Culture & Heritage
The Cliff-Dwellers
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Henry Blake Fuller
Between the former site of old Fort Dearborn and the present site of our newest Board of Trade there lies a restricted yet tumultuous territ…
The Golden Book of Springfield
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Vachel Lindsay
The Golden Book of Springfield is American poet Vachel Lindsay's strange and mystical odyssey through the Springfield, Illinois of 2018, whe…
The Garies and their Friends
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Frank Webb
The book which now appears before the public may be of interest in relation to a question which the late agitation of the subject of slavery…
Short Stories in Prose and Verse
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Henry Lawson
Short Stories in Prose and Verse” is Henry Lawson’s first published book (1894); his first published poem appeared in 1887. The volume is a …
Black Tales for White Children
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Nancy Stigand and Chauncey Hugh Stigand
Chauncey Hugh Stigand wrote this book of 29 East African folktales together with his wife, Nancy Stigand. Stigard was an officer in the Brit…
Old Santeclaus
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Clement Clarke Moore
Clement Clarke Moore (July 15, 1779 – July 10, 1863) was an American Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature, as well as Divinity and Bib…
Innocencia: a story of the prairie regions of Brazil
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Alfredo D'Escragnolle Taunay
The story of Innocencia, an 18-year-old girl who lives in the prairies of Brazil, is a twist on the traditional love triangle. The plot has …
Deirdre
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James Stephens
Beautiful, playful young Deirdre, caught in the crosshairs of Ireland's wily, chauvinistic King Conachur, who desires to marry her after his…
Shan Folk Lore Stories from the Hill and Water Country
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William Charles Griggs
The following stories have been taken from the great[v] mass of unwritten lore that is to the black-eyed, brown-skinned boys and girls of th…
Der Hungerpastor
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Wilhelm Raabe
Der Hungerpastor von Wilhelm Raabe erzählt die Geschichte des Schuhmachersohns und späteren Pfarrers Hans Unwirrsch, der aus einfa…
Balloons
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Elizabeth Bibesco
Elizabeth, Princess Bibesco, was an English writer and socialite. The daughter of a British Prime Minister and the wife of a Romanian aristo…
Yellow Butterflies
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Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
The title of this historical fiction could as well have been "A Soldier’s Mother" or “An Unknown Soldier”. There are indeed butter…
The Flame Tree and Other Folk-Lore Stories from Uganda
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Rosetta Baskerville
Rosetta Baskerville was the wife of George Baskerville, a missionary in Uganda. Some of the folktales in this book, published in 1925, are s…
Oliver Twist Band 3
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Charles Dickens
Titelheld Oliver Twist startet in dem zweiten Roman von Charles Dickens, damals seinen Leserinnen und Lesern auch unter seinem Pseudonym „Bo…
Ikom Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria
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Elphinstone Dayrell
Elphinstone Daryell [1869-1917] was a British colonial administrator in southern Nigeria who had an interest in anthropology and folklore. T…
Oliver Twist Band 2
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Charles Dickens
Titelheld Oliver Twist startet in dem zweiten Roman von Charles Dickens, damals seinen Leserinnen und Lesern auch unter seinem Pseudonym „Bo…
Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales
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Robert Hamill Nassau
Robert Nassau spent four decades as a medical missionary in Africa, arriving at Corisco Island, now part of Equatorial Guinea, in 1861; he a…
Nicholas Nickelby Band 3
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Charles Dickens
Der junge Nikolas Nickleby muss sich Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts in England durch den Verlust seines Vaters plötzlich in einer gefä…