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Arthur Ransome - Russia in 1919

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: On August 27, 1914, in London, I made this note in a memorandum book: «Met Arthur Ransome at_____'s; discussed a book on the Russian's relation to the war in the light of psychological...

Expatriate 4 hours 15 minutes

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Samuel Pepys - Diary of Samuel Pepys 1662

Samuel Pepys was the first Secretary to the Admiralty during the reign of Charles II, instrumental in developing the Royal Navy and witness to some of the most significant events of the Restoration period, including...

Nicole Lee 6 hours 42 minutes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Through the Magic Door

I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of...

Gail Nelson and 8 more 4 hours 49 minutes

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John Hay - Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 2)

Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who were his personal secretaries during the American Civil War. Volume 2...

Denise Nordell and 12 more 13 hours 6 minutes Abraham Lincoln: A History in 10 Volumes

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Herman Charles Merivale - My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum

Fully titled My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum, by a Sane Patient, this memoir describes its author's, Herman Merivale's, experience in one of England's countryside asylums during the 1860's. The main subject — in...

Carol Cotter and 2 more 3 hours 5 minutes

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Philosophy

839

Leo Tolstoy - My Confession

«My Confession» is a brief autobiographical story of Leo Tolstoy's struggle with a mid-life existential crisis of melancholia. It describes his search for answers to the profound questions «What will come of my life?»...

Expatriate 2 hours 41 minutes

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Jesse James, Jr. - Jesse James, My Father

A biography of Jesse James as told by his son, Jesse James, Jr. We are treated to inside tales of Jesse's childhood and home life; what drove him to become a Confederate guerrilla during the Civil War; his life after...

Barry Eads 4 hours 40 minutes

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Political Science

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Marie Sukloff - Life-Story of a Russian Exile

Hero or assassin? Victim or criminal? Marie Sukloff fits no easy category. A young peasant woman who became a political radical and activist, Sukloff carried out an assassination plot against a Russian governor known...

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Biography & Autobiography

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Ibn Battuta - Travels of Ibn Batuta

Ibn Battuta (1304 – ca. 1369), was a Moroccan explorer. Over a period of thirty years, Ibn Battuta visited most of the known Islamic world as well as many non-Muslim lands. His journeys included trips to North Africa,...

Ian Prise and 6 more 7 hours 12 minutes

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Isaac Mason - Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave

Isaac Mason was born into slavery. As a young man, he escaped to freedom and made a life for himself. An intelligent man, he gave lectures on his experiences and was later encouraged to publish them in book form. —...

Lynne T 2 hours 9 minutes

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Harold Fielding Hall - Soul of a People

In The Soul of a People, Englishman H. Fielding explores the beliefs of the Burmese people. He offers an understandable, and yet thorough, explanation of Buddhism, and illustrates the many ways the people of Burma...

Carol Fullerton-Samsel and 7 more 8 hours 54 minutes

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Elizabeth Gertrude Stern - My Mother and I

Elizabeth Stern was two and a half years old, when her family emigrated from Poland to Pittsburgh. My Mother and I is the story of Stern's Americanization and how it ultimately alienated her from her parents....

Sue Anderson 3 hours 36 minutes

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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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