Diana Schmidt

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Nature

457

Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No 2, September 1899

«Birds and All Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color...

NoelBadrian and 8 more 2 hours 35 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Action & Adventure Fiction

561

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Poison Island

Mysterious old Captain Coffin not only has a wild story about a Honduran island where treasure lies, he has a map. But they must be wary because it also holds “a poison that kills a man and keeps him fresh as paint”....

Daniel Goodson and 10 more 9 hours 10 minutes

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Poetry

477

Madison Cawein - Voice on the Wind, and Other Poems

This is a volume of poems by Madison Julius Cawein, «the Keats of Kentucky» , published at the height of his popularity in 1902. — Summary by Carolin

Sonia and 8 more 1 hour 27 minutes

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Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children

Children's Fiction

385

Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children

From the preface of the book: «To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by Negro writers, which colored children could read with interest and pleasure and in which they could find a...

Diana Schmidt and 3 more 6 hours 32 minutes

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Memoirs

415

Caroline Cowles Richards Clarke - Village Life in America

A diary of a young school girl in Canandaigua, New York during the Civil War. (Summary by MaryElizabeth)

Mary-Elizabeth Arndt and 7 more 5 hours 39 minutes

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Nature

488

Charles William Burkett - Agriculture for Beginners

A textbook used by many public schools in the early 20th century. The authors believe that «agriculture is eminently a teachable subject. They see no difference between teaching the child the fundamental principles of...

Sarah Jennings and 7 more 7 hours 21 minutes

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Poetry

543

Susan Coolidge - Last Verses

Susan Coolidge was the pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, who is best known for her What Katy Did series. This is the last of three volumes of her verse. — Summary by Rachel

Christine Lehman and 6 more 2 hours 54 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

466

Kenneth Grahame - Pagan Papers

We join our thoughtful author on a dreamy stroll at dusk through the English countryside, and listen to his nonchalant, slightly scattered musings on the human condition...everything from loafing about and old book...

Will Cooper and 10 more 2 hours 28 minutes

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Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 05, Dec. 2,1879

Children's Fiction

478

Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 05, Dec. 2,1879

Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, short stories, fiction and nonfiction, anecdotes, jokes, artwork, craft...

Jeff Moon and 6 more 57 minutes Harper's Young People

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Single Author Collections

523

Louisa May Alcott - 4 Stories by Louisa May Alcott

Here are four delightful short stories written by the famous author specifically for girls. As she says in the tiny preface «These stories were written for my own amusement during a period of enforced seclusion. The...

Roohi and 3 more 3 hours 28 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

516

L. Frank Baum - John Dough and the Cherub

An evil Arabian sorcerer loans a golden flask full of the Great Elixir — a magic liquid that endows a person with pronounced health, strength, and longevity — to a colorblind baker's wife to stop it falling into the...

Beth Thomas and 7 more 4 hours 27 minutes

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Poetry

478

Joseph Horatio Chant - Gleams of Sunshine

This is a volume of religious, and as the subtitle of the book says, 'optimistic' poems by J.H. Chant, a Canadian minister of the United Church. — Summary by Carolin

Jeff Moon and 15 more 3 hours 5 minutes

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New

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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