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Post Mortem: Essays, Historical And Medical

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Charles MacLaurin and Charles Maclaurin


This 1922 collection of extensive essays comprises well written biographies of a few famous folk. The life narratives include analyses of me…

Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania

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Frederick Herman Tilberg


On the gently rolling farm lands surrounding the little town of Gettysburg, Pa., was fought one of the great decisive battles of American hi…

Life In California, Excerpted From 'Roughing It' By Mark Twain

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Mark Twain


This recording is chapters 56 through 61 plus 78 of the 1879 edition of 'Roughing It' by Mark Twain (1835-1910). The chapters contain in Tw…

Silly Verses: Selections From Shores, Carroll, Lear, and Gilbert

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Lewis Carroll, W. S. Gilbert, Edward Lear and Robert J. Shores


Silly and fun verses beginning with the lesser known Robert J. Shores and going on to the more known Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, and W.S. Gi…

Lincoln's Yarns and Stories

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Alexander K. Mcclure


“A Complete Collection of the Funny and Witty Anecdotes that made Abraham Lincoln Famous as America’s Greatest Story Teller With Introductio…

Wongo And The Wise Old Crow

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Grace Moon


Stories of an Indian boy and his friends told by a children’s author of yesteryear, published 1923. - Summary by david wales

The Pinafore Picture Book: The Story Of H.M.S. Pinafore (Version 2)

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W. S. Gilbert


Pinafore’s sublimely silly story is made even sillier by this (ostensibly for children) 1908 story version of the 1878 Gilbert and Sullivan …

A Christmas Miscellany 2022

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Various


Seven stories, chapters, essays, or poetry about Christmas or around Christmas. - Summary by david wales

A Christmas Miscellany 2021

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Various


Seven chapters involving Christmas from different books. Plus part 8 which is twelve verses about Christmas and part 9 which is four Christm…

Winnowed Wisdom

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Stephen Leacock


This 1926 volume comprises thirty-five essays by the masterful Canadian humorist. - Summary by david wales

Commentary on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians

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John Calvin


If ever there was a time when the consolations derived from religious instruction were necessary, what other resource is left to the most he…

Cupid's Cyclopedia

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Oliver Herford


This 1910 short work is by the English-born American humorist, satirist, and illustrator Oliver Herford, aided by another caricaturist and i…

Commentary on the Epistle to the Philippians

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John Calvin


That the Expository Treatises of Calvin on Paul's Epistles should be considered by the most eminent critics to be peculiarly successful is t…

Ronald And I; Or Studies From Life

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Alfred Pretor


This is a collection of essays (1899) on English village life in the late nineteenth century. The essay “My Rector” was the focus of some co…

Robert Louis Stevenson

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G. K. Chesterton


This short early twentieth century biography of Robert Louis Stevenson by polymath Chesterton and journalist Nicoll is also sometimes entitl…

Commentary on the Epistle to the Colossians

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John Calvin


Accordingly, not long after this Epistle was written, three Churches of great renown perished by a mournful as well as horrible occurrence—a…

My Religion

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Arnold Bennett, J. D. Beresford, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Arthur Jones, Compton Mackenzie, E. Phillips Oppenheim, H. De Vere Stacpoole, Hugh Walpole, Rebecca West and Israel Zangwill


This 1926 collection of sixteen essays on religion by well-known people (mostly authors) in the early 20th century brings together articles …

The Christmas Bishop

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Winifred M. Kirkland


This 1913 story is far more than a Christmas tale. It is a story about spiritual wisdom; the seeking of wisdom, the getting of wisdom, even…

Sir Christopher Wren: Scientist, Scholar and Architect

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Lawrence Weaver


This 1923 monograph on the life and work of Sir Christopher Wren was written by Lawrence Weaver, an English architectural writer and editor.…

Post Mortems Two: Mere Mortals: Medico-Historical Essays

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Charles Maclaurin


This 1925 collection of extensive essays (a second book following the first of similar title) comprises well written biographies of a few fa…

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