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By: Andrew Lang (1844-1912) | |
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Letters to Dead Authors | |
Custom and Myth
CUSTOM AND MYTHINTRODUCTION.Though some of the essays in this volume have appeared in various serials, the majority of them were written expressly for their present purpose, and they are now arranged in a designed order. During some years of study of Greek, Indian, and savage mythologies, I have become more and more impressed with a sense of the inadequacy of the prevalent method of comparative mythology. That method is based on the belief that myths are the result of a disease of language, as the pearl is the result of a disease of the oyster... | |
By: Andrew McFarland Davis | |
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Indian Games : an historical research |
By: Andrew Y. Wood | |
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Fascinating San Francisco |
By: Angelo S. Rappoport (1871-1950) | |
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History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 10 (of 12) |
By: Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480-525?) | |
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The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy |
By: Anna Alice Chapin (1880-1920) | |
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Greenwich Village |
By: Anna De Koven (1860-) | |
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The Counts of Gruyère |
By: Anna Green Winslow (1759-1779) | |
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Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 |
By: Anna Jameson (1794-1860) | |
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The Diary of an Ennuyée | |
Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical |
By: Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery) Allinson (1871-1932) | |
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Roads from Rome |
By: Anne Harrison Fanshawe (1625-1680?) | |
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Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe |
By: Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (1845-1928) | |
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In Château Land |
By: Anne MacLanahan Grenfell (1885-1938) | |
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Le Petit Nord
A collection of letters from Anne (MacLanahan) Grenfell, future wife of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, regarding her year of missionary service at the orphanage in St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. |
By: Annie E. Keeling | |
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Great Britain and Her Queen |
By: Annie F. Johnston (1863-1931) | |
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The Little Colonel
The scene of this story is laid in Kentucky. Its heroine is a small girl, who is known as the Little Colonel, on account of her fancied resemblance to an old-school Southern gentleman, whose fine estate and old family are famous in the region. (Introduction taken from original book.) |
By: Annie Heloise Abel | |
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The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War |
By: Annie L. Burton (c. 1858-) | |
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Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days
This is a short and simple, yet poignant autobiography of Annie Burton, who recounts her early carefree childhood as a slave on a southern plantation while the Civil War raged around her, and after the Emancipation Proclamation, how her life changed as she struggled to maintain herself and family, manage her finances, and develop as a free person of color. The last half of the narrative relies heavily upon speeches, poems, and hymns written by others that stirred Annie's religious passions and increased her pride in her heritage, including a very powerful speech by Dr... |
By: Annie Lash Jester | |
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Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century |
By: Annie Wood Besant (1847-1933) | |
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The Case for India |
By: Annonymous | |
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The Log-Cabin Lady
'The story of The Log-Cabin Lady is one of the annals of America. It is a moving record of the conquest of self-consciousness and fear through mastery of manners and customs. It has been written by one who has not sacrificed the strength and honesty of her pioneer girlhood, but who added to these qualities that graciousness and charm which have given her distinction on two continents.'(from the introduction) |
By: Anonymous | |
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The Anti-Slavery Alphabet | |
True Stories of Wonderful Deeds
37 short pieces perfect for newer recorders. These one page Stories of (mostly) Wonderful Deeds were written for Little Folk to teach them about famous incidents in their history. Bonnie Prince Charlie, Nelson and Hardy, Bruce and the Spider, David Livingston, Canute, Sir Philip Sydney, and Elizabeth and Raleigh are just some of the well known people and incidents covered in short stories. | |
The Dance (by An Antiquary) Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. | |
Ely Cathedral | |
A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum | |
Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian | |
Bank of the Manhattan Company Chartered 1799: A Progressive Commercial Bank | |
Picturesque Germany First Series | |
With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916—1917 | |
Chatterbox Stories of Natural History | |
Golden Deeds Stories from History | |
The Oaths, Signs, Ceremonies and Objects of the Ku-Klux-Klan. A Full Expose. By A Late Member | |
Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915 | |
A Letter From a Clergyman to his Friend, with an Account of the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver | |
The American Goliah | |
The Moravians in Labrador | |
The Ancient Banner Or, Brief Sketches of Persons and Scenes in the Early History of Friends | |
Is Ulster Right? | |
The Ghost of Chatham; A Vision Dedicated to the House of Peers | |
A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753 | |
St. Clair's Defeat 1791
St. Clair's defeat was a battle fought between the United States and the Western Confederacy of Native Americans on November 4, 1791, during the Northwest Indian War. Out of a US force of roughly 1000 men and officers, only 24 escaped unharmed. It has been cited as the most decisive defeat in the history of the American military and its largest defeat ever by Native Americans. This pamphlet is a compilation of three articles published in 1847, 1851 and 1864. | |
Doctrina Christiana
DOCTRINA CHRISTIANAThe first book printed in the Philippines has been the object of a hunt which has extended from Manila to Berlin, and from Italy to Chile, for four hundred and fifty years. The patient research of scholars, the scraps of evidence found in books and archives, the amazingly accurate hypotheses of bibliographers who have sifted the material so painstakingly gathered together, combine to make its history a bookish detective story par excellence. It is easy when a prisoner has been... |
By: Anonymous, attributed to Kathleen Luard (c.1872) | |
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Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915
