Essays & Short Works
Hunting Sketches
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Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope describes with his characteristic wit the different types of hunters commonly found in 19th century Britain. - Summary by E…
Death
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Maurice Maeterlinck
"The more we dread it, the more dreadful it becomes..." Death by Maurice Maeterlinck explores the cultural and societal fear of de…
The Souls of the Streets and Other Little Papers
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Arthur Ransome
Acclaimed British author Arthur Ransome presents us with a small collection of charming and wistful sketches on the character of the street,…
Readings from Modern Mexican Authors
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Frederick Starr
Starr visited Mexico in 1894 and became acquainted with a wide array of contemporary writers. This work is a compendium of 29 of those write…
Letters from the West
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James Hall
James Hall was a soldier, lawyer, circuit judge, newspaper editor, historian, and author of fiction. He was also the first publisher of a li…
A Reel of Rainbow
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Frank W. Boreham
Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of edi…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 098
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Various
"The moment a man attempts to tell the truth as he not only thinks but feels it, what he says becomes charged with that man himself.&qu…
The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 3
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W. E. B. Du Bois
The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerci…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 059
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 10 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres. - Summary by schrm
Library Essays; Papers Related to the Work of Public Libraries
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Arthur Elmore Bostwick
This 1920 collection of essays gathers together 25 years of papers, articles, and presentations given by Arthur E. Bostwick. The ideas in ma…
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 6, August 1906
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Various
Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature&qu…
The Booklover and His Books
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Henry Lyman Koopman
This book about books was written by Harry Lyman Koopman, who served as the head librarian for Brown University from 1893 to 1930. Published…
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 7, September 1906
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Various
Mother Earth, an American anarchist journal, was self styled as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature". Mo…
History of a Literary Radical, and Other Essays
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Randolph Silliman Bourne
A posthumous collection of Bourne's writing from publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and early issues of The New Republic, with a long…
Letters to Catherine E. Beecher in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism
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Angelina Emily Grimké
This is a collection of thirteen letters from Angelina Grimké on the subjects of abolitionism and human rights in the United States.
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1953 - 1963)
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John F. Kennedy
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…
España y América
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Antonio Sánchez Moguel
Conjunto magestral de obras literarias e históricas de personajes hispanoparlantes de ambos lados del Atlántico. El autor exam…
The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 7
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Charles Knight
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was published in competition to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which …
The Powder of Sympathy
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Christopher Morley
Another collection of mostly short “soliloquys” from Christopher Morley, an American literary luminary, who introduces them thus: “… these p…