This novel is about the evil influence of a woman in Egson Heath, a gloomy moor in southern England. Clym Yeobright, tired of Paris city life, returns to open a school on Egdon Heath, and in spite of his mother's opposition marries Eustacia. Mrs. Yeobright walks over to her son's cottage, but Eustacia, entertaining her lover Wildeve, does not answer the door. Mrs. Yeobright is found by Clym, unconscious and dying of an adder bite. Clym blames Eustacia,...

Archy, a New York City cockroach, and Mehitabel, a New York City alley cat, were characters created by "The Evening Sun" columnist Donald Robert Perry Marquis. The subject of hundreds of humorous poems and stories, Archy is portrayed as having been a free verse poet in a previous life who takes to writing stories and poems on an old typewriter at the office of a newspaper after everyone has gone home. Archy's best friend is the alley cat Mehitabel...

The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass's Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist form his birth into slavery to his escape to the North in 1838. Douglass tells how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man who could only live free or die. In addition to Douglass's classic autobiography,...