Lucretia B.
117 books
Literary Criticism
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Geraldine Hodgson - English Literature
This book is not meant to be a History of English Literature, but an introduction for those who do not know much about it, or who may be thinking of it as a «dull, horrid thing» which they have to learn in school. I...
12 hours 21 minutes
Essays & Short Works
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William Cowper Brann - Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast, Volume 1
William Cowper Brann earned the nickname “The Iconoclast” by fearlessly attacking established beliefs and institutions which he thought to be pompous and self-serving. He settled in the wild and wooly West Texas town...
12 hours 37 minutes
Animals
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William Ruschenberger - Elements of Herpetology and Ichthyology
This succinct little textbook from 1844 presents an introduction to herpetology and ichthyology. The information, albeit not current, is still interesting and of use as a general overview of reptiles, amphibians, and...
5 hours 14 minutes
Essays & Short Works
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G. K. Chesterton - Uses of Diversity
A collection of 35 essays by G.K. Chesterton originally published in his weekly columns in «The Illustrated London News» and the «New Witness». The subjects vary greatly from lamp posts to Jane Austen's Emma, from «On...
5 hours 37 minutes