J. McDougall

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Essays & Short Works

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Samuel Johnson - Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson

This is a volume of selected essays by «the great master of reason» Samuel Johnson. The most famous exerpts from The Rambler, The Adventurer and The Idler are included, covering a vast range of topics. — Summary by...

Barbara Baker and 10 more 13 hours 21 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Xenophon - Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus

The Cyropaedia (or Cyropedia) is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, written in the early 4th century BC by the Athenian gentleman-soldier, and student of Socrates, Xenophon of Athens. The title...

Larry Wilson and 12 more 11 hours 26 minutes

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History

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Thomas Carlyle - French Revolution Volume 1 the Bastille

The French Revolution: A History was written by the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian Thomas Carlyle. The three-volume work, first published in 1837 (with a revised edition in print by 1857), charts the...

shawnzhu and 19 more 11 hours 11 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Anatole France - Gods are Athirst

The Gods Are Athirst (French: Les dieux ont soif, also translated as The Gods Are Thirsty or The Gods Will Have Blood) is a 1912 novel by Anatole France. The story follows the young Parisian painter Évariste...

Nicholas Clifford and 12 more 8 hours 32 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) - Odes and Carmen Saeculare

Flawlessly hammered out, as if from eternal bronze—«aere perennius»—The Odes of Horace are the consummate expression of the pride, the reserve, the tragic playfulness, the epicurean calm, the absolute distinction of...

KHand and 13 more 4 hours 28 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

Lucy Maud Montgomery - Watchman and Other Poems

While L. M. Montgomery is better known for her novels, such as Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon , she also wrote hundreds of poems. Her love of beauty, nature, and the sea is evident in this, the only...

Beth Thomas and 19 more 3 hours 2 minutes

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Poetry

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Julia Caroline Dorr - Friar Anselmo, and Other Poems

This is a collection of poems by Julia Caroline Dorr. — Summary by Carolin

Chris Pyle and 13 more 2 hours 3 minutes

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Single author

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Aldous Huxley - Leda

Though he gained recognition for his later essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1920, Leda is his fourth compilation of poetry. It begins with the passionate and...

sdaeley17 and 6 more 1 hour 55 minutes

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Single author

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Aldous Huxley - Defeat of Youth and Other Poems

Though later known for his essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1918, The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems is his third compilation of poetry. The volume begins with...

Arthur Krolman and 4 more 1 hour 23 minutes

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Aldous Huxley - Burning Wheel

Though Aldous Huxley is best known for his later novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. The Burning Wheel is his first work, a collection of thirty poems that pay homage in style to poets who...

Larry Wilson and 8 more 46 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Sam Walter Foss - Poster-Painter's Masterpiece

Sam Walter Foss was an American librarian and poet. For many years the opening lines from Foss' The Coming American («Bring me men to match my mountains / Bring me men to match my plains / Men with empires in their...

Bruce Kachuk and 13 more 38 minutes

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Henry Lawson - Shame of Going Back

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

Algy Pug and 16 more 36 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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