Diana Schmidt

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Memoirs

499

Harold Fielding Hall - Soul of a People

In The Soul of a People, Englishman H. Fielding explores the beliefs of the Burmese people. He offers an understandable, and yet thorough, explanation of Buddhism, and illustrates the many ways the people of Burma...

Carol Fullerton-Samsel and 7 more 8 hours 54 minutes

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*Non-fiction

530

Robert Kemp Philp - Enquire Within Upon Everything

Enquire Within Upon Everything was a book of how to do things in domestic life It was first published in 1856 by Houlston and Sons of Paternoster Square in London. Robert Kemp Philp. It was then continuously reprinted...

Susan Morin and 15 more 33 hours 20 minutes

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Family Life

536

Robert Kemp Philp - Reason Why

This collection of useful information on «Common Things» is put in the interesting form of «Why and Because,» and comprehends a familiar explanation of many subjects which occupy a large space in the philosophy of...

Anusha Iyer and 17 more 14 hours 59 minutes

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Family Life

438

Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier - Marriage, volume 2

Lady Juliana is the daughter of the Earl of Courtland. She receives a marriage proposal from a wealthy Duke but much to the horror of her father she elopes to Gretna Green a Scottish soldier Henry Douglas. She is...

Edward Kirkby and 6 more 8 hours 33 minutes

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Single author

461

Marietta Holley - Poems

This is a collection of poems by Marietta Holley, better known as Josiah Allen's Wife. — Summary by Carolin

Ian King and 18 more 3 hours 35 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

1,2K

W. S. Gilbert - Bab Ballads (version 2)

The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In...

Phil Chenevert and 13 more 2 hours 47 minutes

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General Fiction

511

Wilkie Collins - Man and Wife

This 1870 novel by Wilkie Collins centers around a peculiarity of Scottish law of that time, according to which any man and woman 'who were legally entitled to marry and who asserted that they were married before...

corin2of7 and 19 more 24 hours 18 minutes

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Kings and Queens of England with Other Poems

Poetry

455

Mary Ann H. T. Bigelow - Kings and Queens of England with Other Poems

This is a volume of poems by Mary Ann Bigelow, who turned her historical research into a poem in «the Kings and Queens of England». This volume also contains a number of her other poems, especially acrostics, many of...

Rachel and 15 more 1 hour 59 minutes

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Poetry

432

Joseph Rodman Drake - Culprit Fay and Other Poems

A collection, The Culprit Fay and Other Poems, was published posthumously by his daughter in 1835. His best-known poems are the long title-poem of that collection and the patriotic «The American Flag» which was set as...

Oxenhandler and 6 more 1 hour 33 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

541

Bill Nye - Remarks

«The range of subjects treated in this book is wonderful, even to me. It is a library of universal knowledge, and the facts contained in it are different from any other facts now in use. I have carefully guarded, all...

peac and 13 more 16 hours 16 minutes

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Kalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland (Crawford Translation)

Poetry

533

Elias Lönnrot - Kalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland (Crawford Translation)

This is the epic of Finland. It is the combined folk tales of the Finnish nation starting with the birth of the world from the egg of a seabird and continuing to the birth of the Kaleva District, the lands of...

Kyle Raub and 14 more 15 hours 27 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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