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Biography & Autobiography

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Ralph Keeler - Vagabond Adventures

Ralph Keeler failed as a novelist, but this autobiography reflects a life well-lived with humor and adventure. Keeler was in the same literary circle as satirist Bret Harte, novelist Charles Warren Stoddard, editor...

John Greenman 5 hours 11 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Albert Bigelow Paine - Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume III

This work has been considered the «go-to» bio of Mark Twain for over a hundred years. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April 9, 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain....

John Greenman 23 hours 10 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Frank Gelett Burgess - Romance Of The Commonplace

Thirty four whimsical, tongue-in-cheek, and entertaining essays about not much in particular, published in 1902, by one of the most popular writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The American...

David Wales 4 hours 48 minutes

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Humor

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Kate Sanborn - Wit of Women

It is refreshing to find an unworked field all ready for harvesting. While the wit of men, as a subject for admiration and discussion, is now threadbare, the wit of women has been almost utterly ignored and...

Joseph Tabler and 9 more 6 hours 26 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Albert Bigelow Paine - Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume 1

Until recently, this work has been considered the «go-to» bio of Mark Twain. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April 9, 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. This...

John Greenman 21 hours 30 minutes

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From Mud to Mufti: With Old Bill on all Fronts

War & Military

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Bruce Bairnsfather - From Mud to Mufti: With Old Bill on all Fronts

This second volume of memories from the Great War (WWI) by the celebrated war cartoonist and social observer, begins with Bairnsfather's recuperation from injuries suffered in the Second Battle of Ypres and ends with...

DrPGould 4 hours 54 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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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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Biography & Autobiography

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Albert Bigelow Paine - Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume II

Until recently, this work has been considered the «go-to» bio of Mark Twain. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April 9, 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. This...

John Greenman 21 hours 57 minutes

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War & Military

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Bruce Bairnsfather - Bullets & Billets

A front-line view of life in the trenches of the Western Front in the early part of 1914-1915. Told by Lieutenant (later Captain) Bruce Bairnsfather, cartoonist, whose Alf, Bert, and Old Bill were forerunners to Bill...

DrPGould 4 hours 26 minutes

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Humor

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Pedro Carolino - English as She is Spoke

English as She is Spoke is a 19th century Portuguese-to-English phrasebook that has become a classic of absurdist humor, owing chiefly to the apparent fact that its writer had absolutely no knowledge of English. It...

J A Carter and 1 more 1 hour 3 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Max Beerbohm - And Even Now

This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such notables as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, and Somerset Maugham. Much of Beerbohm's work was humorous,...

Kirsten Wever 7 hours 55 minutes

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Humor

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Mark Twain - Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 2

This collection of the 195 known, publicly-printed speeches of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was compiled by Paul Fatout and published by the University of Iowa Press. The speeches are in the Public Domain,...

John Greenman 20 hours 20 minutes

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