James E. Carson

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Douay-Rheims Version

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Douay-Rheims Version (DRV) - Bible (DRV) New Testament

The Douay Rheims New Testament, published in 1582, is a translation of St Jerome's Latin Vulgate which dates from the fourth century. It influenced production of the King James version of the Bible to come some years...

James E. Carson 25 hours 22 minutes Bible (Douay-Rheims Version)

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 4

Anthologies

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 4

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern , is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering «American households a mass of good reading», the editors drew from...

Cynthia Moyer and 22 more 21 hours 59 minutes Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

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Essays

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Oxford Book of American Essays

Collection of 32 essays by American authors ranging from Benjamin Frannklin to Emerson to Whitman to Henry James to Theodore Roosevelt. On subjects from the gout to insects with a 24 hour life span to old bachelors to...

James E. Carson 20 hours 28 minutes

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War & Military

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Theodore Roosevelt - Naval War of 1812

Somewhat detailed history of naval engagements between the United States and England during the War of 1812, from a decidely American perspective. Completed by the author as a young man at age 24. After 120 years, it...

James E. Carson 19 hours 49 minutes

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General Fiction

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Joseph Conrad - Chance

Apparently a two part story about a Damsel and a Knight, perhaps a damsel who depends upon the kindness of strangers. It was originally entitled «Dynamite» and first published by installments in the New York Herald....

James E. Carson 16 hours 59 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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William Carleton - Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine

A story about the Irish, just before the onset of the famine of 1847, with all the color and dialogue of a man who lived it. (Summary by JCarson)

James E. Carson 16 hours 22 minutes

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General Fiction

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Elizabeth von Arnim - Pastor's Wife

Written by an author born in Australia, grew up in England, married in Germany, and then flew to the United States. A tale about a young woman, freed up from the bonds of her family life, to wonder all around in...

James E. Carson 16 hours 19 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Robert Hugh Benson - Come Rack! Come Rope!

Come Rack! Come Rope! is a historical novel by the English priest and writer Robert Hugh Benson, a convert to Catholicism from Anglicanism. Set in Derbyshire at the time of the Elizabethan persecution of Catholics,...

Maria Therese and 3 more 14 hours 21 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Father Goriot

One of Balzac's most popular works, set around 1815 during the re-ascendancy of the Bourbon kings following the defeat of Napoleon. Said to have been an inspiration to Charles Dickens and Henry James as well as...

James E. Carson 11 hours 44 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Magic Skin

Something along the lines of Dorian Gray as part of the Comedies Humane Philosophique, this is Balzac's first successful novel. He even wrote «criticisms» of the writing himself in promotion of the book, in addition...

James E. Carson 11 hours 28 minutes

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General Fiction

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George Moore - Celibates

The author is considered the first great Irish writer of realist fiction and is said to have been an inspiration for James Joyce. Celibates is a novel of three characters: Mildred Lawson, John Norton and Agnes...

James E. Carson 10 hours 34 minutes

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General Fiction

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Ernest Poole - His Family

The 1910s is historically considered the decade of greatest social change in history. It saw the advent and proliferation of the automobile, electricity, lighting, radio, telephone and cinema. Our present time of...

James E. Carson 10 hours 31 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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