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By: Henriette McDougall (1817-1886) | |
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Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak |
By: Henry A. Beers | |
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A Brief History of English and American Literature
Henry Augustin Beers (1847-?), native of Buffalo, NY and professor of English at Yale, with the help of John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Methodist bishop and first Chancellor of American University, has written a sweeping thousand 900 year history of English literature, up to the end of the 19th century. Although at times biased and sometimes misguided (as when he dismisses Mark Twain as a humorist noteworthy in his time but not for the ages), his research is sound and his criticism is interesting and quite often very balanced... |
By: Henry Adams (1838-1918) | |
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The Education of Henry Adams | |
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres |
By: Henry Baerlein (1875-1960) | |
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The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 |
By: Henry Bascom Smith (-1916) | |
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Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After |
By: Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838-1917) | |
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Literary Blunders |
By: Henry Beston (1888-1968) | |
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A Volunteer Poilu | |
Full Speed Ahead: Tales From The Log Of A Correspondent
“These tales are memories of several months spent as a special correspondent attached to the forces of the American Navy on foreign service…. [I have] been content to chronicle the interesting incidents of the daily life as well as the achievements and heroisms of the friends who keep the highways of the sea…. I would not end without a word of thanks to the enlisted men for their unfailing good will and ever courteous behaviour.” Henry Beston was an American author. In 1918, Beston became a press representative for the U... |
By: Henry Bibb (1815-1854) | |
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave
Henry Walton Bibb was born a slave. His father was white although his identity was not positively known. Bibb was separated from his mother at a very young age and hired out to other slave owners for most of his childhood. Always yearning for his freedom, he made his first escape from slavery in 1842. He was recaptured and escaped, recaptured and escaped over and over; but he never gave up on his desire to be a man in control of his own destiny. |
By: Henry Blackburn (1830-1897) | |
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Normandy Picturesque |
By: Henry Blake Fuller (1857-1929) | |
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Cliff-Dwellers
Between the former site of old Fort Dearborn and the present site of our newest Board of Trade there lies a restricted yet tumultuous territory through which, during the course of the last fifty years, the rushing streams of commerce have worn many a deep and rugged chasm. These great canons—conduits, in fact, for the leaping volume of an ever-increasing prosperity—cross each other with a sort of systematic rectangularity, and in deference to the practical directness of local requirements they are in general called simply—streets... |
By: Henry Bordeaux (1870-1963) | |
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Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air |
By: Henry Brooke (1703?-1783) | |
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An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland |
By: Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) | |
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Education of Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp critique of 19th century educational theory and practice. In 1907, Adams began privately circulating copies of a limited edition printed at his own expense. Commercial publication had to await its author's 1918 death, whereupon it won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. (Introduction by Wikipedia) |
By: Henry C. (Henry Charles) Shelley | |
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Inns and Taverns of Old London |
By: Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) | |
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Hero Tales from American History
Its purpose … is to tell in simple fashion the story of some Americans who showed that they knew how to live and how to die; who proved their truth by their endeavor; and who joined to the stern and manly qualities which are essential to the well-being of a masterful race the virtues of gentleness, of patriotism, and of lofty adherence to an ideal. It is a good thing for all Americans … to remember the men who have given their lives in war and peace to the service of their fellow-countrymen, and to keep in mind the feats of daring and personal prowess done in time past by some of the many champions of the nation in the various crises of her history. |
By: Henry Cadwallader Adams (1817-1899) | |
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Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand
A young man travels to South Africa to find his Mother and sister. He wants to be a clergyman and a farmer when he arrives there. This story includes accounts of the Zulu-Boer wars. - Summary by Ingrid Kennedy |
By: Henry Charles Lahee (1856-1953) | |
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Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events |
