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Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life

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Lafcadio Hearn - Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life

In an introductory paragraph, Lafcadio Hearn declares his intention: «The papers composing this volume treat of the inner rather than of the outer life of Japan, for which reason they have been grouped under the title...

Expatriate 7 hours 57 minutes

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James Elroy Flecker - Collected Prose

Best remembered for his poetry, James Elroy Flecker was also a playwright, novelist and prose writer. This collection of his idiosyncratic prose writings includes The Last Generation (a short science fiction story),...

Phil Benson and 5 more 7 hours 19 minutes

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Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion

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George Santayana - Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion

Even before the Great War turned the world upside down, Western civilization was being revolutionized at all levels: intellectually, philosophically, artistically. Noted positivist philosopher George Santayana...

Expatriate 6 hours 43 minutes

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Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg Address 150th Anniversary

On Thursday, November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln gave a brief address at the dedication of the Soldier's National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. This speech is now considered one of the greatest in American...

Ann Boulais and 14 more 35 minutes

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Jack London - Revolution, and other Essays

A collection of 13 essays written between 1900 and 1908, published in 1910. The lead essay, «Revolution», outlines how and why London renounced capitalism as a failed social system and declared himself an active...

Michele Fry and 9 more 6 hours 7 minutes

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 031

Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the Faust Legend, Stephen Crane, Sundials and the Statue of Liberty. (Summary by Sue Anderson)

Craig Campbell and 11 more 7 hours 32 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law In All Its Phases

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Southern Horrors: Lynch Law In All Its Phases

Thoroughly appalled and sickened by the rising numbers of white-on-black murders in the South since the beginning of Reconstruction, and by the unwillingness of local, state and federal governments to prosecute...

James K. White 1 hour 7 minutes

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Visits To The Dead In The Catacombs Of Rome

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George Washington Greene - Visits To The Dead In The Catacombs Of Rome

This essay of a cultured observer, for many years United States consul in Rome, appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 10, issue 59, April, 1855, pp 577 — 600. (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 1 hour 53 minutes

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Mark Twain - Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 1

Spanning the time between 1872 and the year before he died, this collection of after-dinner speeches, random thoughts to «the press», etc. clearly documents, once again, the truly eclectic mind of Samuel Clemens. It...

John Greenman 12 hours 6 minutes

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Lafcadio Hearn - Exotics and Retrospectives

Lafcadio Hearn, born 1850 in Greece, went to Japan when he was 40 years old and became a Japanese citizen only 6 years later. His writings about Japan from the beginning of the Meiji era, when the country was just...

William Gavula and 8 more 5 hours 32 minutes

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 030

Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include botany, dreams, farming, history, literature, nature, and religion. (summary by Sue Anderson)

Rachel Gatwood and 13 more 5 hours 41 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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William Cobbett - Rural Rides

William Cobbett: 1763-1835 English farmer, journalist and politician. His book Rural Rides collects together the articles published in his Political Register between 1822 and 1826, reflecting conditions of farmers and...

Nicole Lee 23 hours 53 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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