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Shakespeare at the Globe
One of the most important pieces of Shakespearian scholarship to appear in several years, this brilliant work offers new perspectives on the…
The Lost Despatch
A story constructed with Washington as the central locus, and with the web of circumstance weaving itself around Miss Nancy Newton, a rebel …
The Dancing Silhouette
Following a professional call in the home of an old friend, Dr. Joseph Kane is found dead beneath the window of the room he had occupied. Th…
Twinkle Toes and His Magic Mittens
Another delightful Laura Rountree Smith children's book. Illustrated by F. R. MorganWe are three little kittensWho once lost our mittensThe …
Puppies and kittens and other stories
Four stories about animals, primarily puppies and kittens, doing absolutely adorable and silly things - Summary by James R Hedrick
The Magic Lantern and its Management
There is no optical instrument so well known or so highly held in popular estimation as the Magic Lantern. It is somewhat unfortunate that i…
On Building a Theatre
As people live in a house, Or work, day after day, in a store or factory or public building, they become used to inconveniences, bad arrange…
Piano Tuning
This is a primer for anyone wishing to learn how to tune and maintain their own piano or to become a piano tuner. Written in 1907, it was ta…
James’s Story
James’s Story, written and directed by the acclaimed author David Zane Mairowitz, explores the memories of an Englishman reflecting on a hol…
Norman Corwin: We Hold These Truths
The classic Corwin broadcast, reputedly in the making when Corwin, working on the script while traveling by train, received the news of Pear…
I Am Adam
This is the book of generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him: male and female created he the…
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are in themselves exceedingly brief, less than ten pages of large type in the original. Yet they contain the es…
J. M. Synge and the Ireland of His Time
William Butler Yeats recounts his experiences with friend and colleague, John Millington Synge. - Summary by Kyle James Maclean
The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song
From the Preface: "The contents of this little book formed the subject of three lectures delivered at the Royal Institution "On th…
Religious Affections
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a pre-revolutionary American pastor and academic in Massachusetts, and is also widely considered to be both…
The Life of Anthony
Anthony (251-356CE) lived in Egypt, and became one of the fathers of Christian desert monasticism. When he was about 18 years old, and havin…
St. Francis of Assisi
In this brief but lively biography, G.K. Chesterton brings all his typical wit and insight into discussing Francis of Assisi. Francis is arg…
The Revelation of Baha-ullah
Isabella Matilda Davis Brittingham was a significant early American Bahá'í and was posthumously designated by Shoghi Effendi a…
Talks by Abdul Baha
“Much has already been written of the visit of Abdul Baha, Abbas Effendi, to Europe,” writes Lady Blomfield in her Preface to Paris Talks, “…
The Mysterious Forces of Civilization
The Mysterious Forces of Civilization (Persian: Risálih-i-Madaníyyih) is a work written before 1875 by ‘Abbás Effend&ia…