The Selling of Joseph


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The Selling of Joseph


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This page-turning novel unfolds against the backdrop of world events that shaped the life of a prominent architect from Vienna and his family. The gathering storm of World War II extinguished the architect’s flourishing career and his budding love affair with the wife of one of Vienna’s prominent bankers when the Nazis seized power over Austria. As the architect flees his home, he barters his and his family’s life for an old master’s painting. This stunning tale of courage, passion, and compassion weaves together a cast of unforgettable characters. The architect’s granddaughter discovers the shocking truth about the old master’s missing painting, The Selling of Joseph, and the unforgettable life story of her mother’s tribulation and triumph. A shocking ending is looming ahead.




Thoughts Upon Slavery


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Genesis


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Verse-by-verse commentary on the book of Genesis.




Against Slavery


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"An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike."—Amazon.com This colleciton assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade, featuring writing by William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.







A House Divided


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The English Literatures of America


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The English Literatures of America redefines colonial American literatures, sweeping from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to the West Indies and Guiana. The book begins with the first colonization of the Americas and stretches beyond the Revolution to the early national period. Many texts are collected here for the first time; others are recognized masterpieces of the canon--both British and American--that can now be read in their Atlantic context. By emphasizing the culture of empire and by representing a transatlantic dialogue, The English Literatures of America allows a new way to understand colonial literature both in the United States and abroad.