Penguin American Library
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly
$12.00 Add to cartThe novel that changed the course of American history
Published in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel was a powerful indictment of slavery in America. Describing the many trials and eventual escape t- Series: Penguin American Library
- Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 25 1981
- ISBN10: 0140390030
- Language: English
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Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the 1860’s through the 1890s, Horatio Alger wrote hundreds of novels to teach young boys the merits of honesty, hard work, and cheerfulness in the face of adversity. As Carl Bode points out in hi… [more below]
- Series: Penguin American Library
- Author: Alger, Horatio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 08 1985
- ISBN10: 0140390332
- Language: English
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The Rise of Silas Lapham
$20.00 Add to cartWilliam Dean Howells’ richly humorous characterization of a self-made millionaire in Boston society provides a paradigm of American culture in the Gilded Age. After establishing a fortune in the paint… [more below]
- Series: Penguin American Library
- Author: Howells, William Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 28 1983
- ISBN10: 0140390308
- Language: English
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Roughing It
$17.00 Add to cartA marvelously vivid, many-sided portrait of America’s frontier days.
Mark Twain’s rambling took him all over the American West during teh 1860’s. He prospected for gold and silver, speculated on timb- Series: Penguin American Library
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 17 1981
- ISBN10: 0140390103
- Language: English
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Martin Eden
$19.00 Add to cartJack London’s semiautobiographical critique of individualism that touches on contemporary issues like socialism and mental illness, now two major motion pictures―one directed by Pietro Marcello,… [more below]
- Series: Penguin American Library
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140187723
- Language: English
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The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
$17.00 Add to cartStanding at the crossroads of psychology and religion, this catalyzing work applied the scientific method to a field abounding in abstract theory. William James believed that individual religious expe… [more below]
- Series: Penguin American Library
- Author: James, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 16 1982
- ISBN10: 0140390340
- Language: English
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The Jungle
$15.00 Add to cartOne of the most powerful, provocative and enduring novels to expose social injustice ever published in the United States, Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle contains an introduction by Ronald Gottesman in Pe
- Series: Penguin American Library
- Author: Sinclair, Upton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 02 1985
- ISBN10: 0140390316
- Language: English
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Walden and Civil Disobedience
$14.00 Add to cartA transcendentalist classic on social responsibility and a manifesto that inspired modern protest movements
Critical of 19th-century America’s booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thor- Series: Penguin American Library
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 25, 1983
- ISBN10: 0140390448
- Language: English
