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In the 1920s, American journalist Bruce Reynolds fled a country ruled by Prohibition, with the Great Depression looming just around the corner. Having settled down in Paris, he invites the reader to do the exact same.
This cynical travel guide urges you not to pretend that the Eiffel Tower matters more to you than a good drink and a little flirting. Instead of hitting the theater, he advises spending your days lounging in cafes and people-watching; instead of marching through museums, he suggests just drifting through the streets and peeking into windows. It sounds economical, and shockingly progressive for its time, as the tips are tailored for both men and women.
For travelers of the 2020s, this is a must-pack book before heading to France. Who knows where it might lead you?

During Prohibition in the United States, many cocktail books were published—private ownership of alcohol and drinking it at home with family and friends were not prohibited. Against this backdrop, "The Home Bartender's Guide and Song Book" stands out for its humor and creative approach. Authors present themselves as reckless drunks who know hundreds of types of drinks, from bar classics to oddities like the Baby Fingers and the Tom and Jerry.…

Before you is the grandfather of modern end-of-the-world blockbusters, echoing films like Don't Look Up (2021) and The Day After Tomorrow (2004). The main character, a brilliant scientist and conservative madman Cosmo Versál, single-handedly tries to save humanity from imminent doom. Having predicted Earth's collision with a cosmic watery nebula, he builds a modern-day ark and watches entire continents vanish into the depths of the sea. Yet, this does not trouble him—he dreams of a brave new world where politicians, capitalists, and other "scum" of society are sleeping with the fishes once and for all.…

Jim Tully’s "A Hobo Autobiography" is no infantile bourgeois tourist diary; it is a raw, brutal document of an era. Along with the author, who is nearly identical to his own protagonist, you will sleep in filthy flophouses, hop moving freight trains, run from the police, steal Dostoevsky novels from libraries, and comment on the absolute bottom of American life with tragicomic cynicism. Paradoxically, this book is also a unique success story and a twisted embodiment of the American Dream. In the end, Tully manages to monetize his hardships: he becomes a famous writer, and his magnum opus, a manifesto of the vagabond lifestyle, is adapted by Hollywood.

Born into slavery on a plantation in Maryland, Frederick Douglass was able to escape in 1838, when he was 20. He went on to become a social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman, one of the most prominent figures in American history. Narrative (1845) is the first of the three autobiographies he wrote. The Library of Congress named it one of the “88 Books That Shaped America.”

Published in 1861 under a pseudonym, this autobiography is a unique account of the struggles and sexual abuse that enslaved women faced. Up until the 1980s, the book was widely dismissed as fiction. But it is not. For decades now, Harriet Jacobs has been recognized as a central figure of abolitionist literature, but her book is also filled with radical feminist ideas. She is an icon of female resistance.

In 2018, The New York Times launched “Overlooked,” a series of obituaries for remarkable people whose deaths the paper had never reported. Among the very first was an obituary for Ida B. Wells, who was born into slavery in 1862 and became one of the best-known African American women of her time. A leader of the early civil rights movement, she pioneered methods of investigative journalism that are still used today. Her best-known works, including The Red Record, are devoted to the horrific practice of lynching in the American South.

“Few books make history and fewer still become foundational texts for the movements and struggles of an entire people,” wrote Columbia professor Manning Marable, a biographer of W. E. B. Du Bois. This collection of fourteen essays, each prefaced with lines of verse and a bar of music from a spiritual, is a seminal sociological exploration of the African American experience and a cornerstone of American literature.

This 1872 book was written by the “Father of the Underground Railroad” himself, the prominent Philadelphia abolitionist William Still. It chronicles the stories and methods of hundreds of enslaved people who escaped from the South to freedom through a network of secret routes and safe houses. A truly unique collection of narratives, letters, sketches, and historical documents.

Learn from the author of “Treasure Island” and “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.” How to choose words and structure sentences? Why is literary work similar to architecture? Do you need maps to write a good book? This collection of late XIX century essays by Robbert Louis Sevenson examines all of the key elements and challenges of the craft.