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Criminal sociology by Enrico Ferri( )

4 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 1,835 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This is a reproduction of the 1900 version of the text. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass : an American slave by Frederick Douglass( )

4 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 1,833 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An autobiographical account of a childhood and youth spent in slavery by a man who became a great abolitionist and leader of anti-slavery activity

The price she paid : a novel by David Graham Phillips( )

4 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 1,829 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Old Indian legends by Zitkala-S̈a( )

4 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 1,827 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Early in the century a Sioux woman published these legends that she learned during her childhood on the Yankton Reservation

The Aspern papers by Henry James( )

4 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 1,826 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

1800s Venice is the setting for this tale of greed and obsession: a crumbling, beautiful, mysterious place where the incredible becomes real and the strange is almost commonplace. In fervent pursuit of the letters written by a famous deceased poet to a former lover, the anonymous narrator becomes a lodger under a false name in the dilapidated palazzo of the woman and her spinster niece, in the hope of procuring his prize. The resulting clash of wills and cat-and-mouse games among the trio reveal the deepest motivations that drive human nature - and just how far is the narrator willing to go to get what he wants?

The vicar of Wakefield : a tale supposed to be written by himself by Oliver Goldsmith( )

4 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 1,826 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Details the romantic intrigues in the family of a country vicar in eighteenth century England

The mysterious affair at Styles : a Hercule Poirot mystery by Agatha Christie( )

5 editions published between 1997 and 2000 in English and held by 1,826 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Set in the summer of 1917, the story follows the war-wounded Captain Hastings to the Styles St. Mary estate of his friend John Cavendish. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed mother to a suspicious younger man. In the village, Hastings runs into his old friend Hercule Poirot and, when the estate's trouble turns deadly, the friends unite to solve a most baffling case

A hero of our time : a novel by Mikhail I︠U︡rʹevich Lermontov( )

2 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 1,825 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"A hero of our time", is a Russian classic, telling the story of a young lieutenant in the Russian Army in the early 1800's

Nation by Charlotte Perkins Gilman( )

5 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 1,787 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Paradise lost, and other poems by John Milton( )

4 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 1,784 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The complete epic poem chronicling Man's fall from Grace, and Satan's defiant role leading the other angels in rebellion against God