Lucretia B.

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Education

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Ogden Codman, Jr. - Decoration of Houses

The Decoration of Houses, a manual of interior design written by Edith Wharton with architect Ogden Codman, was first published in 1897. In the book, the authors denounced Victorian-style interior decoration and...

Elizabeth Klett and 6 more 6 hours 22 minutes

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Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book III

Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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John Locke - Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book III

This is the third book of John Locke's Essay on Human Understanding. Book I was Neither Principles Nor Ideas Are Innate. Book II was Of Ideas and Book III is Of Words. Locke is writing about the ideas we have in our...

Craig Campbell and 7 more 6 hours 20 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Jack London - Revolution, and other Essays

A collection of 13 essays written between 1900 and 1908, published in 1910. The lead essay, «Revolution», outlines how and why London renounced capitalism as a failed social system and declared himself an active...

Michele Fry and 9 more 6 hours 7 minutes

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Christianity - Commentary

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Thomas De Witt Talmage - Abominations of Modern Society

The title gives an accurate description of the book! It is full of old and forgotten words and phrases, Amusing at times, but addressing the problems mentioned in the chapter titles in detail. The troubles of his...

Christopher Smith and 9 more 6 hours 3 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Francis Marion Crawford - Khaled, A Tale of Arabia

Khaled is a powerful jinn, or genius, but he has a good heart. When he sees that Zehowah, the beautiful, virtuous daughter of the king is about to accept a foreign prince as husband, who lied about converting to...

Angelique G. Campbell and 3 more 6 hours 2 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

Christopher Morley - Mince Pie

Mince Pie is a compilation of humorous sketches, poetry, and essays written by Christopher Morley. Morley sets the tone in the preface: «If one asks what excuse there can be for prolonging the existence of these...

Lucretia B. and 9 more 6 hours

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Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 1

History

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Niccolò Machiavelli - Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 1

In «Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius», posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful lessons that could be learnt from the past for his present. As the title mentions, the...

Pamela Nagami and 10 more 5 hours 57 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

Charlotte Perkins Gilman - With Her in Ourland

Third in the trilogy of the feminist classics, after Moving the Mountain and Herland . It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodical The Forerunner . In Herland , three American young men discover a...

Amelia Chesley and 4 more 5 hours 53 minutes

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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...

thestorygirl and 14 more 5 hours 37 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

Frederika Richardson Macdonald - Secret of Charlotte Brontë

Twenty years ago, now, I attempted (but was not especially successful in the task) to establish upon the personal knowledge that my own residence as a pupil in the historical Pensionnat in the Rue d'Isabelle, at...

Lucretia B. and 7 more 5 hours 28 minutes

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Crook in the Lot; or, The Sovereignty and Wisdom of God, in the Afflictions of Men, Displayed

Christianity - Commentary

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Thomas Boston - Crook in the Lot; or, The Sovereignty and Wisdom of God, in the Afflictions of Men, Displayed

A meditation on Ecclesiastes 7:3, «Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight which he hath made crooked?,» The Crook in the Lot considers the purposes of God for suffering and affliction in the life of...

Chris Bunn and 5 more 5 hours 25 minutes

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Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment

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Élisabeth Celnart - Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment

A mid-nineteenth century book of etiquette. (Summary by Libby Gohn)

Lyn Silva and 16 more 5 hours 23 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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