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Items from the Call-Chronicle-Examiner, April 19, 1906
In The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
During the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906, newspaper reporters in the stricken city made a heroic effort to keep the public infor…
December Sixth, 1917
In Poems
Poet Duncan M. Matheson lived in troubled times. These were times of World War I and its accompanying carnage, privation and pervasive adver…
The Journal of a Modern Lady
In The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume One
Sit back and listen to these light-hearted witty rhymes and see the world Jonathan Swift saw -- and maybe recognize your own. Think there is…
Part 2
In Collaboration
It is Paris sometime after the Franco-Prussian War (1870--Germany won--the French Second Republic collapsed--France embittered). A French po…
The Brook, by Alfred Tennyson
In Ideal Poems from the English Poets
A collection of twelve poems from English Poets that are known to be the best of their poems. - Summary by Mozartjr
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In Canada and Other Poems
From the author's preface:I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in i…
A New Serial; Harper's Young People; A Liberal Offer for 1880 Only
In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 03, Nov. 18, 1879
Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, sho…
Preferred Position
In Short Science Fiction Collection 081
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
Preface
In Twilight Stories
A collection of broad-ranging, mostly American stories and poems for children by various authors, including Margaret Sidney, Susan Coolidge,…
One Out of Ten
In Short Science Fiction Collection 049
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
Fourth Book: Summary
In The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Pieces In the English Language
Palgrave's principal contribution to the development of literary taste was contained in his Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics (186…
Alphonse Daudet, by Augustin Filon
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 11
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Nancy Knapp
In Spoon River Anthology
This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…
Oxford, May 30, 1820
In A Selection from the Sonnets of William Wordsworth
This is a very impressive collection of some of the best sonnets from the pen of the incomparable William Wordsworth. The appreciation that …
Ascription by Charles G.D. Roberts
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 1)
The fourth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, incl…
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF AUTHORS
In The Book of American Negro Poetry
The Book of American Negro Poetry is one of the earliest and most essential anthologies of African-American verse ever brought to print. Edi…
Pamphlet 1, Part 2
In Great Chicago Fire
In the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Charles Cole Hine provides a detailed account of the disaster that reshaped a city and i…
A Clever Ruse By Warren Miller
In Short Stories from Locomotive Engineers Journal, Volume 52
These short stories are taken from the Locomotive Engineers Journal, Volume 52 which covers the year, 1918. Don't expect any trains -- these…