William Clark Russell is well-known for his maritime stories, for which he could draw upon his own experiences as a sailor in the British Navy....
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William Clark Russell is well-known for his maritime stories, for which he could draw upon his own experiences as a sailor in the British Navy....
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William Clark Russell is well-known for his maritime stories, for which he could draw upon his own experiences as a sailor in the British Navy....
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Long time since this hand hath penned a preface. Now only to say, that this romance, as originally published, was written when the author was...
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The volume begins with "The Defeat of Youth", a sequence of twenty-two sonnets that explores irreconcilability of the ideal and the disappointing...
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New Mexico's hot, dry winds are taking their toll: cattle suffer long treks to get food and water. But it is not just a hard time for them. Lucy...
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.... And the natives of Capella IV, philosophers at heart, were not ones to ignore the Golden...
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Bhagavad-Gita is the most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue’ – so opined William von Humboldt....
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This collection of ten stories shows Edith Wharton dissecting some of the customs, habits and vagaries of courtship and marriage, particularly as...
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The Death of Ivan Ilyitch is the story of a socially ambitious middle-aged judge who contracts an unexplained and untreatable illness. As Ivan...
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Three little friends are taken to the County Fair in Uncle Billy’s motorcar, but a slight delay occurs on the way. How they finally arrived at the...
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The plot centers around Laevsky, who is living in a small seaside town in the Caucasus after running away with another man's wife, Nadyezhda...
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This collection of Frank Norris' stories was published after his death in 1902. These stories range in topic from the machinations of the...
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The Infamy Speech was a speech delivered by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a Joint Session of the US Congress on December 8,...
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On Duties (Latin: DE OFFICIIS) discusses virtue, expediency and apparent conflicts between the two. St. Ambrose, St. Jerome and other Doctors of...
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frantically begging us not to let him "fall" again. Holding him securely on the bed and trying to reassure him, Grosnoff said: "Straps and ropes...
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Charles Quintard was an Episcopal priest who, in spite of his pro-Union stance, volunteered to be a chaplain in the Confederate army in the...
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Young peoples book of adventure in aviation with young women in the lead rolls. This is in the earlier days of aviation.
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This is a volume of poetry by Henry Lawson, the well-known Australian poet Henry Lawson. Some of the poems in this collection are still widely...
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A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours - starting without a...
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They came home from a strange journey.... And heroes they might have been-a little dog and a man!
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This is a volume of early narrative poems by William Morris, first published in 1858. While at the time of writing the most important stages of...
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Wilhelm Stekel was an Austrian physician and psychologist and one of Freud’s earliest followers. Covering a variety of topics he takes a...
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An extremely wealthy but reclusive man has died, leaving an eccentric will which hints at great riches hidden somewhere in the house. Most of the...