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Dr. Benjamin Rush - Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the Human Body and Mind, with an Account of the Means of Preventing, and of the Remedies for Curing Them
Written when the United States extended only to the Mississippi River, by one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, this short work explores the physical, social, and mental effects of distilled liquors;...
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George William Curtis - From the Easy Chair Vol. 1
George William Curtis was a writer and public speaker. He was editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the American Republican party, and served Ulysses S. Grant; although he split from the party in the...
Matthew Squaire
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E. Walter Walters - Confessions of a Book-Lover
«I am of the company of book men who read simply for the love of it,» confesses E. Walter Walters, in this gently written tome. Walters documents his habit of «book fishing--» seeking and finding quality volumes in...
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Lafcadio Hearn - Shadowings
This is another of the popular books that Lafcadio Hearn wrote on various Japanese subjects. The first part «Stories From Strange Books» is a collection of Japanese tales about ghosts and strange occurrences. In the...
Availle
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Richard Middleton - Monologues
This is a collection of 32 highly diverting essays of English author Richard Middleton. Although Middleton is now best remembered for his ghost stories, he was also an accomplished poet and essayist. The musings...
Scotty Smith
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George Wharton James - What the White Race May Learn from the Indian
People learn from other people, and races have forever learned from other races. Herein we are treated to an in-depth understanding of categorized social characteristics of the Native American peoples, primarily those...
Roger Melin
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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 047
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include philosophy and thought — Plato, Aristotle, Leonhard Euler, Henri Amiel, and the French Rights of Man; adventure...
Availle
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A. A. Milne - If I May
A. A. Milne (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. 'If I May' is a collection of short essays on desultory...
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William Lyon Phelps - Essays on Modern Novelists
A collection of essays on 19th century novelists, both famous ones and those largely forgotten now. Among the writers presented most wrote in English, but three foreign authors are also discussed. Phelps taught a...
Anna Simon
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Arthur Bingham Walkley - Pastiche and Prejudice
Arthur Bingham Walkley was an exceedingly popular critic, working as a drama critic at The Times alone for no less than 26 years, and writing for several other newspapers and privately besides that. This book of...
Ulrike Denis
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Coningsby Dawson - It Might Have Happened to You
This is a frank eyewitness description of the suffering, starvation in particular, that was widely experienced in Central and Eastern Europe in the aftermath of «The Great War». “It is not stating matters too strongly...
Lee Smalley
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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 046
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include meteor showers, smallpox inoculation, telegraphy, fear of death, church bell change-ringing, painting as a...
Garth Burton
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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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