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  • Soulcatcher

    And Other Stories

    by Charles Johnson ...
    Short stories inspired by the history of slavery in America, by the National Book Award–winning author of Middle Passage.Nothing has had as profound an effect on American life as slavery. For blacks and whites alike, the experience has left us with a conflicted and contradictory history. Now, famed novelist Charles Johnson, whose Middle Passage won the National Book Award, presents a dozen tales ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oxherding Tale

    A Novel

    by Charles Johnson ...
    From National Book Award–winning author, Charles Johnson, comes a wonderful mythic novel, part slave narrative, part comedy, part myth**—**first published in 1982 this phenomenally imaginative work marries Johnson's knowledge of philosophy, religion, race and history.One night in the antebellum South, a slave owner and his African American butler stay up to all hours until, too drunk to face their ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Harvard Classics - Complete Collection of the Greatest Works of World Literature

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Depths of Literature and Human Thought

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Thomas Carlyle, Plato, Charles Darwin, Dante Alighieri, Euripides, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Lamb, Samuel Johnson, John Stuart Mill0, David Hume1, Joseph Addison2, Leigh Hunt3, Epictetus4, Thomas De Quincey5, Samuel Taylor Coleridge6, Jonathan Swift7, Christopher Marlowe8, Jacob Grimm9, Wilhelm Grimm0, William Hazlitt1, Marcus Tullius Cicero2, Daniel Defoe3, Aesop4, Richard Henry Dana5, John Dryden6, Pedro Calderón de la Barca7, John Ruskin8, Robert Burns9, David Garrick0, Ralph Waldo Emerson1, Izaak Walton2, John Bunyan3, Homer4, Edmund Burke5, Plutarch6, Molière7, Aeschylus8, Sophocles9, William Makepeace Thackeray0, Benjamin Franklin1, Pierre Corneille2, Jean Racine3, Robert Browning4, Oliver Goldsmith5, John Milton6, Aristophanes7, Virgil8, Richard Brinsley Sheridan9, William Penn0, Philip Sidney1, Francis Bacon2, Adam Smith3, Alessandro Manzoni4, Abraham Cowley5, Ben Jonson6, John Woolman7, Sydney Smith8, Marcus Aurelius9, Hans Christian Andersen0, George Gordon Byron1, Thomas à Kempis2, Richard Steele3, Thomas Browne4, Thomas Babington Macaulay5, Miguel de Cervantes6, Friedrich von Schiller7, Pliny the Younger8, Saint Augustine9, Griffin Ellmouth2 ...
    The 'Harvard Classics - Complete Collection of the Greatest Works of World Literature' offers an unparalleled voyage through the intellectual and artistic milestones that have shaped human thought and expression. This anthology traverses various literary styles, from the immortality of epic poetry to the rigor of philosophical discourse and the whimsy of moral fables. Each piece is meticulously ... Read more

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  • The Pirate Bay Collection: History, Trues Stories & Most Famous Pirate Novels

    Classic Pirate Tales of Treasure, Mutiny, Haunted Seas, and Maritime Legend

    by Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Charles Kingsley, Howard Pyle, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas, Frederick Marryat, Washington Irving, Harold MacGrath, Joseph Lewis French, William Clark Russell, Harry Collingwood, Max Pemberton, Charles Boardman Hawes, L. Frank Baum, J. M. Barrie, R. M. Ballantyne, G. A. Henty, J. Allan Dunn, Robert E. Howard, F. Scott Fitzgerald, W. H. G. Kingston, Charles Johnson, Maturin Murray Ballou ...
    The Pirate Bay Collection charts the pirate figure across history, purported true accounts, romance, adventure, Gothic terror, and sea narrative. Ranging from early modern chronicles to nineteenth- and twentieth-century popular fiction, it reveals piracy as both maritime reality and imaginative frontier: a site of violence, commerce, rebellion, empire, and freedom. Canonical tales of hidden ... Read more

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  • The Pirate Bay Collection: History, Trues Stories & Most Famous Pirate Novels

    History of Pirates, Trues Stories & Most Famous Pirate Novels

    by Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Charles Kingsley, Howard Pyle, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas, Frederick Marryat, Washington Irving, Harold MacGrath, Joseph Lewis French, William Clark Russell, Harry Collingwood, Max Pemberton, Charles Boardman Hawes, L. Frank Baum, J. M. Barrie, R. M. Ballantyne, G. A. Henty, J. Allan Dunn, Robert E. Howard, F. Scott Fitzgerald, W. H. G. Kingston, Charles Johnson, Maturin Murray Ballou ...
    Set sail on a thrilling literary expedition with *The Pirate Bay Collection: History, True Stories & Most Famous Pirate Novels*, an anthology that captures the essence of nautical adventure through the ages. This collection offers an immersive foray into the tempestuous world of piracy, threading together tales of swashbuckling exploits, moral quandaries, and the eternal quest for freedom across ... Read more

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  • Middle Passage

    A Graphic Novel Adaptation

    by Charles Johnson, Reginald Hudlin ...
    A powerful graphic novel adaptation of the Charles R. Johnson’s National Book Award–winning American classic Middle Passage, which deftly weaves intensely researched history of the American slave trade and speculative fiction with the traditions of classic adventure talesA riveting and raw parable of the Black experience in America, this graphic novel adaptation of Charles R. Johnson’s National ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • A General History of the Pyrates

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Charles Johnson ...
    This sweeping history of piracy opens with a promise of both entertainment and instruction, tracing the rise of sea-roving from Providence and the West Indies to the far reaches of the Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and beyond. It presents notorious captains such as Avery, Teach, Bonnet, Rackam, Davis, and Roberts, alongside the extraordinary women Mary Read and Anne Bonny, while insisting on the truth ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Jolly Roger Tales: 60+ Pirate Novels, Treasure-Hunt Tales & Sea Adventures

    Blackbeard, Captain Blood, Facing the Flag, Treasure Island, The Gold-Bug, Captain Singleton…

    by Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Howard Pyle, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Le Gallienne, Daniel Defoe, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Ellms, Frederick Marryat, Harold MacGrath, Joseph Lewis French, Harry Collingwood, Stanley Lane-Poole, Charles Boardman Hawes, L. Frank Baum, J. M. Barrie, R. M. Ballantyne, G. A. Henty, J. D. Jerrold Kelley, J. Allan Dunn, Robert E. Howard, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sir Walter Scott, Ralph D. Paine, Captain Charles Johnson, W. H. G. Kingston, Currey E. Hamilton, John Esquemeling ...
    In 'The Jolly Roger Tales: 60+ Pirate Novels, Treasure-Hunt Tales & Sea Adventures', readers are taken on an enthralling voyage across the high seas with an anthology that captures the peril and allure of pirate literature. Comprising a rich tapestry of stories, the collection ranges from high-stakes treasure hunts to profound sea odysseys, exploring themes of adventure, moral ambiguity, and the ... Read more

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  • The Jolly Roger Tales: 60+ Pirate Novels, Treasure-Hunt Tales & Sea Adventures

    Blackbeard, Captain Blood, Facing the Flag, Treasure Island, The Gold-Bug, Captain Singleton…

    by Captain Charles Johnson, Howard Pyle, Ralph D. Paine, Charles Ellms, Currey E. Hamilton, John Esquemeling, J. D. Jerrold Kelley, Stanley Lane-Poole, Daniel Defoe, Robert Louis Stevenson0, Sir Walter Scott1, Richard Le Gallienne2, Edgar Allan Poe3, Jack London4, Jules Verne5, Charles Boardman Hawes6, J. M. Barrie7, Arthur Conan Doyle8, Frederick Marryat9, R. M. Ballantyne0, Charles Dickens1, L. Frank Baum2, J. Allan Dunn3, Robert E. Howard4, James Fenimore Cooper5, Alexandre Dumas6, William Hope Hodgson7, F. Scott Fitzgerald8, Harold MacGrath9, Harry Collingwood0, W. H. G. Kingston1, G. A. Henty2, Joseph Lewis French3 ...
    The 'The Jolly Roger Tales: 60+ Pirate Novels, Treasure-Hunt Tales & Sea Adventures' serves as a treasure chest of maritime narratives, uniting a spectrum of voices that sail across various oceans of literary styles and epochs. This anthology not only recounts high-seas adventures but also plumbs the depths of human ambition, camaraderie, and betrayal. From swashbuckling pirates to stoic ... Read more

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  • Dreamer

    A Novel

    by Charles Johnson ...
    From the National Book Award-winning author of Middle Passage, a fearless fictional portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his pivotal moment in American history.Set against the tensions of Civil Rights era America, Dreamer is a remarkable fictional excursion into the last two years of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, when the political and personal pressures on this country's most preeminent ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Way of the Writer

    Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling

    by Charles Johnson ...
    From Charles Johnson—a National Book Award winner, Professor Emeritus at University of Washington, and one of America’s preeminent scholars on literature and race—comes an instructive, inspiring guide to the craft and art of writing.An award-winning novelist, philosopher, essayist, screenwriter, professor, and cartoonist, Charles Johnson has devoted his life to creative pursuit. His 1990 National ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Deadly Sails - Complete Collection

    History of Pirates, Trues Stories about the Most Notorious Pirates & Most Famous Pirate Novels

    by Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Charles Kingsley, Howard Pyle, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas, Frederick Marryat, Washington Irving, Harold MacGrath, Joseph Lewis French, William Clark Russell, Harry Collingwood, Max Pemberton, Charles Boardman Hawes, L. Frank Baum, J. M. Barrie, R. M. Ballantyne, G. A. Henty, J. Allan Dunn, Robert E. Howard, F. Scott Fitzgerald, W. H. G. Kingston, Charles Johnson, Maturin Murray Ballou ...
    Deadly Sails - Complete Collection stands as a compelling convergence of seafaring tales masterfully crafted by a panoply of literary giants. This anthology captures the tumultuous dance of oceans and men, where adventures veer into suspenseful encounters and reflections on power, ambition, and survival surface as prominent themes. The assemblage of stories, ranging from high-seas adventure to the ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus