Timothy Ferguson

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Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance

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Edith Birkhead - Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance

A seminal essay on the development of horror as a genre, highly influential on later writers. — Summary by Timothy Ferguson

Timothy Ferguson 7 hours 5 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

449

Andrew Lang - Letters to Dead Authors

With twenty two letters, addressed to various already deceased authors, Andrew Lang discusses literary subjects with his usual humour and acidity. The impulse for the writing of the letters came, almost as a joke,...

Brian Mansi and 9 more 4 hours 36 minutes

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Poetry

500

Edward Dyson - Bush Debate

In 1892, two of Australia's best poets came up with a scheme to make some money. They arranged to have an argument in the Weekly Bulletin, and since they were being paid by the word, this let them fire back and...

Timothy Ferguson and 3 more 1 hour 11 minutes

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Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic

The sea has always been, by the mystery of its horizon, the fury of its storms, and the variableness of the atmosphere above it, the foreordained land of romance. In all ages and with all sea-going races there has...

Arnie Horton and 5 more 4 hours 46 minutes

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War & Military

460

Carl von Clausewitz - On War (Volumes 2 and 3)

Perhaps the most famous work on the philosophy of war, and the effective use of military force, by a European author. (Summary by Timothy Ferguson)

Timothy Ferguson 22 hours 8 minutes

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Sir Francis Galton - Art of Travel

The Art of Travel is a handbook of practical advice for the adventure seeking Victorian. We hear how to organize all steps of a voyage, from the very beginnings (qualifications of a traveller, how to organize an...

Availle and 16 more 13 hours 38 minutes

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War & Military

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Lord Thomas Cochrane - Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 1

This two volume work is the autobiography of Lord Cochrane, a naval captain of the Napoleonic period. His adventures are seminal to the development of naval fiction as a genre. Marryat sailed with Cochrane, while...

Timothy Ferguson 11 hours 19 minutes

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Gladstone Colony: An Unwritten Chapter of Australian History

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James Francis Hogan - Gladstone Colony: An Unwritten Chapter of Australian History

This is an early history of the failed attempt to found the colony of North Australia at Gladstone, in what is now Central Queensland. (Summary by Timothy Ferguson)

Timothy Ferguson 9 hours 29 minutes

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Children's Fiction

473

Clayton Edwards - Treasury of Heroes and Heroines

It would be pleasant indeed to gather the characters of this book together and listen to the conversation of wholly different but interested couples—for this is a book of contrasts and has been written as such. Lives...

Lucretia B. and 20 more 11 hours 40 minutes

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Poetry

456

Australian Miscellany

A collection in celebration of 2012 Year of Reading Australia. Readers chose fiction, non fiction and poetry — we only asked that the readings should have some sort of Australian hook. So they can be by an Australian...

Algy Pug and 12 more 4 hours 32 minutes

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Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt

History

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Gaston Maspero - Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt

A handbook of Egyptian archaeology, issued by the British Museum, considered suitable for British tourists traveling to Egypt in the 19th Century. (Introduction by Timothy Ferguson)

Timothy Ferguson 6 hours 50 minutes

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Queensland Railways - Tours in the South Coast District

An early booklet, designed to encourage tourism in the northern parts of New South Wales, and the southern parts of Queensland, particularly the area now in the Gold Coast. (Introduction by Timothy Ferguson)

Timothy Ferguson 1 hour 9 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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