Maria de Fátima da Silva
39 books
Essays & Short Works
1.6K
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
General
1.3K
Lurana Sheldon - My Queen: A Weekly Journal for Young Women. Issue 1, Sept 1900
This is the first issue of a wonderful weekly magazine aimed at young women. They each contain a novella following the adventures of Marion Marlowe, «Only a Farmer's Daughter» who went from «Farm to Fortune» and all...
2 hours 32 minutes
Christian Fiction
1.5K
Grace Livingston Hill - Pansies for Thoughts
The young Grace Livingston compiled this book using quotes from her aunt's works; Isabella Macdonald Alden (who wrote under the pen name «Pansy»). It is a quote for each day of the year from one of the «Pansy Books»...
2 hours 53 minutes
Romance
1.1K
Mary Stewart Cutting - Little Stories of Married Life
Marriage is a big adventure. It makes for great stories, too: both in case of a happy marriage and in case of an unhappy one. Eleven of these stories are collected in this collection, concerning all the different...
5 hours 20 minutes
Single author
1.5K
Robert W. Service - Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
Robert Service was born in Lancashire, England, but at age 21 moved to Canada and eventually ended up in the Yukon during the gold rush. His poems «The Shooting of Dan McGrew» and «The Cremation of Sam McGee» helped...
3 hours 2 minutes
