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William Still - Underground Railroad, Part 4

«The work is intensely interesting. Many of the narratives thrill the reader through and through. Some of them awaken an indignation, a horror, or a sense of humiliation and shame that makes the blood curdle or the...

Michele Fry and 7 more 8 hours 33 minutes The Underground Railroad by William Still

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Art, Design & Architecture

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Percy M. Turner - Van Dyck

A biography and critique of Van Dyck in The Masterpieces in Colour series. The Plates of the paintings are fully described and the artistic periods in his life's work are given as well as his place in history....

Susan Morin 1 hour 19 minutes

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Athanasius of Alexandria - Life of Anthony

Anthony (251-356CE) lived in Egypt, and became one of the fathers of Christian desert monasticism. When he was about 18 years old, and having inherited a large fortune, he heard a sermon about Jesus challenging the...

Matthew James Gray 2 hours 35 minutes

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Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers

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Charles Bradlaugh - Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers

This book presents a brief bio and a summary of important ideas & events in the lives of 23 great philosophers from ancient times through the 19th century. The book focuses on freethinkers, who are known to say things...

Ted Delorme 13 hours 34 minutes

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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

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Mary Seacole - Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

I should have thought that no preface would have been required to introduce Mrs. Seacole to the British public, or to recommend a book which must, from the circumstances in which the subject of it was placed, be...

Cori Samuel 5 hours 58 minutes

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Charles F. Horne - Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 1

Great Men and Famous Women is an 8-volume work by various authors containing “A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History.” The set is edited by...

Greg Giordano and 15 more 11 hours 46 minutes

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Jim Kjelgaard - Story of Geronimo

Geronimo (1829 – 1909) was a prominent leader of the Bedonkohe Apache who fought against Mexico and the United States for their expansion into Apache tribal lands for several decades during the Apache Wars. «Geronimo»...

Jules Hawryluk and 3 more 3 hours 28 minutes

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Samuel G Goodrich - Life of Benjamin Franklin

This little book was intended for the education of school children and includes tales, sketches and anecdotes of his life written for the children of the mid 1800's and written in the English languge of that period....

maryagneskatherine and 10 more 3 hours 44 minutes

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Peter Hempson Ditchfield - Books Fatal to Their Authors

This is a collection of stories of authors who have lost their fortunes and sometimes their lives after writing a book. The liberty of a person's conscience was unknown in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Why...

Anna Simon and 6 more 5 hours 44 minutes

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William Still - Underground Railroad, Part 3

«Never before has the working of the Underground Railroad been so thoroughly explained. Here we have in complete detail the various methods adopted for circumventing the enemies of freedom, and told, as it is, with...

Lynne T and 9 more 8 hours 33 minutes The Underground Railroad by William Still

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Martyrs of Science, or, the Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler

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David Brewster - Martyrs of Science, or, the Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler

“The martyrs of Science” gives a brief biography of Galileo, Brahe and Kepler. These three men played a pivotal role in the scientific revolution during the early modern period. This book throws light upon their...

bala 5 hours 14 minutes

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Autobiography of Goethe Volume 1

This Autobiography of Goethe has a lengthy introduction and short biography of Goethe's life by Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) and was translated by John Oxenford (1812-1877) in 1848, which was a year of revolutions in...

Barbara Baker and 4 more 19 hours 12 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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