First Lady of the Seeing Eye

Morris Frank & Blake Clark First Lady of the Seeing Eye   Buddy, ‘first lady of the seeing eye’ tells much more than just the history of the introduction of guide dogs to the United States. The author, Morris Frank, tells how he becomes blind at a young...

Middlemarch

George Eliot Middlemarch   Middlemarch was written by a woman, who used a man’s name because she did not want her work to be judged according to the prejudices against women that were usual during her lifetime. The story is set in the nineteenth century, during...

Resurrection: The Awakening

Leo Tolstoy Resurrection: The Awakening Original Russian Title: Воскресение The young nobleman Nekhlyudov serves as a juror during the trial of a young woman whom he recognizes as she appears in court: Katerina (Katyusha) Maslova, whom he had seduced ten years before...