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Uncle Tom's Cabin (Knickerbocker Classics) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Category: Classic | Series: Knickerbocker Classics
What does it mean to be free? The first black hero of literature, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Tom is a slave who suffers for refusing to obey his white oppressors. Few books have changed the world as much as Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was published in 1852, nine years before the start of the American Civil Wa ...Show more
Wuthering Heights (Knickerbocker Classics) by Emily Brontë
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Knickerbocker Classics
Since its original publication in 1847, the tempestuous relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine has long echoed on the moors. After being spurned by his lover and degraded by his adoptive family, Heathcliff leaves his home in Yorkshire, only to return wealthy, educated, and seeking retribution. Ob ...Show more