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Silent Spring (Paperback)

By Rachel Carson, Linda Lear (Introduction by), Edward O. Wilson (Afterword by)

$15.99

ISBN: 9780618249060

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Published: Mariner Books - October 22nd, 2002

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water.

Black Boy (Paperback)

By Richard Wright, John Edgar Wideman (Foreword by)

$16.99

ISBN: 9780061130243

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Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics - March 27th, 2007

Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment--a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.

A Room of One's Own (Paperback)

By Virginia Woolf

$13.99

ISBN: 9780156787338

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Published: Mariner Books - December 27th, 1989

Virginia Woolf's landmark inquiry into women's role in society

 

In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister—a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed.