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Max Baginski - Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906
«Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as „A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature“. Founded in early 1906 and initially edited by Emma Goldman, an activist in the...
Larry Wilson
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William Cowper Brann - Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast, Volume 1
William Cowper Brann earned the nickname “The Iconoclast” by fearlessly attacking established beliefs and institutions which he thought to be pompous and self-serving. He settled in the wild and wooly West Texas town...
William Allan Jones
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Biography & Autobiography
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William Dean Howells - Twain and Howells On Each Other
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and William Dean Howells were friends for 44 years. Their personal and professional relationship is considered by many to be one of the most important in American literature. Howells...
John Greenman
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Bertrand Russell - Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
This book records Bertrand Russell's impressions of the new regime after a 1920 visit to Russia following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, including his meetings with Lenin, Trostky, and Gorky. It includes a chapter...
Landon D. C. Elkind
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G. K. Chesterton - Uses of Diversity
A collection of 35 essays by G.K. Chesterton originally published in his weekly columns in «The Illustrated London News» and the «New Witness». The subjects vary greatly from lamp posts to Jane Austen's Emma, from «On...
thestorygirl
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Humorous Fiction
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Charles S. Brooks - Hints to Pilgrims
In this collection of 17 short essays, Charles S. Brooks (1878-1934), with the usual panache and wit, which he also displays in his comedies, describes funny incidents that can happen to people on holidays or in...
Bob Dunlop
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G. K. Chesterton - Fancies Versus Fads
A Collection of 31 essays from G.K. Chesterton. “I have strung these things together on a slight enough thread; but as the things themselves are slight, it is possible that the thread (and the metaphor) may...
Larry Wilson
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Marcus Tullius Cicero - Treatises On Friendship And Old Age
Friendship. Old Age. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC — 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer, and philosopher. He is considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists. One commentator has written, “The...
David Wales
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Frank Gelett Burgess - Romance Of The Commonplace
Thirty four whimsical, tongue-in-cheek, and entertaining essays about not much in particular, published in 1902, by one of the most popular writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The American...
David Wales
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Christopher Morley - Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
Chrisopher Morley was an American literary luminary whose prolific writings included novels, essays, poetry, plays and great journalistic output. This collection of essays is wide ranging in topics, many with his...
Larry Wilson
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H. G. Wells - Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences
Select Conversations with an Uncle, published in 1895, was H.G. Wells's first literary publication in book form. It consists of reports of twelve conversations between a fictional witty uncle who has returned to...
Graham Scott
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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 059
Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 59 contains an eclectic mix of readings, ranging from a description of a Coney Island elephant colossus to meditations...
Gerwin Kramer
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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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