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Collected Stories of Frank O’Connor
Collected Stories is a collection of 67 of Frank O’Connor’s best-known short stories, first published in 1981. The introduction to the collection was written by celebrated literary critic Richard Ellmann. O’Connor expert Michael A. Steinman has pointed out that this collection is really “more ‘selected’ than ‘collected’” since “it [only] contains one-third of O’Connor’s stories”.
France and England in North America
Multi-volume history of the European colonization of North America, written by Francis Parkman and published between 1865 and 1892, which highlights the military struggles between France and Great Britain
Pensees
Collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal
Dreams from My Father
Memoir by Barack Obama that explores the events of his early years in Honolulu and Chicago until his entry into Harvard Law School in 1988. Obama originally published his memoir in 1995, when he was starting his political campaign for the Illinois Senate
Little Bear
Little Bear is a series of children’s books, primarily involving the interaction of Little Bear (an anthropomorphic cub) and Mother Bear (his mother), written by Else Holmelund Minarik and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Originally, the stories were simple, but eventually became more sophisticated in subsequent books as the plot and characters expanded. The first four …