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Epistolary Fiction
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Andrew Lang - Old Friends, Essays in Epistolary Parody
«Every fancy which dwells much with the unborn and immortal characters of Fiction must ask itself, Did the persons in contemporary novels never meet? In so little a world their paths must often have crossed, their...
3 hours 36 minutes
Essays & Short Works
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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...
7 hours 28 minutes
General
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Laura E. Howe Richards - Florence Nightingale the Angel of the Crimea
One evening, some time after the great Crimean War of 1854-55, a company of military and naval officers met at dinner in London. They were talking over the war, as soldiers and sailors love to do, and somebody said:...
3 hours 23 minutes
