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Prayers and Meditations

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Samuel Johnson


The prayers and meditations of Samuel Johnson, published posthumously by George Strahan to whom Johnson had entrusted the manuscripts. Johns…

A Study in Scarlet (Version 8)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


This exciting story is the first of the Sherlock Holmes detective novels and stories and the beginning of the famed duo with Dr. Watson who …

The Lost Art of Reading

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Gerald Stanley Lee


Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…

The Measurement of Intelligence

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Lewis Terman


An explanation of and a completed guide for the use of the Stanford revision and the Simon Binford intelligence test - Summary by the solois…

The Science Of Being Great (Version 2)

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Wallace D. Wattles


The 3rd and final book in Wallace D. Wattles' "The Science of.." trilogy. Wattles offers this work as a practical guide to achieve…

A Body of Practical Divinity

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Thomas Watson


Mr. Watson published a variety of books upon practical subjects, and of a useful nature. But his principal work was his Body of Divinity in …

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102

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Various


"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…

The Bee People

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Margaret Warner Morley


"The Honey-bees are buzzy-fuzzy little pepper pots" Thus this wonderful nature writer begins to tell us about bees, their habits, …

Advance Agent

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Christopher Anvil


Raveling Porcy's systematized enigma, Dan found himself with a spy's worst break—he was saddled with the guise of a famed man! A masterful s…

Peter Bell: A Tale

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William Wordsworth


A ne'er-do-well's life is changed by an encounter with a stubborn animal. - Summary by Matthew Schneider

Notes on Life and Letters

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Joseph Conrad


Conrad described the twenty-six essays collected here as a "one-man show" comprising "Conrad literary, Conrad political, Conr…

The Explorer

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W. Somerset Maugham


An early novel by W. Somerset Maugham about conflicting feelings of self-integrity, filial love, romantic love. Lucy Allerton and Alec MacKe…

Christopher Cricket on Cats

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Anthony Henderson Euwer


Humorous---and insightful---commentary on cats in prose and poetry. - Summary by KevinS

Reading: An Essay

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Hugh Walpole


A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales

Lost Leaders

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Andrew Lang


Andrew Lang, best beloved for his series of fairy books, has collected here essays on wide ranging topics from golf and shaving to Thackeray…

Within The Tides

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Joseph Conrad


A self-important English philosopher and his haughty, beautiful daughter sail to the South Pacific in hope of locating the daughter's wrongl…

The Nature of a Crime

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Joseph Conrad


The first of three collaborations between Conrad and Ford. On the verge of being found out in a matter of breach of fiduciary trust and fina…

A First Spanish Reader

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A First Spanish Reader


The Good Dog Book

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John Hay Beith, John Brown, Barry Cornwall, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, Henry Herbert Knibbs, John Muir, Ouida, William Robert Spencer, Eva March Tappan and J. T. Trowbridge


A collection of adult stories and poems - sad, humorous, and adventurous - about Man's Best Friend. NOTE: Most of these selections contain v…

My First Book (Version 2)

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Various


Have you ever wondered how your favorite author started on his or her writing career? Did they launch themselves wholeheartedly into literat…

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