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Mary Elizabeth Brown - Dedications

Dedications is an anthology of the forms used from the earliest days of book-making to the present time. My purpose in the following anthology of dedications has been to make a representative, rather than an...

Larry Wilson and 11 more 13 hours 17 minutes

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Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book III

Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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John Locke - Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book III

This is the third book of John Locke's Essay on Human Understanding. Book I was Neither Principles Nor Ideas Are Innate. Book II was Of Ideas and Book III is Of Words. Locke is writing about the ideas we have in our...

Craig Campbell and 7 more 6 hours 20 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Albert Bigelow Paine - Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume III

This work has been considered the «go-to» bio of Mark Twain for over a hundred years. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April 9, 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain....

John Greenman 23 hours 10 minutes

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Writing & Linguistics

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William Blades - Enemies of Books

The author, an avid book collector, calls for the better protection of books against the «enemies» which lead to their physical destruction. In a series of brief chapters, he details the losses caused by raging fire,...

Maria Kasper 2 hours 32 minutes

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Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, Volume I

Writing & Linguistics

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George Lillie Craik - Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, Volume I

The History of English Literature and Language may be recommended to the student as a guide always sure, and as satisfactory as its limits will admit, to the gathered harvest of a thousand years — from ALFRED the...

Grant Hicks and 1 more 21 hours 40 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

440

Albert Bigelow Paine - Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume 1

Until recently, this work has been considered the «go-to» bio of Mark Twain. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April 9, 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. This...

John Greenman 21 hours 30 minutes

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Narratives

454

Edgar Allan Poe - Raven and The Philosophy Of Composition

Poe’s famous narrative poem and the author’s reflections on its composition. (David Wales)

David Wales 42 minutes

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Literary Criticism

437

H. L. Mencken - American Language

«It was part of my daily work, for a good many years, to read the principal English newspapers and reviews; it has been part of my work, all the time, to read the more important English novels, essays, poetry and...

DrPGould and 10 more 15 hours 41 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

509

Sarah Knowles Bolton - Some Articles About Mark Twain

«Samuel Langhorne Clemens», «Mark Twain At Home», «Youth of Mark Twain» & «Mark Twain Gossip» Published in the June 16, 1888 edition of «Literature — An Illustrated Weekly Magazine» (Vol. 1, No. 17) these four,...

John Greenman 41 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Albert Bigelow Paine - Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume II

Until recently, this work has been considered the «go-to» bio of Mark Twain. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April 9, 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. This...

John Greenman 21 hours 57 minutes

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Writing & Linguistics

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Frances Jermain - In the Path of the Alphabet

Language: we all use it and few of us think about the form it takes on the page. But how did the transmittal of ideas in written form evolve from Egyptian hieroglyphics to the ABCs in use in most countries around the...

Lynne T and 5 more 3 hours 37 minutes

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Humor

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Pedro Carolino - English as She is Spoke

English as She is Spoke is a 19th century Portuguese-to-English phrasebook that has become a classic of absurdist humor, owing chiefly to the apparent fact that its writer had absolutely no knowledge of English. It...

J A Carter and 1 more 1 hour 3 minutes

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