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Louis Untermeyer - Challenge

Louis Untermeyer introduced may students to poetry through his many collections that he edited. His own poetry ranges from inspirational to cynical. Challenge is his first collection of poems, mature, but reflecting...

Larry Wilson and 8 more 1 hour 51 minutes

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World’s Famous Orations, Vol. III: Great Britain - I

Political Science

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William Jennings Bryan - World’s Famous Orations, Vol. III: Great Britain - I

In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period,...

Phil Schempf and 7 more 6 hours 28 minutes World's Famous Orations

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Ballads

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Andrew Lang - Collection of Ballads

This is a collection of ballads, edited, with an introduction and notes by Andrew Lang. The ballads range widely in style, from the historic to the romantic, from the short to the epic, from Scotland to France. Some...

Lynda Marie Neilson and 7 more 6 hours 25 minutes

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Writing & Linguistics

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Frances Jermain - In the Path of the Alphabet

Language: we all use it and few of us think about the form it takes on the page. But how did the transmittal of ideas in written form evolve from Egyptian hieroglyphics to the ABCs in use in most countries around the...

Lynne T and 5 more 3 hours 37 minutes

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Cakes & Ale, A Dissertation on Banquets Interspersed with Various Recipes, More or Less Original, and anecdotes, mainly veracious

Cooking

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Edward Spencer - Cakes & Ale, A Dissertation on Banquets Interspersed with Various Recipes, More or Less Original, and anecdotes, mainly veracious

A long time ago, an estimable lady fell at the feet of an habitual publisher, and prayed unto him:— “Give, oh! give me the subject of a book for which the world has a need, and I will write it for you.” “Are...

DrPGould and 6 more 7 hours 1 minute

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Poetry

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Poems on Slavery

This is a short volume of abolitionist poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in 1842. As Wikipedia notes, Longfellow himself was not entirely satisfied with his work: «However, as Longfellow himself...

aniroo and 5 more 15 minutes

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Poetry

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Hannah Flagg Gould - Mother's Dream, and Other Poems

This is a volume of poetry by Hannah Flagg Gould. Ms Gould was an immensely popular author of children's poetry during her lifetime, and her poems will still be enjoyed by children as well as adults today. — Summary...

Alan H. Staples and 11 more 5 hours 6 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Bertha Evangeline Bush - Story of Robin Hood

«He was brave and kind and merry always, and all the English people—except England's oppressors—loved him with all their hearts and delighted in his adventures. The story of what he did was put into songs and sung at...

Devorah Allen and 4 more 58 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Albert Payson Terhune - Superwomen

In this 1916 work, Albert Payson Terhune introduces twelve immensely influential women, whose actions influenced world history. Terhune chooses well-known figures whose stories are as much myth as history, like...

BettyB and 3 more 7 hours 55 minutes

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Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century

Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics

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Agnes Mary Clerke - Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century

Melanie T and 9 more 23 hours 50 minutes

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Animals & Nature

Frances Jenkins Olcott - Wonder Garden

«Here are 150 nature myths and short stories from all parts of the World. They are the kind that children delight in — tales of transformations of maidens into trees and fountains, of youths into flowers, and of men...

Debbie R. Baker Robinson and 36 more 10 hours 46 minutes

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Democracy of the Constitution, and other Addresses and Essays

History

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Henry Cabot Lodge - Democracy of the Constitution, and other Addresses and Essays

Henry Cabot Lodge was a popular American Senator from Massachusetts. He did not only make a name for himself as a politician, but also as an essayist, combining his personal experience as Senator with a study of the...

Colleen McMahon and 4 more 8 hours 6 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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