Chris Pyle

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Humorous Fiction

588

Charles S. Brooks - Hints to Pilgrims

In this collection of 17 short essays, Charles S. Brooks (1878-1934), with the usual panache and wit, which he also displays in his comedies, describes funny incidents that can happen to people on holidays or in...

Bob Dunlop and 8 more 4 hours 44 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)

860

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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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

447

Vachel Lindsay - Sunshine

It is hardly necessary, perhaps, to mention Mr. Lindsay's loyalty to the people of his place and hour, or the training in sympathy with their aims and ideals which he has achieved through vagabondish wanderings in the...

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 23 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

545

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - Ballad of the Oysterman

from THE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: TO MY READERS NAY, blame me not; I might have spared Your patience many a trivial verse, Yet these my earlier welcome shared, So, let the better shield the...

Bruce Kachuk and 14 more 39 minutes

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Poetry Of 'The Double Dealer', January-December 1922

Anthologies

460

Poetry Of 'The Double Dealer', January-December 1922

117 poems from the January — December 1922 issues of New Orleans-based literary magazine, The Double Dealer, edited by Julius Weis Friend. Some are famous (John Gould Fletcher, Maxwell Bodenheim, Arthur Symons, Muna...

Nemo and 7 more 2 hours 45 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

485

Sara Teasdale - Winter Stars

This Weekly Poem is taken from Flame and Shadow, Copyright, 1920 by THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. — Summary by David Lawrence

Andrej Antunovic and 16 more 19 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

495

Atlantic Classics

The Atlantic was a popular periodical with a wide range of essays and stories. In an effort to remain current, many strong and valid submissions ended up being pushed aside. The Atlantic Classic was an experimental...

MaryAnn and 10 more 7 hours 45 minutes

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Family Life

528

Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Domestic Bliss

This scene of 'Domestic Bliss' is from Poems of Cheer by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. (Pub 1914) — Summary by David Lawrence

Ahmad Abdullah and 12 more 16 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

510

Henry Lawson - When Your Pants Begin To Go

Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is...

Algy Pug and 14 more 59 minutes

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Poetry

482

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Poems on Slavery

This is a short volume of abolitionist poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in 1842. As Wikipedia notes, Longfellow himself was not entirely satisfied with his work: «However, as Longfellow himself...

aniroo and 5 more 15 minutes

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Poetry

482

John Clare - Poems

John Clare was a working-class English poet, best known for his poetic descriptions of the English Countryside. He is also one of the few popular poets of the 19th century, who, after being largely forgotten for years...

Bruce Kachuk and 5 more 4 hours 37 minutes

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*Non-fiction

458

John Farrar - Bookman, March 1921

This precursor to The New Yorker magazine features several Algonquin Roundtable regulars, including Broun, Woolcott, and Morley. Editor is John C. Farrar, an American editor, writer and publisher. Farrar founded two...

Elanor and 6 more 6 hours 2 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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