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Sarah Knowles Bolton - Some Articles About Mark Twain

«Samuel Langhorne Clemens», «Mark Twain At Home», «Youth of Mark Twain» & «Mark Twain Gossip» Published in the June 16, 1888 edition of «Literature — An Illustrated Weekly Magazine» (Vol. 1, No. 17) these four,...

John Greenman 41 minutes

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Alice Meynell - London Impressions

Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing...

Lynn Lee and 5 more 1 hour 23 minutes

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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

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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;...

TriciaG 1 hour 4 minutes

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I.W.W. - Its History, Structure, and Method

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Vincent St. John - I.W.W. - Its History, Structure, and Method

“We must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, ‘Abolition of the wage system’” The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), members of which are commonly termed «Wobblies,» is an international labor...

P. J. Taylor 1 hour 22 minutes

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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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David Starr Jordan - Life's Enthusiasms

The words in this essay on positive thought sing like those in Whitman's «Leaves of Grass.» The author praises joyous living and recommends certain routes to its attainment. He explores schooling (public secondary and...

Bill Boerst 38 minutes

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Theodore Roosevelt; An Address Delivered Before The Congress Of The United States

Biography & Autobiography

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Henry Cabot Lodge - Theodore Roosevelt; An Address Delivered Before The Congress Of The United States

A biographical encomium delivered on the occasion of Roosevelt's death. Theodore «T.R.» Roosevelt, Jr. (1858 – 1919) was an American author, naturalist, explorer, historian, and politician who served as the 26th...

David Wales 1 hour 22 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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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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Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (Version 2)

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Mark Twain - Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (Version 2)

This is Mark Twain's vicious and amusing review of Fenimore Cooper's literary art. It is still read widely in academic circles. Twain's essay, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses (often spelled «Offences») (1895),...

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Poetry

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Alexander Pope - Essay on Criticism

An Essay on Criticism was the first major poem written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688-1744). However, despite the title, the poem is not as much an original analysis as it is a compilation of Pope's...

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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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