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Herbert Francis Peyser - Joseph Haydn; Servant And Master

Haydn, barring a few hardships in his youth, lived an extraordinarily fortunate life and had abundant reason for the optimism which marked every step of his progress… Haydn was a master by the grace of Heaven and a...

David Wales 2 hours 1 minute

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Louis Biancolli - Tschaikovsky And His Orchestral Music

Included in this little book are analyses and backgrounds of most of Tschaikowsky’s standard concert music. A short sketch of Tschaikowsky’s life precedes the section devoted to the orchestral music. Yet, the personal...

David Wales 27 minutes

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Herbert Francis Peyser - Johann Sebastian Bach

Compared with the unimaginable richness of his inner life as the overpowering volume and splendor of his works reveal it, Bach’s day-to-day existence seems almost pedestrian… The present volume, which advances no...

David Wales 1 hour 19 minutes

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Abraham Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery in the United States

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Charles Godfrey Leland - Abraham Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery in the United States

The book is a biography of Abraham Lincoln with emphasis on how his personality and beliefs impacted the history of the American Emancipation and its causes. The book is very well written, easy to read and includes...

Chances and 8 more 1 hour 37 minutes

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War & Military

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Georges Lacour-Gayet - Bismarck

Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) famously said, «The great questions of the day will not be settled by speeches or the decisions of the majority...but by iron and blood.» Prince Bismarck unified the German states under...

Pamela Nagami 7 hours 20 minutes

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Old New Zealand: Being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times

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Frederick Edward Maning - Old New Zealand: Being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times

Introduction to Old New Zealand Philip Steer Victoria University February 2004 Frederick Edward Maning is best known as an author, but he was also at times a trader and a judge of the Native Land Court. He was...

Gnomesb 5 hours 55 minutes

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Elizabeth Robins Pennell - Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

«Few women have worked so faithfully for the cause of humanity as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [1759-1797], and few have been the objects of such censure...The young were bidden not to read her books, and the more...

Pamela Nagami 7 hours 21 minutes

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Sarah Hopkins Bradford - Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman

A portrait of Harriet Tubman is scheduled to replace that of Andrew Jackson on the front of the U.S. $20 bill in 2020. Sarah H. Bradford, who knew Tubman personally, wrote these scenes from Tubman's extraordinary life...

Sue Anderson 3 hours 1 minute

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War & Military

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Mandell Creighton - Cardinal Wolsey

Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (1473-1530) will always be remembered as the Lord Chancellor who fell from power when he failed to obtain the annulment of King Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon. The eminent British...

Pamela Nagami 7 hours 30 minutes

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (version 2)

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Frederick Douglass - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (version 2)

Published in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself was written in response to critics who questioned the authenticity of the experiences Douglass drew on as a...

Jesse Zuba 4 hours 3 minutes

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Horace Walpole - Horace Walpole's Letters: a selection

Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford, was a cultivated participant in, and observer of, the social and political life of Georgian England. His charming and witty letters are valuable pictures of the age. «A man so...

Barbara Baker 5 hours 44 minutes

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Arthur Octavius Kitson - Life of Captain James Cook

“In publishing a popular edition of my work, Captain James Cook, R.N., F.R.S., it has, of course, been necessary to condense it, but care has been taken to omit nothing of importance, and at the same time a few slight...

Gnomesb 11 hours 43 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

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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