Lucretia B.

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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...

Lynette Caulkins and 11 more 12 hours 21 minutes

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Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Annie Denton Cridge - Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams

«Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams» is the first known feminist utopian novel written by a woman. The text features nine dreams experienced by a first-person female narrator. In the first...

Elsie Selwyn and 6 more 2 hours 57 minutes

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Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast, Volume 1

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...

William Allan Jones and 13 more 12 hours 37 minutes

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Writing & Linguistics

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Mary Elizabeth Brown - Dedications

Dedications is an anthology of the forms used from the earliest days of book-making to the present time. My purpose in the following anthology of dedications has been to make a representative, rather than an...

Larry Wilson and 11 more 13 hours 17 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Walter Rowlands - Among the Great Masters of the Drama

In «Among the great masters of the drama; scenes in the lives of famous actors; thirty-two reproductions of famous pictures with text», Walter Rowlands introduces us to the most famous playwrights and actors that...

Nemo and 12 more 4 hours 19 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Mildred Duff - Catherine Booth

Catherine Booth (1829 – 1890) was the wife of William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army in England. She was a full-partner with her husband in the ministry and work of the movement which from the beginning...

Larry Wilson and 8 more 3 hours 16 minutes

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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...

Nichalia Schwartz and 5 more 5 hours 14 minutes

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Silver Chimes in Syria: Glimpses of a Missionary's Experiences

Christianity - Biographies

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William S. Nelson - Silver Chimes in Syria: Glimpses of a Missionary's Experiences

William S. Nelson, D.D., was appointed as a missionary to Syria by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, USA in 1888. In this short works, as the title suggests, he gives glimpses into his life as...

Larry Wilson and 9 more 3 hours 1 minute

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Satire

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Gail Hamilton - Battle of the Books

«When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for an author to dissolve the bands which have connected him with his publishers, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that he should declare...

Amelia Chesley and 5 more 7 hours 38 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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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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Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Lucan - Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars

Lucan's only surviving work, De Bello Civili , more generally known as the Pharsalia , is an epic poem about the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great. The title given by posterity to the poem refers...

Dave Gillespie and 7 more 9 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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