Subject for September, 2020
Japanese Girls and Women
Subject: Nonfiction
Bacon evocatively depicts Japanese women unsettled by their modern education, yet saddled with traditional cultural expectations. With its insight into Japan’s class syste...
Tags: Nonfiction, History, Japan
The Time Machine
Subject: Science Fiction
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the c...
Tags: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Time Travel
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Subject: Plays
William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. His plays are constantly studied, performed an...
Tags: Poetry, Fiction, Literature, Plays, Collections
The Devil’s Dictionary
Subject: Nonfiction
The Devil’s Dictionary is a satirical dictionary written by American Civil War soldier, journalist, and writer Ambrose Bierce consisting of common words followed by humoro...
Tags: Humor, Nonfiction, Reference, Comedy
The Memoirs, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas
Subject: Nonfiction
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, as Henry Steele Commager has said, “will illuminate, as does no comparable body of private papers, the whole course of our history from the 1760’...
Tags: American, Autobiography, Memoir
Second Treatise of Government
Subject: Philosophy
Second Treatise of Government (or Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Over...
Tags: Philosophy, Politics, Nonfiction, History
The Problems of Philosophy
Subject: Philosophy
The Problems of Philosophy is a 1912 book by the philosopher Bertrand Russell, in which the author attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy....
Tags: Philosophy, Nonfiction, History, Science
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself
Subject: Historical
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, first published in 1789 in London, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. The narrati...
Tags: Classics, Politics, Historical, African