By: Henry Charles Lea (1825-1909) | |
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History of the Inquisition of Spain
The first volume of Lea’s monumental work on the Inquisition of Spain, covering its origin and establishment and its relations with the state. Also included are appendices listing Tribunals, Inquisitors-General, and Spanish coinage. | |
History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 3
The 3rd volume of Lea's monumental work on the Spanish Inquisition. This volume covers torture practices; the trial process; punishments; Jews, Moriscos, and Protestants; and censorship. - Summary by Sienna | |
History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 4
The fourth and final volume of Lea's monumental work on the Spanish Inquisition. This volume discusses how the Inquisition dealt with mysticism, solicitation of illicit relationships, bigamy, theological propositions, witchcraft and sorcery, political activity, and almost every other facet of daily life. It concludes with an overarching history of the Inquisition and retrospective. |
By: Henry Cowling (1874-1945) | |
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From Lower Deck to Pulpit |
By: Henry Craik (1846-1927) | |
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Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 |
By: Henry Cruse Murphy (1810-1882) | |
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The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America |
By: Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) | |
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Walden
Two years, two months and two days! This is what forms the time line of one man's quest for the simple life and a unique social experiment in complete self reliance and independence. Henry David Thoreau published Walden in 1884. Originally drafted as a series of essays describing a most significant episode in his life, it was finally released in book form with each essay taking on the form of a separate chapter. Thoreau's parents were in financial straights, but rich intellectually and culturally... | |
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers | |
A Plea for Captain John Brown | |
Service
An essay in three parts written in July 1840. "Human life is his topic, and he views it with an Oriental scope of thought, in which distinctions of Time and Space are lost in the wide prospect of Eternity and Immortality." - Summary by Fritz |
By: Henry E. (Henry Edwin) Baker (1859-) | |
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The Colored Inventor A Record of Fifty Years |
By: Henry Esmond Christman (1906-1980) | |
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Tin Horns and Calico
In the early 19th century, in the Hudson Valley of New York State, hundreds of square miles of land were still the feudal domains of large landowners known as patroons. Such families as the Van Rensselaers, Livingstons, and Schuylers owned the farms and towns in which hundreds of thousands of ordinary people lived and worked. Even the capitol city of New York State, Albany, was encompassed in the private fiefdom of a patroon. On July 4, 1839, in the mountain town of Berne, New York, a mass meeting... |
By: Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan (1850-) | |
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The Iron Game A Tale of the War |
By: Henry Festing Jones (1851-1928) | |
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Diversions in Sicily
Samuel Butler's biographer dedicates his urbane account of the culture and entertainments of rural Sicily to the unborn son of his guide to them. | |
Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions |
By: Henry Fisk Carlton | |
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Washington Crossing the Delaware | |
The Story of Nathan Hale |
By: Henry G. Nicholls (1825-1867) | |
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The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account | |
Iron Making in the Olden Times as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of Dean |
By: Henry Goudemetz (1749-1826?) | |
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Historical Epochs of the French Revolution With The Judgment And Execution Of Louis XVI. |
By: Henry H. S. Pearse (1844-1905) | |
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Four Months Besieged The Story of Ladysmith |
By: Henry Handel Richardson (1870-1946) | |
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Australia Felix
The story of Richard Mahony, a doctor trained in Edinburgh who comes to Ballarat in the gold rush of the 1850s. At first he runs a shop but later he marries and returns to medical practice. His story is interwoven with that of his wife’s brothers and sister. Even after his medical practice becomes successful he is still unhappy living in the colony and decides to return home to Britain. Richard is a restless irritable man whose character is said to be based on the author’s own father. This book is the first of the trilogy ‘The Fortunes of Richard Mahony’, but stands well on its own... |
By: Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882) | |
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Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life And Also Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America |
By: Henry Inman (1837-1899) | |
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The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway | |
Tales Of The Trail; Short Stories Of Western Life
