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Olive Schreiner - Woman and War

Olive Schreiner was a South African writer born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She is credited with being the first Internationally famous South African Novelist. She was an extraordinary person...

NoelBadrian 51 minutes

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Alexander Pope - Essay on Criticism (version 2)

The title, An Essay on Criticism hardly indicates all that is included in the poem. It would have been impossible to give a full and exact idea of the art of poetical criticism without entering into the...

cwanki 42 minutes

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Negro Problem

This is a collection of essays, edited by Booker T. Washington, representative of what historians have characterized as «racial uplift ideology.» These and other similar narratives of the time were a reaction to the...

James K. White 3 hours 57 minutes

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 038

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include bedside books, South African cookery, Bryce canyon, Wilhelm Stekel's psychology, the Theologia Germanica,...

Newgatenovelist and 8 more 4 hours 21 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Samuel Johnson - Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson

This is a volume of selected essays by «the great master of reason» Samuel Johnson. The most famous exerpts from The Rambler, The Adventurer and The Idler are included, covering a vast range of topics. — Summary by...

Barbara Baker and 10 more 13 hours 21 minutes

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Emma Goldman - Anarchism and Other Essays (Version 2)

Emma Goldman, the most famous anarchist in American history, shows the whole range of her iconoclastic thought in this collection of essays. Drawing from a wealth of illustrative material, including the examples of...

Expatriate 7 hours 31 minutes

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Dante Alighieri - Vulgari Eloquentia

De vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the vernacular) is a short essay written by Dante Alighieri in Latin. The work remains incomplete; only one and a half books are extant. It is believed to have been composed...

Anna Simon and 1 more 1 hour 41 minutes

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 037

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, blow-pipe weapons, Oriental china; impressions of America by Enrico Caruso,...

Garth Burton and 12 more 7 hours 7 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Alice Meynell - Colour of Life

This is a collection of essays by English poet and author Alice Meynell. The essays in this volume share a dream-like quality, as they explore in few words an idea or a phenomenon observed by the author. — Summary by...

V Verma and 5 more 2 hours 11 minutes

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Selected Interviews with Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 2

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Robert G. Ingersoll - Selected Interviews with Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 2

A controversial lecturer and famous orator of the mid 1800's, Ingersoll railed against the absurdities of the Bible and cruelties of orthodox Christianity, tirelessly supported the arts, education, science, women’s...

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca - Moral Letters, Vol. I

«Among the personalities of the early Roman Empire there are few who offer to the readers of to-day such dramatic interest as does Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the author of the Epistles which are translated in this...

Felipe Vogel 9 hours 39 minutes

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 036

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the discovery of X-rays, earthquakes, Hegel, Sir William Osler, Charles William Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Charles...

Glenn O'Brien and 11 more 5 hours 58 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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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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