A Novel of Gilded Age New York Marge Piercy 2005 425p 6 x 9 Post–Civil War New York City is the battleground of the American dream. In this era of free love, emerging rights of women, and brutal sexual repression, Freydeh, a spirited young Jewish immigrant, toils at different … Continue reading Sex Wars
Douglas Day 1991 270p 6 x 9 Part biography and part polemic directed against the failed opportunities of the Revolution, the book takes the form of notebooks scribbled by Flores Magon in the Leavenworth (Kansas) penitentiary where he is imprisoned for having violated United States neutrality laws. Flashbacks cover … Continue reading The Prison Notebooks of Ricardo Flores Magon
A Story of Ford-America Upton Sinclair 1937 119p 5 x 8 The Flivver King stands among the finest of modern American historical novels. It is history as it ought to be written – from the bottom up and the top down, with monumental sensitivity to the compromise and conflict between the two extremes. Its two … Continue reading The Flivver King
A Novel Margaret Atwood 1996 468p 5.5 x 8 Atwood takes us back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and … Continue reading Alias Grace
Marge Piercy 1996 496p 6 x 9 In this splendid, thought-provoking historical fiction, Marge Piercy brings to vibrant life three women who play prominent roles in the tumultuous, bloody French Revolution – as well as their more famous male counterparts. $4-12 Other works involving the french revolution, feminism, historical … Continue reading City of Darkness, City of Light