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Jane Austen and her Country-House Comedy

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William Henry Helm - Jane Austen and her Country-House Comedy

Written for the centenary of Jane Austen's death, W. H. Helm reflects poetically on the timelessness of her work: the must of age has not settled on her books. The lavender may lie between their pages, but it is...

deongines and 3 more 4 hours 50 minutes

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Alfred George Gardiner - Prophets, Priests, And Kings

These biographical essays of (mostly) British subjects were written in 1907-1908 for The Daily News newspaper and reflect their subjects as seen before the great cataclysm of World War I. Gardiner was a British...

David Wales 10 hours 52 minutes

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Lives of the Queens of England, Volume 8

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Agnes Strickland - Lives of the Queens of England, Volume 8

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 17 hours 43 minutes Lives of the Queens of England

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Phineas Pett - Autobiography of Phineas Pett

Phineas Pett was a Master Shipbuilder from one of England's greatest shipbuilding families of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and kept a journal of his experiences and thoughts at this important and turbulent...

Lynne T 9 hours 16 minutes

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War & Military

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Charles William Chadwick Oman - Warwick the Kingmaker

Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428-1471), wealthy and powerful peer of England, was one of the leaders of the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487). He joined Richard, Duke of York in opposing the ineffectual and...

Pamela Nagami 7 hours 8 minutes

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Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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William Godwin - Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

William Godwin writes a tell-all about his ex-wife one year after her death. Mary Wollstonecraft (mother of Mary Shelley) was an early proponent of women's rights and lived a lifestyle that was frowned upon during her...

Lady McIntyre and 3 more 3 hours

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Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers

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Samuel Smiles - Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers

Short Biographies of some of the most influential engineers who developed the modern manufacturing methods behind the Industrial Revolution. Engineers and designers tend to be fairly anonymous figures in history...

Clive Catterall 11 hours 22 minutes

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Ida Ashworth Taylor - Lady Jane Grey and Her Times

Lady Jane Grey was an English noblewoman, great-granddaughter of Henry VII. As her cousin, Edward VI, lay on his death-bed, he nominated her as his successor to the English crown ahead of his half-sisters Mary and...

Beth Thomas and 5 more 8 hours 14 minutes

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Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol 1

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Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol 1

Lord Cochrane was a Napoleonic-era sea captain, whose adventures were the source material for many popular series of naval fiction. He started to write a biography but passed away after completing only two volumes....

Timothy Ferguson 9 hours 7 minutes

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John Hay - Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 6)

Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who were his personal secretaries during the American Civil War. Volume 6...

Jim Locke and 4 more 13 hours 47 minutes Abraham Lincoln: A History in 10 Volumes

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English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture

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Sir Francis Galton - English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture

The results of a survey undertaken by Galton to learn more about individual differences and similarities between the «pre-eminent» men of his time. Brief biographical information, biometric data and extensive...

Leon Harvey 4 hours 39 minutes

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Agnes Mary Frances Robinson - Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë (1818-1848) is best known for her only novel, «Wuthering Heights.» She was born in Yorkshire, northern England, where her father was an Anglican curate. When Brontë was three years old her mother died of...

Pamela Nagami 7 hours 40 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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