Money, politics, and social protest

11 books

An American SuffragetteIsaac Newton Stevens · 1911A 1911 novel by Isaac Newton Stevens, An American Suffragette follows celebrated doctor John Earl, newly returned from India, as his romance, involvement in the women's suffrage movement, and mysterious murder charges intertwine in early twentieth-century New York.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Friday, the Thirteenth: A NovelThomas William Lawson · 1907A 1907 novel by Thomas William Lawson about a Wall Street panic on Friday the thirteenth, told by banker Jim Randolph as he recalls his friendship with trader Bob Brownley and races to stop his friend from destroying the market.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

King Midas: a RomanceUpton Sinclair · 1901A 1901 romance novel by Upton Sinclair, King Midas follows a young poet who, waiting at a forest spring one May morning, watches a beautiful girl approach, in a story evoking music, love, and the ideal of turning all things to gold.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Little Lost SisterVirginia Brooks · 1914A 1914 novel about Elsie Welcome, a young factory girl working in a Millville button mill for low wages, whose need for sympathy and support leaves her vulnerable to temptation. The story follows her fate and the efforts of family and friends to find and rescue her.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and RiseDavid Graham Phillips · 1917A 1917 two-volume novel by David Graham Phillips, published posthumously, tracing the life of Susan Lenox, a girl born in a small Ohio River town whose story examines candidly the relations between men and women and the circumstances that shape them.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored ManJames Weldon Johnson · 1912A 1912 fictional autobiography narrated by a light-skinned Black man born in the post-Civil War South, who recounts his childhood, musical gifts, and life passing between Black and white worlds, revealing racial conditions in America.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton MillsJohn Trotwood Moore · 1906An illustrated 1906 novel set in the cotton mills and cotton fields of the Tennessee Valley in Reconstruction-era Alabama, centered on a bishop's involvement with mill workers and their families.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Candidate: A Political RomanceJoseph A. Altsheler · 1905A 1905 political romance novel about James Madison Grayson, a young lawyer unexpectedly nominated as a dark-horse presidential candidate, and his friendship with Harley, a journalist who covers his campaign.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Dominant DollarWill Lillibridge · 1905A 1909 novel by Will Lillibridge about Darley Roberts, a businessman who measures everything in dollars and cents, and his friendship with an idealistic university chemist as their opposing outlooks on money, ambition, and love threaten to drive them apart.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The FlagHomer Greene · 1903A boys' novel in which Penfield Butler, a boy living with his stern grandfather in Chestnut Hill, becomes captain of the Hilltops, rivals of the Valley boys, as the school principal tries to unite the feuding factions through a patriotic drive to raise money for a flag.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The JungleUpton Sinclair · 1906A 1906 novel by Upton Sinclair following Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus, whose wedding feast opens the story of his young family making a new life in Chicago's stockyards district among its working-class immigrant community.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية