Literature

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  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

  Frederick Douglass, Joshua Bennett

  First Edition

  Paperback

  One of the most influential works of literature during the abolitionist movement of the early nineteenth century, Narrative of the Life of...

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  Up from Slavery

  Booker T. Washington, Jarvis R. Givens

  First Edition

  Paperback

  One of the foremost African American intellectual leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Booker T. Washington, an educator, author, and...

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  The Scarlet Letter

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Justine S. Murison

  First Edition

  Mixed Media

  One of the most influential novels in all American literature, The Scarlet Letter is the captivating story of a Puritan woman who conceives a child...

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  Little Women (The Norton Library)

  Louisa May Alcott, Sarah Blackwood

  First Edition

  Mixed Media

  Part of the Norton Library series

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  Middlemarch

  George Eliot, Claire Jarvis

  First Edition

  Mixed Media

  A sweeping portrait of a fictional English town and its residents, newly grappling with the changes wrought by industrialism, Middlemarch (1831–...