Sue Anderson

106 books

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American in the Making, the Life Story of an Immigrant

Biography & Autobiography

425

Marcus Eli Ravage - American in the Making, the Life Story of an Immigrant

“The sweat-shop was for me the cradle of liberty... It was my first university.” Attending lectures and the New York theatre at night; by day sewing sleeves into shirts in a ghetto shop, Marcus Eli Ravage (1884-1965)...

Sue Anderson 8 hours 41 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

438

Sir Alfred Edward East - Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour

Sketching from Nature, Equipment, Colour, Composition, Trees, Skies, Grass, Reflections, Distance — chapters rich with timeless oil painting advice by a master landscape artist, Sir Alfred East. East had an...

Sue Anderson 4 hours 15 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

524

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 037

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, blow-pipe weapons, Oriental china; impressions of America by Enrico Caruso,...

Garth Burton and 12 more 7 hours 7 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Memoirs

548

Elizabeth Gertrude Stern - My Mother and I

Elizabeth Stern was two and a half years old, when her family emigrated from Poland to Pittsburgh. My Mother and I is the story of Stern's Americanization and how it ultimately alienated her from her parents....

Sue Anderson 3 hours 36 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 036

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the discovery of X-rays, earthquakes, Hegel, Sir William Osler, Charles William Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Charles...

Glenn O'Brien and 11 more 5 hours 58 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the Andes

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Francis Bond Head - Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the Andes

“Galloped on with no stopping, but merely to change horses until five o’clock in the evening—very tired indeed, but... saw fresh horses in the corral, and resolved to push on. At half-past seven, after having...

Sue Anderson 7 hours 55 minutes

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Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

Biography & Autobiography

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Sarah Raymond Herndon - Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

“We had spent almost all our money for toll, ferrying and other expenses on the road. It might be a serious matter to be in a strange place without money... There is nothing we can spare so well as Dick.... It would...

Sue Anderson 5 hours 36 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

466

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 035

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include how to swim, Navajo silversmithing, the sun, begonias and ferns, Martin Luther, U.S. Presidents Eisenhower and...

Glenn O'Brien and 12 more 7 hours 28 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 033

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include astronomy, religion, United States history, football, child raising, Tokyo firebombing, and more. (summary by...

Nicholas James Bridgewater and 10 more 6 hours 49 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 032

Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the history of aeroplanes, political speeches, travel, philosophy, Japan, the United Nations, Congressional...

Craig Campbell and 10 more 4 hours 51 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Memoirs

404

Edward Carpenter - My Days and Dreams

Hard to imagine now, but there have been times and places where just wearing sandals could get you labeled as being in rebellion against established society. Two such places were Berkeley, California in the early...

Sue Anderson 12 hours 1 minute

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Essays & Short Works

519

Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg Address 150th Anniversary

On Thursday, November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln gave a brief address at the dedication of the Soldier's National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. This speech is now considered one of the greatest in American...

Ann Boulais and 14 more 35 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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