novel’s publication and the time in which it is set. As a sociologist and civil-rights leader, Du Bois was uniquely positioned to bring the themes of racism, prejudice, and racial equality found in The Souls of Black Folk, which he had published just before Silver Fleece, to a larger audience that had not read his nonfiction titles. 
  The Quest of the Silver Fleece is a rousing and beautiful work of fiction from one of America’s most important intellects, and it continues to inspire conversation and debate around systemic racism in America today.

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  Last Petition

  Bhagat Singh

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  Last Petition by Bhagat Singh is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: To: The Punjab Governor Sir, ⁠With due respect we beg to bring to your kind notice the following: ⁠That we were sentenced to death on 7th October 1930 by a British Court, L.C.C Tribunal, constituted under the Sp. Lahore Conspiracy Case Ordinance, promulgated by the H.E. The Viceroy, the Head of the This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

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  L'Amour Apres La Mort - From...

  Lafcadio Hearn

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  Lafcadio Hearn was born on the 27th June 1850 on the Ionian isle of Levkás in Greece to a British Army officer and a Greek Mother. 
  His father, fearing for his career prospects at being married to a Greek Orthodox wife, sent them to Dublin whilst he continued to advance his career with further postings.  Life there was difficult for mother and son.  His father returned, wounded and traumatised, when Lafcadio was three.  He annulled the marriage and she remarried but had to give up care of Lafcadio to her sister-in law.   
  After brief periods for Catholic education in England and France he emigrated to Ohio in the United States when he was 19, taking on a series of casual jobs before embarking on a career as a journalist, publishing poems and essays in Cincinnati.  It was whilst here that he began a side-line in translating, starting with Gautier and Flaubert.  He married in 1874 to a 20 year old African-American woman in violation of Ohio's anti-miscegenation law.  The marriage soon failed. 
  In 1877 he relocated to New Orleans to write on a variety of themes before picking up a two year assignment from Harper’s to write in the West Indies, where he also wrote his first novel. 
  In 1890 Harper’s sent him to Japan.  Here he left journalism and took the remarkable decision to become a schoolteacher in the north of Japan.   Enraptured by the culture he was driven to explain it in various Western publications to those who had little, if any, knowledge of its culture.  Within the year he had fallen in love with, and married, a high-born Japanese lady, together they would have four children.   
  In 1895 he became a Japanese national and took the name Koizumi Yakumo, Koizumi being his wife’s family name. 
  The following few years, whilst a professor of Literature at the Imperial University of Japan, were his most creative and admired period.   
  Lafcadio Hearn died of heart failure on the 26th of September 1904, in Tokyo, Japan shortly before leaving to deliver a series of lectures at Cornell University in New York State.  He was 54.

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  Middlemarch

  George Eliot

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  Considered one of the great English novels, George Eliot's Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life follows myriad characters and their lives in the eponymous town, Middlemarch, in the 1800s. Utilizing a realistic style, Eliot considers issues such as religion, education, and the status of women—to name just a few.

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  The Complete Novels of Nikolai...

  Gógol Nikolái

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  Enter a World Where the Mundane Meets the Macabre.
  
  Nikolai Gogol was the ultimate eccentric of Russian literature, a writer who could find the cosmic absurdity in a missing nose or a provincial bribe. Before the psychological depth of Dostoevsky or the grand epics of Tolstoy, there was Gogol—the man who taught the world how to laugh at the tragedy of the human condition. This collection brings together his complete novels and longer prose works, capturing the transition from the vibrant folklore of the Ukrainian countryside to the haunted, bureaucratic streets of St. Petersburg.
  
  This collection explores the pillars of Gogol's surreal genius:
  
  The Master of the Grotesque: Experience a unique blend of the horrific and the hilarious, where characters are defined by their obsessions, their vanities, and their bizarre physicalities.
  
  The Anatomy of Bureaucracy: Witness the biting satire of the Russian civil service, where the pursuit of rank and "proper" appearance leads to a total loss of the soul.
  
  Laughter Through Tears: Discover the "Gogolian" style—a narrative voice that moves seamlessly from slapstick humor to profound, heart-wrenching pity for the "little man."
  
  Supernatural Realism: Explore the eerie intersection of daily life and the demonic, rooted in the rich soil of Slavic myths and the cold shadows of imperial architecture.
  
  Gogol's influence on the Russian soul is immeasurable, providing the DNA for every great Russian writer who followed. Whether you seek a riotous social comedy or a chilling delve into the uncanny, this volume is an essential cornerstone for any library of world literature and avant-garde classics.
  
  Be careful what you wish for in the fog of St. Petersburg. Buy "The Complete Novels of Nikolai Gogol" today and own the work of a true visionary.

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  The cruise of the canoe club

  W. L. ALDEN

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  IT is a very easy thing for four boys to make up their minds to get four canoes and to go on a canoe cruise, but it is not always so easy to carry out such a project—as Charley Smith, Tom Schuyler, Harry Wilson, and Joe Sharpe discovered. Canoes cost money; and though some canoes cost more than others, it is impossible to buy a new wooden canoe of an approved model for less than seventy-five dollars. Four canoes, at seventy-five dollars each, would cost altogether three hundred dollars. As the entire amount of pocket-money in the possession of the boys was only seven dollars and thirteen cents, it was clear that they were not precisely in a position to buy canoes......

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