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  • The Life History and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh, 1847 
    Copyway, George (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    The Life, History, and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (1847) is a published memoir by Native American author George Copway. The novel centers on his life and time as a missionary. Not only did the novel make him Canada's ...
  • The Mysteries of Udolpho 
    Radcliffe, Ann (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) is a Gothic romance novel by English author Ann Radcliffe. The narrative follows Emily St. Aubert, a young woman who suffers misadventures that include the death of her mother and father, ...
  • The Nicomachean Ethics 
    Aristotle (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    The Nicomachean Ethics (circa 322 BC) is an ethical treatise by Aristotle. In the text, Aristotle offers a defence of the idea of eudaimonism (human flourishing or happiness) which is achieved as a result of human choice ...
  • The Odyssey 
    Homer (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    The Odyssey (originally composed in the 8th or 7th century BCE; published in English in 1614) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems by Homer. The story follows the Greek hero Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his journey ...
  • The Prince 
    Machiavelli, Niccolò (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    The Prince (1532) is a political treatise by Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. The text is an instruction guide for new princes and royals.
  • The Big Sea 
    Hughes, Langston (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    The Big Sea (1940) is a novel by American poet Langston Hughes. It chronicles Hughes's life as a young adult in Harlem and Paris in the 1920s. In Paris, he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. In Harlem, he was a rising ...
  • Their Eyes were Watching God 
    Hurston, Zora Neale (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) is a classic Harlem Renaissance novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston. The novel follows Janie Crawford as she recounts the story of her life as she journeys from a naive teenager ...
  • Oedipus at Colonus 
    Sophocles (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    Written shortly before Sophocles's death in 406 BC and produced by his grandson (also called Sophocles) at the Festival of Dionysus in 401 BC, Oedipus at Colonus (also known as Oedipus Coloneus) is one of the three Theban plays.
  • The Refugee : or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada 
    Drew, Benjamin (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada (1856)—full title A North-Side View of Slavery. The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History ...
  • Republic 
    Plato (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    Republic (circa 375 BC) is a Socratic dialogue by Plato. The text explores topics like justice, the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. It is one of the most influential works of philosophy and ...
  • The Souls of Black Folks 
    Du Bois, W.E.B. (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches (1903) is a collection of essays by American and Ghanaian sociologist and writer W. E. B. Du Bois. The book contains several essays on race with Du Bois drawing on his own ...
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave 
    Douglass, Frederick (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) is a memoir and treatise on abolition by American orator and ex-slave Frederick Douglass. Considered to be the most famous narrative written by a former slave, the text ...
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 
    Stevenson, Robert Louis (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) is a Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The story follows Gabriel John Utterson—a legal practitioner from London—as he investigates strange occurrences ...
  • The Underground Railroad 
    Still, William (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    The Underground Railroad (1872) is a book by African-American abolitionist and Father of the Underground Railroad, William Still. The book is a collection of testimonies from nearly 650 slaves who escaped to freedom via ...
  • The Yellow Wallpaper 
    Perkins Gilman, Charlotte (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) is a short story by American author Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The story is a collection of journal entries written by an unnamed woman whose physician husband has spirited her away to an old ...
  • Utilitarianism 
    Mill, John Stuart (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    Utilitarianism (1863) is a collection of essays by English philosopher and political economist John Stuart Mill. The book provides a comprehensive explanation of what utilitarianism is in order to present it as the best ...
  • The White Witch of Rosehall 
    de Lisser, Herbert G. (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    The White Witch of Rosehall (1929) is a legendary story by Jamaican author H. G. de Lisser. It tells the story of a haunting in Montego Bay, Jamaica where, according to the legend, the spirit of Annie Palmer haunts the ...
  • Jane's Career : A Story of Jamaica 
    de Lisser, Herbert G. (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    Jane: A Story of Jamaica (1913) is a novel by Jamaican author H. G. de Lisser and is the first West Indian novel to feature a Black protagonist. The story follows Jane, a young woman raised in the Jamaican countryside, as ...
  • Victorian Anthology 
    Stevenson, Robert Louis; Marsh, Richard; Marryat, Florence; Rossetti, Christina; Le Fanu, Sheridan; Salt, Henry; Kipling, Rudyard; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel; Stoker, Bram (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    This is a collection of poetry and extracts from various works of Victorian literature.
  • Universal Design for Learning (UDL) for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) 
    Kechego, Jaimie; Stolarchuk, Lorie (University of Windsor, 2022-02-28)
    This content is accompanying material for Module 5 of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) resource.

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