This 1898 collection of thirteen previously published articles exhibits the acute perception of one of the most popular writers of the late 19th-early 20th centuries. “These "Tales of the Trail" are based upon actual facts which came under the personal observation of the author… and will form another interesting series of stories of that era of great adventures, when the country west of the Missouri was unknown except to the trappers, hunters, and army officers.” Henry Inman was an American soldier, frontiersman, and author... |
By: Henry James (1843-1916) | |
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A Little Tour of France | |
Outcry
The story concerns the contemplated sale of a famous painting by a proud but relatively cash-strapped British aristocrat to a wealthy American art collector who is bent on buying up treasured masterpieces from the Old World, and the patriotic outcry after the public gets wind of his intent. The matter is further complicated by the strong resistance put up by his younger daughter and her blunt-spoken, art critic friend against the sale. - Summary by shih-ping |
By: Henry Jenner (1848-1934) | |
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A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature |
By: Henry Jones Ford (1851-1925) | |
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The Cleveland Era; a chronicle of the new order in politics |
By: Henry Ketcham | |
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln |
By: Henry L. Mencken (1880-1956) | |
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A Book of Prefaces |
By: Henry L. Williams | |
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The Lincoln Story Book
The Abraham Lincoln Statue at Chicago is accepted as the typical Westerner of the forum, the rostrum, and the tribune, as he stood to be inaugurated under the war-cloud in 1861. But there is another Lincoln as dear to the common people–the Lincoln of happy quotations, the speaker of household words. Instead of the erect, impressive, penetrative platform orator we see a long, gaunt figure, divided between two chairs for comfort, the head bent forward, smiling broadly, the lips curved in laughter, the deep eyes irradiating their caves of wisdom; the story-telling Lincoln, enjoying the enjoyment he gave to others. (from the preface of the book) |
By: Henry Labouchere (1831-1912) | |
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Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris |
By: Henry Lawson (1867-1922) | |
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Short Stories in Prose and Verse
Short Stories in Prose and Verse” is Henry Lawson’s first published book ; his first published poem appeared in 1887. The volume is a snapshot of his writing style up to the start of his career. His first published poem appeared at age 20, his first published book at age 27. This volume is a good sample of Henry Lawson’s poetry and prose and makes a good stepping-stone towards the enjoyment of his later works. Summary by Chris Greaves | |
Scots Of The Riverina
This poem tells the story of a boy in Australia who leaves the farm at harvest time. "and to run from home was a crime." The story is set in the Riverina, New South Wales in the town of Gundagai. |
By: Henry M. Field (1822-1907) | |
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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
Cyrus W. Field had a dream: to link the Old World of Britain and Europe to that of the New World of North America by a telegraph cable stretching across the great Atlantic Ocean. It took him thirteen years, a lot of money, and many men and ships and cable to make it happen. He wanted to bring the world together and make it a smaller place; to forge alliances and achieve peace. This is his story. (Introduction by Alex C. Telander) |
By: Henry MacMahon | |
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Orphans of the Storm |
By: Henry Mann (1848-1915) | |
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The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country |
By: Henry Martyn Baird (1832-1906) | |
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History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 |
By: Henry Martyn Cist (1839-1902) | |
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The Army of the Cumberland |
By: Henry Mayhew (1812-1887) | |
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London Labour and the London Poor Volume I
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work." "The history of a people from the lips of the people themselves .. their labour, earnings, trials and sufferings, in their own unvarnished language, and to pourtray the condition of their homes and their families by personal observation of the places ..." "My earnest hope is that the book may serve to give the rich a more intimate knowledge of the sufferings, and the frequent heroism under those sufferings, of the poor ... | |
London Labour and the London Poor Volume II
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work." "The history of a people from the lips of the people themselves .. their labour, earnings, trials and sufferings, in their own unvarnished language, and to pourtray the condition of their homes and their families by personal observation of the places ..." "My earnest hope is that the book may serve to give the rich a more intimate knowledge of the sufferings, and the frequent heroism under those sufferings, of the poor ... | |
London Labour and the London Poor Volume III
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work." "The history of a people from the lips of the people themselves .. their labour, earnings, trials and sufferings, in their own unvarnished language, and to portray the condition of their homes and their families by personal observation of the places ..." "My earnest hope is that the book may serve to give the rich a more intimate knowledge of the sufferings, and the frequent heroism under those sufferings, of the poor ... |
