Author: Solomon NorthupPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781536968767
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The most popular book for all readers.
Author: Chocolate - With Audio Level 2 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library
Author: Janet Hardy-GouldPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0194632415
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
A level 2 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Janet Hardy-Gould. You can drink it, and you can cook with it. You can even make buildings, dresses and hats out of it. You can give it to somebody as a present, or you can buy it for yourself. And of course you can eat it. Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate, chocolates with gold on the outside – everybody loves chocolate. Follow its story, from the forests of Central America hundreds of years ago, through Africa, Europe, and the United States, to the growing markets of India and China. Perhaps you need a little something to eat while you read . . .
Author: Solomon Northup
Author: Solomon NorthupTwelve Years a Slave (First International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
Author: Solomon NorthupPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393623424
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This Norton Critical Edition of Solomon Northup’s harrowing autobiography is based on the 1853 first edition. It is accompanied by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kevin Burke’s introduction and detailed explanatory footnotes. The Norton Critical Edition also includes: · The illustrations printed in the original book. · Contemporary sources (1853—62), among them newspaper accounts of Northup’s kidnapping and ordeal and commentary by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Thomas W. MacMahon. · A Genealogy of Secondary Sources (1880-2015) presenting twenty-four voices spanning three centuries on the memoir’s major themes. Contributors include George Washington Williams, Marion Wilson Starling, Kenneth Stampp, Robert B. Stepto, Trish Loughran, and David Fiske, Clifford W. Brown, Jr., and Rachel Seligman, among others. · The 2013 film adaptation—12 Years a Slave—fully considered, with criticism and major reviews of the film as well as Henry Louis Gates's three interviews with its director, Steve McQueen. · A Chronology and Selected Bibliography.
Author: Twelve Years a Slave
Author: Solomon NorthupPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
In 1841, African American Solomon Northup, a free man, is kidnapped and forced into slavery under the name 'Platt' for 12 years. He faces the hardships of being a slave under the hands of a few different slave owners. Through faith, will power, and courage Northup must survive and endure those 12 years as a slave.
Author: Solomon NORTHUP
Author: Solomon Northup