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Wild Bird Guests

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Ernest Baynes



How to entertain them; with chapters on the destruction of birds, their economic and aesthetic values, suggestions for dealing with their en…

Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport

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Lawrence Perry



Newport, of course, means aristocratic families and naval adventures. In this tale, we wonder if the heiress will actually marry the Russian…

The Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 6

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Max Arthur Macauliffe



This is one of the first (and still one of the few) comprehensive books about the Sikh religion in the English language. Macauliffe had exte…

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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Anatole France



Noted historian sets out to locate and research a rare manuscript: the French version of -- "The Golden Legend" -- and meets the d…

The Mabinogion, Volume 3

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Anonymoustranslated By Charlotte Guest and William James McGlothlin



This is final volume of the Mabinogion. As with the other volumes, these Arthurian tales are translated from Welsh manuscripts and largely r…

The Chronicles of America Volume 10 - Conquest of New France

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George Wrong



The English colonies, holding a great stretch of the Atlantic seaboard, increased in number and power. New France also grew stronger. The st…

The Pilot

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James Fenimore Cooper



The work, which was admired by Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad for its authentic portrayal of a seafaring life and takes place during the …

Cane

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Jean Toomer



Reading this book, I had a vision of a land, heretofore sunk in the mists of muteness, suddenly rising up into the eminence of song. Innume…

The Life of Washington, Volume 1

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John James Marshall



If it be true that it takes a great man to interpret the life of a great man then Bushrod Washington made no mistake in the selection of a b…

The Chronicles of America Volume 11 - Eve of the Revolution

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Carl L. Becker



Here is a look at the evolution of thought and events that led Benjamin Franklin to make this statement: "British subjects, by removing…

The Chronicles of America Volume 12 - Washington and his Comrades in Arms

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George Wrong



This twelfth volume in the Chronicles of America (series) follows the lengthy and difficult war against England for independence as led by G…

Early Greek Philosophy and Other Essays

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Friedrich Nietzsche



The essays contained in this volume treat of various subjects. With the exception of perhaps one we must consider all these papers as fragme…

The Chronicles of America Volume 13 - The Fathers of the Constitution

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Max Farrand



In this next installment of the Chronicles of America, Farrand takes American history from peace treaty, to trade, to confederation, to furt…

Jesus Christ Had Negro Blood in His Veins

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W. L. Hunter



This short work attempts to establish that Jesus had black ancestry dating back to Ham, the son of Noah, who had been made black-skinned as …

The Life of Washington, Volume 2

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John James Marshall



Volume 2 of The Life begins with some early biography, but moves quickly to Washington's military career as a colonel in the battles against…

The Chronicles of America Volume 14 - Washington and His Colleagues

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Henry Jones Ford



This next volume of the Chronicles of American series investigates Washington's development in the day to day world the various dimensions o…

St. Elmo

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Augusta Jane Evans



Written in prose and full of references to religion and mythology, this book tells the love story between St. Elmo and Edna. He is cynical a…

Virginia

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Ellen Glasgow



Virginia does everything right: she attends a finishing school, marries the first man who proposes, and devotes her life to her husband and …

The Birth of Tragedy

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Friedrich Nietzsche



In this famous early work of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he investigates the artistic characteristics of Apollonian (reason) and…

The Chronicles of America Volume 15 - Jefferson and his Colleagues

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Allen Johnson



In this volume, we have the Virginia Dynasty of presidents: Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe. America at this time was involved in expansion w…

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