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Memoirs

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Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville - Travels to Oaxaca

Botanical Piracy! A French botanist plots to steal red dye cochineal insects from Spanish Mexico and transplant them and their cacti hosts to the French Caribbean. The year is 1776. Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville...

Sue Anderson 10 hours 30 minutes

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Twentieth Century Negro Literature or A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro

Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Daniel Wallace Culp - Twentieth Century Negro Literature or A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro

The object of this book is… (1) To enlighten the uninformed white people on the intellectual ability of the Negro. (2) To give to those, who are interested in the Negro race, a better idea of the extent to which he...

Devorah Allen and 13 more 32 hours 6 minutes

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State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1857 - 1860)

Literary Collections

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James Buchanan - State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1857 - 1860)

The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition...

garybclayton and 2 more 6 hours 49 minutes State of the Union Addresses

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Compassion

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her works include Poems of Passion and Solitude, which contains the lines «Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone». This poem is taken for...

Algy Pug and 15 more 19 minutes

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Family

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Effie Mae Hency Williams - Hive of Busy Bees

In the summer, Don and Joyce stay on their Grandma and Grandpa's farm. They have great fun, and every night Grandma tells them a story about a different kind of bee such as Bee Kind, Bee Polite, and Bee Honest that...

Rosa Grace 1 hour 42 minutes

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Plays

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Richard Steele - Funeral: or Grief A-La-Mode

The Funeral: or, Grief à-la-Mode, a Comedy, was written in the summer of 1701, and given to Christopher Rich, of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in October. Soon afterwards it was acted, and it was published by Jacob...

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Plays

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Arthur Wing Pinero - Gay Lord Quex

Lord Quex, after a life of philandering, has decided to reform and marry. But he is not believed, particularly by the guardian of his intended. The play shows the difficulties in shaking a discreditable past — and how...

3 hours 31 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Asphodel

Like the Asphodel, a plant which grows far away from England, Daphne grows far away from home. In her first chance of freedom, at the age of almost 17, she finds an opportunity to forget for a while… Forget that her...

Jim Locke and 3 more 19 hours 50 minutes

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Christianity - Other

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Asa Gray - Natural Science and Religion

Asa Gray was a highly-regarded botanist at Harvard University and a friend and collaborator of Charles Darwin. As a Christian, Gray was concerned with the disconnect developing through the nineteenth century between...

Barry Ganong 2 hours 1 minute

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Day Will Come

It is an ideal honeymoon of an ideal couple. But somehow, the wife cannot stop dreaming that her husband would be shot and killed. He dismisses her dreams until they come true. Who commited the murder? How would the...

Celine Major 16 hours 18 minutes

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Epics

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Hermann and Dorothea

There are few modern poems of any country so perfect in their kind as the «Hermann and Dorothea» of Goethe. In clearness of characterization, in unity of tone, in the adjustment of background and foreground, in the...

Foon 2 hours 29 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Mary Roberts Rinehart - K.

«K» is the initial of the mysterious lodger without a first name who rents a room from Sidney to escape his past. Sidney herself refuses the proposals of Joe in order to become a nurse and do useful work in the...

Beth Thomas and 16 more 9 hours 51 minutes

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