By: Henry Morford (1823-1881) | |
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Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 |
By: Henry Morgenthau (1856-1946) | |
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Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important primary historical resource for the study of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the Armenian Genocide. During this genocide, approximately 1,500,000 Armenians living in Anatolia were murdered in an attempt to rid Turkey of its non-Turkish populations. Mr. Morgenthau left Turkey a frustrated man, having done all that he was able through diplomatic circles to halt the murders, to no avail... |
By: Henry Ossian Flipper (1856-1940) | |
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The Colored Cadet at West Point
Henry Ossian Flipper--born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856--did not learn to read and write until just before the end of the Civil War. Once the war had ended, Flipper attended several schools showing a great aptitude for knowledge. During his freshman year at Atlanta University he applied for admittance to the United States National Military Academy at West Point. He was appointed to the academy in 1873 along with a fellow African American, John W. Williams. Cadet Williams was later dismissed for academic deficiencies. |
By: Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones (1896-1917) | |
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War Letters of a Public-School Boy |
By: Henry Pearson [Editor] Gratton | |
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As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home |
By: Henry Pepwell (-1540) | |
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The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 |
By: Henry Peterson (1818-1891) | |
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Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem
Dulcibel is a young, pretty and kind-hearted fictional character charged with Witchcraft during the infamous Salem Witch trials. During this time there is a group of "afflicted girls" who accuse Dulcibel and many others of Witchcraft, and during their trials show "undoubtable" proof that these people really are Witches. Will Master Raymond, Dulcibel's lover, be able to to secure Dulcibel's release from jail? Or will Dulcibel's fate be the gallows like so many other accused Witches of her time? |
By: Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) | |
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Pearl Maiden
This is the story of Miriam, an orphan Christian woman living in Rome in the first century. She falls in love with a Roman officer, but knows that her Jewish childhood playmate loves her too and will do anything in order to get her love in return. | |
Cleopatra | |
The Lady of Blossholme | |
Swallow: a tale of the great trek | |
Moon of Israel | |
Red Eve | |
Morning Star |
By: Henry Robert Plomer (1856-1928) | |
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A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 |
By: Henry Salt (1851-1939) | |
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Life of Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was a fascinating man, contributing vast amounts of information on nature history, leading the way for environmentalism. He also was a philosopher, abolitionist, anarchist, writer, poet, and a bit of a mystery. He is best known for his book 'Walden', and his essay on 'Civil Disobedience'. This early biography by Henry Salt is highly regarded by Thoreau scholars. - Summary by Phyllis Vincelli |
By: Henry Seton Merriman (1862-1903) | |
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Dross |
By: Henry Smith Williams (1863-1943) | |
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A History of Science |
By: Henry St. John Bolingbroke (1678-1751) | |
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Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope |
By: Henry Stevens (1819-1886) | |
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Thomas Hariot, the Mathematician, the Philosopher and the Scholar |
By: Henry Sumner Maine (1822-1888) | |
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Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society |
By: Henry Theophilus Finck (1854-1926) | |
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Chopin and Other Musical Essays |
By: Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) | |
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Fighting For Peace | |
Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit |
By: Henry W. (Henry William) Fischer (1856-1932) | |
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Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess |
By: Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) | |
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The Naturalist on the River Amazons |
By: Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) | |
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Conflict of Northern and Southern Theories of Man and Society Great Speech, Delivered in New York City |
By: Henry Watson Wilbur (1851-1914) | |
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President Lincoln's Attitude Towards Slavery and Emancipation
A review of events prior to, during and following the American Civil War bringing an insightful perspective on Lincoln's true attitude toward slavery and emancipation. |