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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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Lives of the Queens of England, Volume 7

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Agnes Strickland - Lives of the Queens of England, Volume 7

The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by her sister Elisabeth. These volumes give biographies of the queens of England...

Ann Boulais 19 hours 13 minutes Lives of the Queens of England

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Grant Allen - Biographies of Working Men

Grant Allen was an anthropologist, scientific writer, novelist and poet, though the biographer and writer Frank Harris has said of him that «He could be described with more 'ists' than anyone else I ever saw. He was...

NoelBadrian 5 hours 51 minutes

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John Aubrey - Brief Lives Volume I

A collection of sparkling gossipy biographical pieces of Aubrey's contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glimpses into the unofficial side of these towering figures has won it an undying...

Nicole Lee 10 hours 58 minutes

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History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier, Part 2

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Charles E. Flandrau - History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier, Part 2

A series of stories written by Judge Charles E. Flandrau «at different times during his long residence in the Northwest, which embrace historical events, personal adventures, and amusing incidents.» This book of tales...

deongines and 8 more 4 hours 29 minutes

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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Vol.2

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Aimé Bonpland - Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Vol.2

In Volume 2 of “The Personal Narrative”, Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland continue their travels, beginning at Lake Valencia in the llanos of Venezuela and then travelling the mighty South...

Gail Timmerman Vaughan 22 hours

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Jacob A. Riis - Making of an American

Jacob Riis was an esteemed reporter and documentary photographer in New York City. In his autobiography he movingly recounts his early life and unrelenting attempts at courtship in Denmark followed by his later...

Lee Smalley and 1 more 9 hours 59 minutes

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War & Military

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William Holden Hutton - Philip Augustus

Philip Augustus (Philip II of France 1165-1223), grandfather of Saint Louis, was one of France's greatest kings. While England's Henry II was locked in combat with his rebellious offspring, Philip and his loyal son,...

Pamela Nagami 7 hours 40 minutes

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Percy Bysshe Shelley - History of a Six Weeks' Tour

Full titled History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni , this small journal...

BettyB and 2 more 2 hours 19 minutes

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Mark Twain - Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews

This collection of the 258 known, publicly-printed interviews of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was compiled by Gary Scharnhorst and published by the University of Alabama Press. The interviews are in the...

John Greenman 37 hours 23 minutes

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Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - Henry D. Thoreau

A biography of the famous and popular poet-naturalist, author, philosopher, historian, written by a family friend who spent time with Thoreau almost daily during the last seven years of his life and who knew and...

Lynne T and 10 more 6 hours 55 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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