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The publication of "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois came in 1903 during a period of significant racial tension as well as division across the United States. After the Civil War ended in...

Renowned for her Anne of Green Gables" series L.M. Montgomery again captures the enchantment of childhood the beauty of rural landscapes and the importance of imagination and storytelling, in her...

Little Black Mingo is the hero of the tale based in India. She resides with a vicious older woman called Black Noggy who systematically assaults her. The old lady takes Mingo to the river to obtain...

The book "The Story of Mankind" by Hendrik Van Loon's offers an intriguing look into both the history it explains - and the period it had been authored -. The book could be more appreciated in case...

Beatrix Potter wrote and illustrated the tale of the Story of Miss Moppet, a tale of teasing starring a kitten and a mice, that had been printed in 1906 the Christmas season. Potter was born in...

The Sun Also Rises is a literary masterwork of classic literature.Widely considered by audiences and literary critics to be The Great American Novel.As relevant today as it was almost 100 years...

Beatrix Potter's kid's Tale, "The Tale of Ginger & Pickles," tells the tale of a village shop run by Ginger, with Pickles, a cat, a terrrier. The pair has the animal residents with products on credit...

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is a book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in 1908. Jemima Puddle-Duck is not allowed to keep the eggs she lays at...

Beatrix Potter author of the children's story "The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse" that had been initially published in 1918. It's based upon a fable by Aesop called "The Town Mouse and the Country mouse...

"The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher" is a children's book written by Beatrix Potter and first published in 1906. What follows is a brief overview: Mr. Jeremy Fisher is a frog that resides in a little damp...

"The Tale of Peter Rabbit" as a classic children's story. Peter is a little rabbit that ignores his mother's warning and enters Mr McGregor's garden to sabotage his vegetables. Peter encounters...

Beatrix Potter authored the children's book "The Tale of Timmy Tiptoos" that had been initially published in 1911. She authored many stories of anthropomorphic animals in a pastoral environment - one...

Charles Perrault published the fairy Tales in "The tales of Mother Goose" in the late 17th century. The stories are now fundamental to Western childhood literature and also include numerous lessons...

Margery Williams, author of "The Velveteen Rabbit," looked to the childhood of her for inspiration. "I am extremely fond of animals," she told an interviewer in 1927. "I was extremely fond of my own...

Edith Wharton is renowned for her nonfiction work "The writing of Fiction" and provides classic guidance on Writing and reading. Wharton was the very first female to win, in fact, a Pulitzer Prize...

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe's is greatly grounded in the historic setting of 19th century America, particularly the subject of slavery as well as the increasing rivalries between...

Winesburg, Ohio (full title: Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life) is a 1919 short story cycle by the American author Sherwood Anderson. The work is structured around the life of...

A. A. Milne called the character Winnie-the-Pooh after a teddy bear owned and operated by the boy of his, Christopher Robin Milne, on whom the character Christopher Robin was grounded. Shepard in...

Emily Bront's "Wuthering Heights" is an intense and brooding novel set deep within the Yorkshire moors of England. The story centers on a two - generation love affair between the Earnshaws and the...

The science fiction short story "Youth" by Isaac Asimov explores themes of innocence, discovery as well as interstellar relations, woven with an underlying story about beauty and alien life.Red and...