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With an introduction by Jerry W. Ward, Jr. Black Boy is a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. An enduring story of one young man's coming off age during a particular time and place, Black Boy remains a seminal text in our history about what it means to be a man, black, and Southern in America. "Superb...The Library of America has insured that most of Wright's major texts are now available as he wanted them to be tread...Most important of all is the opportunity we now have to hear a great American writer speak with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives." --Alfred Kazin, New York Time Book Review "The publication of this new edition is not just an editorial innovation, it is a major event in American literary history." --Andrew Delbanco, New Republic

Humour: The well-known story about an American family who moves into an old English castle. We follow the trag-comic complications between a poor ghost and the modern American family.

Part of the High Impact series this classic text is retold in an accessible style for those with a reading age of six to seven years. Can Sherlock Holmes solve the mystery of the death of Helen's sister in time to save Helen's own life?

Sherlock Holmes, a true English gentleman with the manners of an aristocrat, captivates readers with his clairvoyance and absolute logical reasoning, as he elucidates crimes through precise deduction based on the slightest clues. In the most famous novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Hound of the Baskervilles," Sherlock Holmes encounters a case that, at first glance, appears free of crime. He is intrigued precisely because everything seems in order, yet the death of Sir Charles Baskerville is shrouded in a dark mystery. Is it really possible that generations of the Baskerville family are cursed and threatened by a creature from the marshes? Or is it the work of a cunning human hand? Detective Holmes and his inseparable friend, Dr. Watson, set to work to uncover the truth behind this chilling enigma.

"The Bottle Imp" is an 1891 short story by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson usually found in the short story collection "Island Nights' Entertainments." It was first published in the "New York Herald" (February-March 1891) and "Black and White" London (March-April 1891). In it, the protagonist buys a bottle with an imp inside that grants wishes. However, the bottle is cursed; if the holder dies bearing it, his or her soul is forfeit to hell.

The city of Vienna, one February after the Second World War, is ruined, cold and full of underground activity. To this city comes Rollo Martins, a writer from England, to meet his old school friend and hero Harry Lime who is doing such good work at International Refugee Office.