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William Lisle Bowles - On Hearing the Messiah

Bowles came from a line of Church of England clergymen. His great-grandfather Matthew Bowles, grandfather Dr Thomas Bowles and father William Thomas Bowles had all been parish priests. In 1789 he published, in a...

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 15 minutes

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Poetry

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Bliss Carman - Behind the Arras: A Book of the Unseen

This is a volume of some of Bliss Carman's most beautiful narrative poems. All of the poems share a rather melancholy tone, which Carman uses to bring out beautiful images of feeling. — Summary by Carolin

Peter Yearsley and 7 more 1 hour 24 minutes

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Poetry

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Katharine Tynan Hinkson - Flower of Youth: Poems in War Time

This is a volume of poetry by Irish poet and writer Kathrine Tynan about World War I. Published in 1917, the poems translate the general atmosphere of fear and grief prevalent across Europe into beautiful verses. —...

Bruce Kachuk and 4 more 1 hour 12 minutes

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Thomas O'Hagan - In The Trenches

Dr. O'Hagan writes with a clear eye, a sane mind, and a sensitive heart. While agreeing in the main with Walter de la Mare, that «every book lives or perishes by virtue or default of its artistic sincerity,»...

Andrew Coleman and 10 more 15 minutes

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Never: A Handbook For The Uninitiated And Inexperienced Aspirants To Refined Society's Giddy Heights And Glittering Attainments

Humor

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Nathan Dane Urner - Never: A Handbook For The Uninitiated And Inexperienced Aspirants To Refined Society's Giddy Heights And Glittering Attainments

An 1883 tongue-in-cheek spoof of manners and mannerisms of “society”. ‘the “Open Sesame” to that jealously-guarded realm,—good society,—in which you aspire to circulate freely and shine with becoming luster…. And I,...

David Wales 1 hour 8 minutes

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Margaret Steele Anderson - To The Fighting Weak

Margaret Steele Anderson was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1867 and was educated in the public school of Louisville, with special courses at Wellesley College. From 1901 Miss Anderson was Literary Editor of the...

Bruce Kachuk and 8 more 20 minutes

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Susanna Moodie - Twilight Hour

Susanna Moodie was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time. Her letters and journals contain valuable information about life in...

Bruce Kachuk and 7 more 9 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

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Gertrude Chandler Warner - Star Stories for Little Folks

Gertrude Chandler Warner, known mainly for her «Boxcar Children» series of mystery books, published this small book of Astronomy, Constellations, and the stories behind them in 1918. It follows the story of a little...

DebK and 3 more 39 minutes

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Single author

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Arthur Hugh Clough - Selected Poems

During his short but eventful life, Arthur Hugh Clough wrote poems on subjects as varied as religious doubt, European politics and social injustice. This selection has been chosen from his collected works so that...

Newgatenovelist 1 hour 21 minutes

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William Cullen Bryant - October - A Sonnet

William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. Bryant edited the very successful Picturesque America which was published between 1872 and 1874. This...

Algy Pug and 17 more 22 minutes

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Sidney Lanier - Ship of Earth

But how short was his day, and how slender his opportunity! From the time he was of age he waged a constant, courageous, hopeless fight against adverse circumstance for room to live and write. Much very dear, and...

Bruce Kachuk and 12 more 13 minutes

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H. L. Mencken - Ventures into Verse

Better known for his biting satire, Mencken's first book was this small volume of verses. — Summary by Larry Wilson

Larry Wilson and 4 more 46 minutes

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