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Horatio Alger, Jr. - Helping Himself; or Grant Thornton's Ambition (version 2)
“wish we were not so terribly poor, Grant," said Mrs. Thornton, in a discouraged tone. «Is there anything new that makes you say so, mother?” Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was a prolific...
5 hours 11 minutes
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Hamilton Wright Mabie - Heroes Every Child Should Know
The endeavour has been made in this volume to bring together the heroic men of different races, periods and types; and in the selection of material the most attractive, intelligent and authoritative literature has...
11 hours 1 minute
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William Patten - Junior Classics Volume 7: Stories of Courage and Heroism
The stories in this volume are true stories, and have been arranged in chronological order, an arrangement that will aid the reader to remember the times to which the stories relate. Almost any encyclopedia can...
14 hours 43 minutes
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Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade - Our Little Siamese Cousin
A book written for children to see what life is like for their 'cousins' in Siam. This is part of the «Our Little Cousin» series and like the others, brings to life the day to day occurrences and celebrations of...
1 hour 32 minutes
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Laura E. Howe Richards - Florence Nightingale the Angel of the Crimea
One evening, some time after the great Crimean War of 1854-55, a company of military and naval officers met at dinner in London. They were talking over the war, as soldiers and sailors love to do, and somebody said:...
3 hours 23 minutes
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Josephine Pollard - Life of George Washington in Words of One Syllable
The Life story of a public man cannot help being to some extent the same thing as a history of the times in which he lived, and to the case of none does this remark apply with more force than to that of the «Father of...
3 hours 39 minutes
