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Frank Gelett Burgess - Romance Of The Commonplace
Thirty four whimsical, tongue-in-cheek, and entertaining essays about not much in particular, published in 1902, by one of the most popular writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The American...
David Wales
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War & Military
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Frank Gelett Burgess - War the Creator
Gelett Burgess, an American writer, penned this gripping account of the profound change that war caused in a young Frenchman he knew. “Because he was my friend, because he was so lovable, because he suffered much, I...
Lee Smalley
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Humor
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Frank Gelett Burgess - Maxims of Methuselah
Being the Advice given by the Patriarch in his Nine Hundred Sixty and Ninth Year to his Great Grandson at Shem's Coming of Age, in Regard to Women. The following is, so far as I know, the only authentic...
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Action & Adventure Fiction
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Frank Gelett Burgess - Find the Woman
Who was Belle Charmion? If you really care to know, as John Fenton did, you must go with him on his quest, hither and yon over New York, into strange houses and through side streets at midnight, a shuttle in the...
Grant Hurlock
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Children's Fiction
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Frank Gelett Burgess - Goop Directory (version 2)
A funny collection of poems about bad children.
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Children's Fiction
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Frank Gelett Burgess - More Goops and How Not to Be Them
Deep in the heart of every parent is the wish, the desire, to have other adults tell us, in an unsolicited way, just how very polite one’s child is! This perhaps was even more the case in 1903, when Gelett Burgess...
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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
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Frank Gelett Burgess - Purple Cow
LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different versions of this famous nonsense rhyme, the weekly poem of April 2nd, 2006. The April Fool's Day spirit was slow to leave us this spring, so as you listen, watch out for...
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Poetry
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Frank Gelett Burgess - Goop Directory
In this DIRECTORY you'll see just what you never ought to be; and so, it should direct your way to Good Behavior, every day. The children of whose faults I tell are known by other names, as well, so see that you...
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Eight Keys to Eden
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Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2)
William Blake
Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916
Short Story Collection Vol. 081
Around the World with the Children
Frank G. Carpenter
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