Biography & Autobiography

The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings

The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2003-05-27

Type: BOOK

Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.


Slaves

The African

The African

Publisher: Black Classics

Published: 1998

Type: BOOK

The first book ever to be published by a black man in Britain, this story of Equiano's life from freedom in Africa through slavery and back to freedom was a best-seller when first issued in 1789.


Biography & Autobiography

The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings

The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2003-05-27

Type: BOOK

... The interesting narrative and other writings / Olaudah Equiano ; edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent Carretta . P. cm . ISBN 0 14 24.3716 6 1. Equiano , Olaudah , b . 1745. 2. Slaves - Great Britain - Biography . 3. Slaves ...


Biography & Autobiography

Equiano, the African

Equiano, the African

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2022-09-01

Type: BOOK

This definitive biography tells the story of the former slave Olaudah Equiano (1745?–1797), who in his day was the English-speaking world’s most renowned person of African descent.


History

The Warmth of Other Suns

The Warmth of Other Suns

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-10-04

Type: BOOK

Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is a modern classic.


Literary Criticism

The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time

The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Type: BOOK

It is also a companion volume to McCrum's very successful 100 Best Novels published by Galileo in 2015. The list of books starts in 1611 with the King James Bible and ends in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction.


Fiction

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Publisher: SAMPI Books

Published: 2024-02-05

Type: BOOK

After a mutiny and various adversities, including cannibalism and natural disasters, the story culminates in a mysterious and inconclusive encounter at the South Pole.


Fiction

Where the Crawdads Sing

Where the Crawdads Sing

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-03-30

Type: BOOK

Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder.