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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Life Of Charlotte Brontë Volume 2

Charlotte Bronte was a British author, the eldest of the three famous Bronte sisters who have become standards of English literature. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, one of the greatest classics of all...

Julie VW and 4 more 9 hours 16 minutes

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Lewis and Clark: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

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William R. Lighton - Lewis and Clark: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

In the years 1804, 1805, and 1806, two men commanded an expedition which explored the wilderness that stretched from the mouth of the Missouri River to where the Columbia enters the Pacific, and dedicated to...

Roger Melin 3 hours 14 minutes

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George Armstrong Custer - My Life on the Plains

George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876), one of the most mythologized figures in American history, was an United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian...

texttalker 17 hours 46 minutes

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John Muir - Story of My Boyhood and Youth

«The only fire for the whole house was the kitchen stove, with a fire box about eighteen inches long and eight inches wide and deep,- scant space for three or four small sticks, around which in hard zero weather all...

Sue Anderson 5 hours 25 minutes

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Jacob Abbott - Charles I

There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history,...

reservedforgreatness and 7 more 5 hours 16 minutes

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Flavius Philostratus - Life of Apollonius of Tyana

Apollonius of Tyana (ca. 40-120 AD) was a Greek Pythagorean philosopher and teacher. He hailed from the town of Tyana in the Roman province of Cappadocia in Asia Minor. His date of birth is a matter of conjecture as...

Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit and 5 more 18 hours 19 minutes

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Henry James - Small Boy and Others

A Small Boy and Others is a book of autobiography by Henry James published in 1913. The book covers James's earliest years and discusses his intellectually active family, his intermittent schooling, and his first...

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James Boswell - Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II

Boswell's famous work on the life of his admired friend Johnson, the formidable poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer, is a milestone in the development of biographical...

Justin Brett and 10 more 14 hours 6 minutes The Life of Samuel Johnson

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John Stuart Mill - Autobiography

John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), British philosopher, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. He was an exponent of...

Gary Gilberd and 2 more 9 hours 21 minutes

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Jacob Abbott - Mary Queen of Scots

There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history,...

Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit and 7 more 5 hours 6 minutes

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John Muir - My First Summer in the Sierra

The journal of nature-lover John Muir who spent the summer of 1869 walking California’s Sierra Nevada range. From French Bar to Mono Lake and the Yosemite Valley, Muir was awestruck by everything he saw. The antics...

Adrian Praetzellis 7 hours 13 minutes

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Der Ling Yu - Two Years in the Forbidden City

THE author of the following narrative has peculiar qualifications for her task. She is a daughter of Lord Yu Keng, a member of the Manchu White Banner Corps, and one of the most advanced and progressive Chinese...

Jc Guan 9 hours 35 minutes

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