Edmund Bloxam

17 books

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Historical Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Catherine De' Medici

The Philosophical Studies from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine) are a series of works that are intended as a reflection on history in part through the use of fiction. 'Catherine de Medici' is one such 'study',...

Edmund Bloxam 11 hours 2 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol - Taras Bulba and Other Tales

A collection of classic Russian literature from the mind of one of the world's well know authors. The collection includes Taras Bulba, St. John's Eve, The Cloak, How The Two Ivans Quarrelled, The Mysterious Portrait,...

Jules Hawryluk and 5 more 12 hours 30 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Samuel Merwin - Drugging a Nation

Drugging a Nation is a journalistic reveal of the extent to which the British Empire was culpable in the dissemination and subsequent near total addiction to opium of the Chinese people in the nineteenth century. So...

Edmund Bloxam 4 hours 5 minutes

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Modern

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Charles Ives - Essays Before a Sonata

Some philosophical studies in relation to the ideas of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne. Although the sonata is not explicitly referenced in this text, the ideas of these philosophers were attempted to be integrated into...

Edmund Bloxam 3 hours 21 minutes

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Humor

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Lawton Mackall - Bizarre (version 2)

A series of humorous musings, short-length jokes, often concerning words and manners. — Summary by Edmund Bloxam

Edmund Bloxam 3 hours 11 minutes

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Music

730

Edward Baxter Perry - Descriptive Analyses of Piano Works

A look at the poetic motivations behind certain piano works. An understanding of these pieces on purely poetic grounds, with little insight into the technical or objective side of the music. How to understand the...

Edmund Bloxam 6 hours 21 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 035

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include how to swim, Navajo silversmithing, the sun, begonias and ferns, Martin Luther, U.S. Presidents Eisenhower and...

Glenn O'Brien and 12 more 7 hours 28 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 033

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include astronomy, religion, United States history, football, child raising, Tokyo firebombing, and more. (summary by...

Nicholas James Bridgewater and 10 more 6 hours 49 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Case of Wagner / Nietzsche Contra Wagner / Selected Aphorisms

Biography & Autobiography

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Case of Wagner / Nietzsche Contra Wagner / Selected Aphorisms

A collection of three of Nietzsche's writings concerning the music of Wagner. In particular, he relates Wagner's music as degenerate, unrefined and unintelligent and relates it to a gradually degenerating German...

Edmund Bloxam 3 hours

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Science Fiction

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Short Science Fiction Collection 050

Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative...

Tommy Howell and 11 more 11 hours 40 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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Satire

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Jonathan Swift - Tale of a Tub

A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, composed between 1694 and 1697, that was eventually published in 1704. It is arguably his most difficult satire, and perhaps his most masterly. The...

Edmund Bloxam 4 hours 26 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Mary Esther Miller MacGregor - Black-Bearded Barbarian

A fictionalized biography of George Mackay (1844-1901), an influential Presbyterian missionary in northern Taiwan. (Summary by Edmund Bloxam)

Edmund Bloxam 4 hours 26 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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