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Lafcadio Hearn - Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation
Greece-born Lafcadio Hearn (1850 — 1904) spent decades of his life in Japan, even marrying a Japanese woman, thus becoming a Japanese citizen by the name of Koizumi Yakumo (小泉 八雲). He wrote many books on Japan,...
13 hours 58 minutes
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460
John L. Ransom - Andersonville Diary, Escape And List Of The Dead
John L. Ransom was the quartermaster of Company A, 9th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry during the American Civil War and a Union prisoner in the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia. This is his diary...
8 hours 32 minutes
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442
Benedetto Croce - Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
One of the earliest works of this Italian philosopher and literary critic, Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic marks the beginning of Croce's elaboration of his highly influential ideas of...
11 hours 51 minutes
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James Freeman Clarke - Three Essays by James Freeman Clarke
Three diverse essays on souls in animals, a comparison of Buddhism and Christianity, and individualism in religion. Born in Hanover, New Hampshire, James Freeman Clarke attended the Boston Latin School, graduated from...
1 hour 36 minutes
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Walter Ferdinando Grew - Cycle Industry, its origin, history and latest developments
From the velocipede to the motor cycle in twenty chapters. A short history of the British bicycle industry from its origins in a Coventry sewing machine factory in 1868 to its transformation into one of the countries...
3 hours 11 minutes
