Arkham House: The first 20 years; 1939-1959

How to write Little Blue Books

Lloyd E. Smith

The work is a practical handbook aimed at prospective contributors to the five‑cent pocket series known as…

A Brief Account of the Educational Publishing Business in the United States

William Edmond Pulsifer

Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s “Life on the Mississippi” is a first‑hand travel memoir that plunges the reader into the gritty…

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

The work is an autobiographical account attributed to Benjamin Franklin, the eighteenth‑century American…

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Frederick Douglass

This work is an autobiographical narrative by Frederick Douglass, the former enslaved man who became a…

The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois

The work is a nonfiction meditation on the condition of African Americans at the turn of the twentieth…