Creole Folktales by Patrick Chamoiseau recounts stories the author heard as a child growing up in Martinique. His novel Texaco, which won the prestigious Prix Concourt, recounts the social history of a shanty town in Martinique.Le Quatrième Siècle and Malemort by Martinican native Édouard Glissant examine contemporary West Indian life against the backdrop of slavery and colonial rule.Sugar and Slavery, Family and Race, is a collection of letters and a diary by Pierre Dessalles, a planter in Martinique between 1808 and 1856.Aimé Césaire's Modernism and Négritude is a must-have collection of poems by the long-term mayor of Fort-de-France.The Day the World Ended is an account of the Mt Pelée eruption in 1902 by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts.