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970 books
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450
E. W. Hornung - Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front
In 1915 Oscar Hornung, son of the famous author E W Hornung, was killed at Ypres after less than a year as a soldier in Flanders. He was only 20. Two years later E W Hornung volunteered to help run one of the YMCA...
5 hours 33 minutes
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444
Olive Gilbert - Narrative of Sojourner Truth (version 2)
Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree) was born into slavery in 1797 (or thereabouts) in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York. This narrative, as told by Sojourner Truth to her friend Olive Gilbert, recounts to the...
3 hours 58 minutes
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433
Elizabeth Bisland - In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World by Elizabeth Bisland
In November 1889, the New York World announced that it was sending its reporter Nellie Bly around the world, in a bid to beat Phileas Fogg's fictitious 80-day journey in Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty...
4 hours 9 minutes
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506
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle - Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
This book is a popular science book written in the late 1600s. It is written as a series of conversations between a gallant philosopher and a countess, while walking in her garden and gazing at the stars. The...
3 hours 43 minutes
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411
Mary Rhodes Waring Henagan - Two Diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February - May, 1865
Two diaries from Middle St. John’s, Berkeley, South Carolina, February – May, 1865. Journals kept by Miss Susan R. Jervey and Miss Charlotte St. Julien Ravenel, at Northampton and Poooshee Plantations, and...
2 hours 4 minutes
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436
E. Luscomb Haskell - Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy
«The Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy: The Most Remarkable Case in the History of Crime or Criminal Law» by E. Luscomb Haskell was published in Boston, Massachusetts in 1892 by the Harvard Law School Library, and is part...
2 hours 12 minutes
