简介:John Walden, a young black man, decides to pass for white in order to earn what he feels is his share of the American dream. Without sentimentality, this novel probes deeply into the white South's obsessions with race and privilege....
简介:This is the story of a bad boy. Well not such a very bad but a pretty bad boy; and I ought to know for I am or rather I was that boy myself. (Excerpt)...
简介:An excerpt: All Lustadt was in an uproar. The mad king had escaped. Little knots of excited men stood upon the street corners listening to each latest rumor concerning this most absorbing occurrence. Before the palace a great crowd surged t...
简介:The Magician is an early W. Somerset Maugham novel, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life. Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name O...
简介:In the Musketeers' final adventure, D'Artagnan remains in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV after the Three Musketeers have retired and gone their separate ways. Meanwhile, a mysterious prisoner in an iron mask wastes away deep insi...