Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Contributor(s): Douglass, Frederick (Author), Gomes, Peter J (Introduction by), Stephens, Gregory (Afterword by)

ISBN: 9780451529947

Publisher: Signet Book

$5.95

Pub Date: June 7, 2005

Dewey: B

LCCN: 2005006971

Lexile Code: 0550

Features: Bibliography, Price on Product

Target Age Group: 18 to UP

Physical Info: 0.50" H x 6.60" L x 4.10" W ( 0.20 lbs) 160 pages

BISAC Categories:

Series: Signet Classics

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000076092 ( Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass)

Reading level: 7.90

Interest level: UG

Point value: 7.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: In his wrenching, classic autobiography--one of the most important documents in American history--Douglass describes himself as a man who became a slave and, later, a slave who became a man. Reissue.

Review Quotes: "This narrative contains many affecting incidents, many passages of great eloquence and power...Who can read [it], and be insensible to its pathos and sublimity?"--William Lloyd Garrison

"He experienced...the tyranny and circumscription of an ambitious human being who was classified as real estate."--W.E.B. DuBois

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