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William F. Bigelow - Good Housekeeping Marriage Book
A collection of articles from Good Housekeeping magazine, The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book focuses on the subject of marriage. With instructions and advice from courtship to raising children, this collection aims...
5 hours 11 minutes
Satire
538
Charles Dickens - Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Old Martin Chuzzlewit has heaps of money that has never brought him anything but misery. Estranged from his grandson and namesake, when word gets out that he is ill, he finds himself surrounded by a throng of...
32 hours 23 minutes
Self-Help
558
Emily Post - Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home
From advice on planning the perfect wedding to eating an artichoke correctly, Emily Post offers instruction on how to live a well-mannered life circa 1922. With a sometimes gentle, sometimes sharp wit, she maintains...
21 hours 41 minutes
Reference
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Samuel Johnson - Plan and Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
The published dictionary was a huge book: with pages nearly 1½ feet tall and 20 inches wide, it contained 42,773 words; it also sold for the huge price of £4/10s. ($400?). It would be years before «Johnson's...
2 hours 22 minutes