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The Bridge of San Luis Rey

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Thornton Wilder

The deaths of five people resulting from the collapse of a bridge over a ravine prompts an observer to investigate the lives of the fallen a…

Special Report on Negro Domestic Service in the Seventh Ward Philadelphia

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Isabel Eaton

This paper is an attempt to give the most accurate facts obtainable bearing upon the question of colored domestic service in Philadelphia. (…

Scarlet Sister Mary

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Julia Peterkin

How did 1929 Pulitzer winner and white plantation mistress Julia Peterkin become a favorite of the Harlem Renaissance? According to W.E.B. D…

Practice of Christian and Religious Perfection, Volume 2

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Alphonsus Rodriguez

This is Volume 2 of the extensive 3-volume set written by the renowned Jesuit, Alphonsus Rodriguez. This set will help you to grow in holine…

Part 3, Chapter 20, The Constitution of the State, Part 2

In Social Statics

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Herbert Spencer

Social Statics, or The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed is an 1851 book by the British polymath …

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In The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (version 2)

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James Weldon Johnson

The story of a biracial man living in the deep south after the reconstruction era. He is young and talented. Yet, in order for him to avoid …

The Thunderbolt

In The Boat Club; or, The Bunkers of Rippleton

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William Taylor Adams and Oliver Optic

The Bunkers are a group of rebellious boys who make life miserable for many on the shores of an upstate New York Lake. Captain Sedley's son,…

Chapter VIII. Sir Thomas Mitchell's Four Expeditions

In The Australian Explorers - Their Labours, Perils, and Achievements

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George Grimm

"The Story of the Exploration of Australia is one which we cannot willingly let die. There are many reasons for keeping alive the remem…

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