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223 books
Modern (19th C)
477
Harris Newmark - Sixty Years in Southern California 1853-1913
Harris Newmark was personally acquainted with every person and family involved in the founding of the city of Los Angeles, California. He gathers into this well-written book his reminiscences of the period from 1853...
22 hours 41 minutes
Family Life
469
George Gissing - Demos: A Story of English Socialism
«Richard Mutimer is delighted to inherit a large fortune. As a socialist, he means to use it well: he will open a factory in which workers would be treated well, he will advance his party's causes through his own...
20 hours 55 minutes
*Non-fiction
515
John Calvin - Commentary on the Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians, Volume 1
John Calvin was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. Calvin's writing and preachings provided the seeds for the branch of theology that bears his name. Originally trained as a...
19 hours 27 minutes
Performing Arts
463
Professor Louis Hoffman - Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
This «how-to» book covers everything for the 1800's illusionist, from stage presence & dress, program and stage arrangement, to how to do tricks with cards, coins, watches, rings, handkerchiefs, dominoes and dice,...
19 hours 8 minutes
War & Military
450
Jefferson Davis - Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1b
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward...
18 hours 52 minutes