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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 089
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Various
"From vocalists you may learn much, but do not believe all that they say." Robert Schumann's Advice to Young Musicians is replete …
A Traveller from Altruria
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William Dean Howells
Set in the early 1890s, at a fashionable summer resort somewhere on the East Coast of the United States, this book tells the story of Mr. T…
Joseph Andrews
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Henry Fielding
"Joseph Andrews ... was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and indeed among the…
William Again
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Richmal Crompton
Fourteen more stories about William Brown. William is a mischievous eleven year old who is puzzled by the adult world, which is no less puzz…
The Hampdenshire Wonder
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J. D. Beresford
By the age of three, Victor Stott's intellectual powers exceed those of any known human. He is the Hampdenshire Wonder, son of an extraordin…
Oxford Book of American Essays
Read by James E. Carson
Various
Collection of 32 essays by American authors ranging from Benjamin Franklin to Emerson to Whitman to Henry James to Theodore Roosevelt. On su…
Remarks
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Bill Nye
"The range of subjects treated in this book is wonderful, even to me. It is a library of universal knowledge, and the facts contained i…
Kipps
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H. G. Wells
Arthur Kipps, an orphaned draper’s assistant of humble means, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money and that is when all his troubles b…
Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen
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Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…
Love and Mr Lewisham
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H. G. Wells
The teaching profession, science and politics in late 19th century England. H. G. Wells’ humorous early novel, drawing on his own life, show…
The Life of Columbus
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Sir Arthur Helps
A factual account of the life of Christopher Columbus, from his early years, through discoveries in the New World, to his death in 1506. - S…
Four Hundred Years of Freethought, Part 1
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Samuel Porter Putnam
This is Samuel Putnam's tour of European literature which began to appear once the globe was circumnavigated and the printing press made boo…
The Professor's House
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Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather
A portrait of Americas many social groups with the chief interest centered on a university professor and his family - Summary by Publishers …
Heroines Every Child Should Know
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Hamilton Wright Mabie
The companion volume to Heroes Every Child Should Know, this volume looks at 13 famous and heroic women from history. - Summary by Lynne Tho…
Opening a Chestnut Burr
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Edward P. Roe
Walter Gregory is a gentleman whose health is broken down by the stress of Wall Street and the consequences of his fast lifestyle. Disillusi…
In the Pecos Country
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Edward S. Ellis
Edward Sylvester Ellis was a major American author during the era of inexpensive fiction of the nineteenth century (dime novels). Because he…
An Excursion to the Lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland, August 1773
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William Hutchinson
In the summer of 1773, lawyer and antiquarian William Hutchinson set out from his home in County Durham on a tour of the English Lake Distri…
The Boy Travellers in Australasia
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Thomas Wallace Knox
ADVENTURES OF TWO YOUTHS IN A JOURNEY TO THE SANDWICH, MARQUESAS, SOCIETY, SAMOAN, AND FEEJEE ISLANDS, AND THROUGH THE COLONIES OF NEW ZEALA…
Judgement and Justice: The Life and Diary of William Godwin
Read by Mark Philp, David O’Shaughnessy and Ellen Sandford O'Neill
Mark Philp, David O’Shaughnessy and Ellen Sandford O'Neill
University of Oxford Podcasts
Biografías breves
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Washington Irving
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Escritor estadounidense. Nació el 3 de abril de 1783 en Nueva York. Cursó estudios de …