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Robert Schumann, Tone Poet Prophet And Critic

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Herbert Francis Peyser - Robert Schumann, Tone Poet Prophet And Critic

[This is] the sketchiest outline of Robert Schumann’s short life but amazingly rich achievement. Together with Haydn and Schubert he was, perhaps, the most completely lovable of the great masters. It is hard,...

David Wales 1 hour 31 minutes

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Herbert Francis Peyser - Richard Strauss

There was not much truly spectacular about the course of [Strauss's] life, which was most happily free from the material troubles which bedeviled the existence of so many great masters… If “Salome” and “Elektra”, “Ein...

David Wales 1 hour 31 minutes

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Jesse Pomeroy - Autobiography of Jesse H. Pomeroy

Jesse Harding Pomeroy was only 12 years old when he was arrested for the assault of 7 boys near his home in the South Boston area of Massachusetts. He was sent to reform school for a year and released. Shortly after...

Roger Melin 3 hours 35 minutes

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Herbert Francis Peyser - George Frideric Handel

Handel’s long career resembles a gigantic tapestry, so bewilderingly crowded with detail, so filled with turmoil and vicissitude, with vast achievements, extremes of good and ill fortune, and unending comings and...

David Wales 1 hour 49 minutes

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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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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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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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