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The Sea Wolf

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Jack London

The Sea-Wolf is a novel written in 1904 by American author Jack London. An immediate bestseller, the first printing of forty thousand copies…

The Mutiny of the Elsinore

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Jack London

This is the story of a voyage of a sailing ship from Baltimore to Seattle, east-to-west around Cape Horn in the winter. It is set in 1913 an…

The Game

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Jack London

Jack London wrote at least four stories about boxing; A Piece of Steak (1909), The Mexican (1911), The Abysmal Brute (1911), and The Game (1…

The Call of the Wild (Version 2)

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Jack London

This is the story of Buck, dog napped from sunny California to snowy Arctic during the Alaska gold rush. This deservedly famous book has bee…

Nigger of the Narcissus

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Joseph Conrad

This is the story of a voyage of a merchant sailing ship from Bombay to England, set in the very late 19th century. “It was a bad winter off…

A Voyage to the South Sea

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William Bligh

A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the Bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in Hi…

Ch. VI. The Armada Part 3

In Famous Sea Fights

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John R. Hale

I propose to tell in non-technical and popular language the story of some of the most remarkable episodes in the history of sea power. I sha…

At Home and Abroad

In Mozart: The Man and the Artist as Revealed in His Own Words

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Friedrich Kerst

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His name is one of the most recognizable names in history and one of the most enduring of composers. At age 5, this…

Boyhood Days

In Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

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Booker T. Washington

Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War…

The San Francisco of the Past

In The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire

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Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews

The first half of this book describes the devastating earthquake that hit San Francisco in 1906, and the subsequent destruction caused by fi…