Contents: The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin; The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass; Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs; Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington; The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois; The Republic by Plato; Utopia by Thomas More; The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella; The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon; Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy