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St. George William Joseph Stock - Guide to Stoicism

This book is a primer on the philosophy of stoicism, resurrected from its origins in Greek and Roman philosophy. The original philosophy was based on a reasoning process which it was assumed would lead to a virtuous...

Bill Boerst 1 hour 58 minutes

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Anonymous - How to Write a Novel

I address myself to the man or woman of talent—those people who have writing ability, but who need instruction in the manipulation of characters, the formation of plots, and a host of other points with which I shall...

Brett W. Downey 2 hours 40 minutes

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Mae Marsh - Screen Acting

Silent film star, Mae Marsh, recounts her life as an actress in this publication, what she deems as being the answer to thousands of letters written to her over the years inquiring about what it takes to be a screen...

Amanda Friday 1 hour 49 minutes

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From North Carolina to Southern California Without a Ticket and How I Did It

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John Peele - From North Carolina to Southern California Without a Ticket and How I Did It

"… I have decided to write an account of a few of the many adventures and dangers that befell me while making my way, practically without a penny, from Tarboro, North Carolina, to Tucson, Arizona; and thence to...

Lee Smalley 2 hours 29 minutes

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Willis J. Abbot - Aircraft and Submarines

«Aircraft and Submarines» is a history of the development of these forms of transportation and their ultimate use in warfare. Also a brief history of submarine use in commercial applications. A thoroughly enjoyable...

William Tomcho 11 hours 34 minutes

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Dante Alighieri - Monarchia

The De Monarchia is one of the main works by Dante Alighieri. It is a treatise on secular and religious power, and more specifically on the relationship between secular authority (represented by the Holy Roman...

Leni and 5 more 1 hour 45 minutes

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Henry David Thoreau - Maine Woods

On August 31, 1846, twenty-nine-year-old Henry David Thoreau left his cabin on Walden Pond to undertake a railroad and steamboat journey to Bangor, Maine, from where he would venture with his Penobscot guide Joe Polis...

Expatriate 9 hours 25 minutes

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Channing Arnold - American Egypt

Arnold and Frost were English archaeologists who traveled to the Yucatan Peninsula and wrote «the first book ever written by Englishmen on Yucatan—that Egypt of the New World, where, it is now generally admitted,...

Lynne T and 5 more 19 hours 46 minutes

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James Allen - Eight Pillars of Prosperity

Andrea Fiore 3 hours 56 minutes

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James Allen - All These Things Added

In seeking for pleasures here and rewards hereafter men have destroyed (in their hearts) the Temple of Righteousness, and have wandered from the Kingdom of Heaven. By ceasing to seek for earthly pleasures and heavenly...

Andrea Fiore 3 hours 1 minute

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James Allen - Light on Life’s Difficulties

When a man enters a dark room he is not sure of his movements, he cannot see objects around him, or properly locate them, and is liable to hurt himself by coming into sudden contact with them. But let a light be...

Andrea Fiore 2 hours 32 minutes

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Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance

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Edith Birkhead - Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance

A seminal essay on the development of horror as a genre, highly influential on later writers. — Summary by Timothy Ferguson

Timothy Ferguson 7 hours 5 minutes

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