Books with author William Wells

The true adventures of an American Aviator of the Lafayette Flying Corps who was the only Yankee flyer fighting over General Pershing's boys of the Rainbow Division in Lorraine when they first went "Over the top." This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the world's bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this tragic yet fascinating period of human history. Each publication also includes brand new introductory essays and a timeline to help the reader place the work in its historical context.

2017 Reprint of 1853 Edition. First published in December 1853, “Clotel” was written amid then unconfirmed rumors that Thomas Jefferson had fathered children with one of his slaves. The story begins with the auction of his mistress, here called Currer, and their two daughters, Clotel and Althesa. The Virginian who buys Clotel falls in love with her, gets her pregnant, seems to promise marriage—then sells her. Escaping from the slave dealer, Clotel returns to Virginia disguised as a white man in order to rescue her daughter, Mary, a slave in her father’s house. A fast-paced and harrowing tale of slavery and freedom, of the hypocrisies of a nation founded on democratic principles, Clotel is more than a sensationalist novel. It is a founding text of the African American novelistic tradition, a brilliantly composed and richly detailed exploration of human relations in a new world in which race is a cultural construct.

Bullying has been viewed as normal for much too long. For too many years, schools, parents and even children and teenagers turned a blind eye to bullying. Because of this attitude, bullies have been allowed to have it their way without receiving any kind of punishment. These stories will show how diverse bullying can be and what tragic consequences it can have. Furthermore, they may suggest solutions to this problem, and may provide inspiration and optimism about the possibility of winning over the bullies.

Zoe is shocked when she learns they are going to stay on board a Spanish yacht called ‘The Black Pig’. How will she be able to make new friends to chill with? Thomas realises nothing this exciting has ever happened to him before. Mum is just relieved to find somewhere to stay. Besides the ship’s crew, Pedro and his parents, seem nice enough. Yet treasure lurks just beneath the waves and strange things keep happening onshore.

In a crude vessel that began as a project for a friend, George finds himself on a voyage around the world. Made of nothing but the materials it would take to build a good tree house, his boat challenges his skill and ingenuity as he struggles to keep it afloat and moving. As if the awkward boat weren't enough of a problem, George also faces off against the forces of man as wars, piracy, bureaucracy and worst of all, the wiles of a beautiful movie star, seek to waylay him.

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Clotel; or, The President's Daughter is an 1853 novel by United States author and playwright William Wells Brown about Clotel and her sister, fictional slave daughters of Thomas Jefferson. Brown, who escaped from slavery in 1834 at the age of 20, published the book in London. He was staying after a lecture tour to evade possible recapture due to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. Set in the early nineteenth century, it is considered the first novel published by an African American and is set in the United States.

Brown (c.1814-84) was a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright and historian. Born into slavery in Montgomery County, Kentucky, he escaped to Ohio in 1834 aged 20 and later settled in Boston where he worked for abolitionist causes and became a prolific writer. He was also a supporter of other causes including temperance, women's suffrage, pacifism, prison reform and an anti-tobacco movement. His novel Clotel (1853) was the first novel written by an African-American, and he was a pioneer in several different literary genres, including travel writing and drama. He was lecturing in England when the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law was passed in the US and only returned to America after his freedom had been purchased by a British couple, the Richardsons, who had done the same for Frederick Douglass. Once back in the US he gave lectures for the abolitionist movement in New York and Massachusetts and earned a reputation as a powerful orator. This memoir published in 1880 was his last work.

William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery in the Southern United States, Brown escaped to the North, where he worked for abolitionist causes and was a prolific writer and lecturer. In 1847, he published the Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself, which became a bestseller second only to Frederick Douglass' narrative. He was also a pioneer in several different literary genres, including travel writing, fiction, and drama, and wrote what is considered to be the first novel by an African American: Clotel; or, The President's Daughter (1853). However, because the novel was published in England, the book is not the first African-American novel published in the United States. Most scholars agree that Brown is the first published African-American playwright. He wrote two plays, The Experience; or, How to Give a Northern Man a Backbone (1856) and The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom (1858). Brown also wrote several historical works, including: The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements (1863), The Negro in the American Revolution (1867) and The Rising Son (1873).