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Ida M. Tarbell - Business of Being a Woman

How were women's roles changing in the 1900's? Ida Tarbell explores this in a well written, witty and insightful series of essays. «The object of this little volume is to call attention to a certain distrust, which...

MaryAnn and 7 more 3 hours 46 minutes

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Charles C. Burleigh - Thoughts on the Death Penalty

This 1845 publication, written by a prominent reformer of the day, argues against capital punishment from several perspectives, including historical, philosophical and biblical arguments. It is broken into 3 chapters:...

Larry Wilson and 5 more 6 hours 22 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

475

Emma Goldman - Anarchism and Other Essays (Version 2)

Emma Goldman, the most famous anarchist in American history, shows the whole range of her iconoclastic thought in this collection of essays. Drawing from a wealth of illustrative material, including the examples of...

Expatriate 7 hours 31 minutes

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House & Home

461

William Sandys - Christmastide

Christmastide: Its History, Festivities and Carols, With Their Music is a collection of essays detailing the early traditions of Christmas in England. This recording includes the prose portions of the book only (The...

Greg Giordano and 1 more 7 hours 9 minutes

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Enquiry Into The Causes Of The Late Increase Of Robbers

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Henry Fielding - Enquiry Into The Causes Of The Late Increase Of Robbers

Early eighteenth century England saw the criminal element bargaining with magistrates and lawyers to be released or receive lenient sentences. Neither party could be trusted and the situation grew worse. Enter famed...

Lynne T and 5 more 4 hours 10 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

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Anonymous - Young Girl's Diary

The diary of an upper middle class Austrian girl, this book describes her life between the ages of eleven and fourteen. It's a coming of age story full of angst, boys, and questions. (Summary by KHand)

KHand 7 hours 13 minutes

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Mary Antin - They Who Knock at Our Gates

In 1914, over one million immigrants arrived in the United States, following in the footsteps of approximately ten million others who had arrived in the preceding decade. Faced with so many newcomers, many of them...

Maria Kasper 2 hours 24 minutes

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War & Military

469

Abraham Lincoln - Emancipation Proclamation

After having written and released an initial draft of this proclamation in September of 1862, minor changes were made and Lincoln signed it on January 1st, 1863. It declared free the slaves in 10 states not then under...

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Thomas Paine - Rights Of Man

A book in 2 Parts, published in 1791 and 1792. Part First denounces Edmund Burke’s defense of monarchy and his attacks against the French Revolution, and in plain layman’s language traces the birth and fallacy of...

Michele Fry and 1 more 9 hours 36 minutes

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Mason Long - Save the Girls

Save the Girls is an 1880 American anti-white-slavery book by reformed gambler Mason Long. In it, the author crusades against the social evil of prostitution by presenting a series of pathetic portraits of young...

Grant Hurlock 4 hours 43 minutes

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On an Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara

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Samuel Gamble Bayne - On an Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara

This book gives a brief glimpse into the social history of Ireland in the early part of the 20th Century. During his 1902 tour through the north, west and south of Ireland the author provides entertaining insights...

Frank Lennon 3 hours 12 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

470

Hamilton Wright Mabie - Essays on Work and Culture

The author investigates the world of work against a backdrop of culture. Each of the 25 essays focuses on one aspect of the topic. For example, the first essay, «Tool or Man?» looks at two views of man. One is that of...

Greg Giordano and 3 more 3 hours 55 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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