The title is, I think, self explanatory. The nurse in question went out to France at the beginning of the war and remained there until May 1915 after the second battle of Ypres when she went back to a Base Hospital and the diary ceases. Although written in diary form, it is clearly taken from letters home and gives a vivid if sometimes distressing picture of the state of the casualties occasioned during that period. After a time at the General Hospital in Le Havre she became one of the three or four sisters working on the ambulance trains which fetched the wounded from the Clearing Hospitals close to the front line and took them back to the General Hospitals in Boulogne, Rouen and Le Havre. |
By: Anthony Hamilton (1646-1720) | |
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Quotes and Images From Memoirs of Count Grammont | |
The Memoirs of Count Grammont |
By: Anthony Hope (1863-1933) | |
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Simon Dale |
By: Anthony Norris Groves (1795-1853) | |
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Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831 |
By: Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) | |
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The Life of Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the turbulent last years of its republican government. Anthony Trollope, best known as a novelist, admired Cicero greatly and wrote this biography late in life in order to argue his virtues against authors who had granted him literary greatness but questioned his strength as a politician and as a man. He takes a personal approach, affording us an insight into his own mind and times as well as those of his subject... | |
North America — Volume 1 | |
La Vendée | |
Clergymen Of The Church Of England
This 1866 book was published in a time of great change in the Church of England. Trollope began as a High Church adherent and then worked his way to a Broad Church stance, a theological liberalism . This book deals with a crisis of faith and a crisis of structural form in the Victorian Church of England. It possesses all the interesting attributes of the novelist’s style. Note on the final chapter: John William Colenso was a British mathematician, theologian, Biblical scholar and social activist, who was the first Church of England Bishop of Natal. His progressive views on biblical criticism and treatment of African natives were controversial. - Summary by David Wales |
By: Antonio de Morga (1559-1636) | |
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History of the Philippine Islands |
By: Antony Bluett | |
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With Our Army in Palestine |
By: Archduke of Austria Ludwig Salvator (1847-1915) | |
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The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria |
By: Archer Butler Hulbert (1873-1933) | |
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The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway |
By: Archibald Forbes (1838-1900) | |
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The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80, Part 1
The First Anglo–Afghan War was fought between British India and Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842. It was one of the first major conflicts during the Great Game, the 19th century competition for power and influence in Central Asia between the United Kingdom and Russia, and also marked one of the worst setbacks inflicted on British power in the region after the consolidation of British Raj by the East India Company. |
By: Archibald Gracie (1858-1912) | |
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Truth about the Titanic
Colonel Archibald Gracie was the first survivor of the sinking of the Titanic to die, and this first-hand account was published posthumously. He attempts to dispel some of the rumors surrounding the tragic event and gives his personal observations and an account of his survival clinging to the hull of an overturned collapsible lifeboat after helping many others to escape safely. A large portion of the book is given to personal accounts of other survivors from both the American and British boards of inquiry, boat by boat. - Summary by Larry Wilson |
By: Archibald H. Sayce (1845-1933) | |
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Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs |
By: Archibald Henderson (1877-1963) | |
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The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 |
By: Archibald Henry Grimké (1849-1930) | |
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William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist |
By: Archibald MacMechan (1862-1933) | |
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Chronicles of Canada Volume 27 - The Winning of Popular Government: A Chronicle of the Union of 1841
In the 1830's, Canada was a ideologically divided country. Political upheaval and even riots occurred over Canada's future. Would it remain a subsidiary of England? Would it form its own republic, or even merge with the United States? This work tells of how some of Canada's founding fathers crossed the bridge between past and future. |
By: Archibald Murray Howe (1848-) | |
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Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold |
By: Aristophanes (446BC - 385BC) | |
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Lysistrata
Lysistrata read by the Classics Drama Company at DePaul. The Classics Drama Company at DePaul is a new gathering of Thespians and Classicists dedicated to performing and understanding ancient literature. If you live in Chicago and attend DePaul University, we welcome new additions to our group. Contact Dr. Kirk Shellko (kshellko@depaul.edu), if interested.First performed in classical Athens c. 411 B.C.E., Aristophanes’ Lysistrata is the original battle of the sexes. One woman, Lysistrata, brings together the women of all Greece, exhorting them to withhold sexual contact from all men in order that they negotiate a treaty... |
By: Arnold Wynne (1880-) | |
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The Growth of English Drama |
By: Arthur Bartlett Maurice (1873-1946) | |
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Fifth Avenue |
By: Arthur D. (Arthur Donald) Innes (-1938) | |
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England under the Tudors |
By: Arthur D. Hall | |
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Cuba Its Past, Present, and Future |
By: Arthur Edward Mainwaring (1864-) | |
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The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland |
By: Arthur F. (Arthur Foley) Winnington Ingram (1858-1946) | |
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The After-glow of a Great Reign Four Addresses Delivered in St. Paul's Cathedral |
By: Arthur F. J. Remy (1871-1954) | |
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The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany |
By: Arthur Gleason (1878-1923) | |
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Young Hilda at the Wars |
By: Arthur Henry Howard Heming (1870-1940) | |
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The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure |
By: Arthur James Lyon Fremantle (1835-1901) | |
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Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 |
By: Arthur Judson Brown (1856-1963) | |
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New Forces in Old China An Inevitable Awakening |
By: Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon (1865-) | |
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The Cornwall Coast |
By: Arthur Léon Imbert de Saint-Amand (1834-1900) | |
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The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X |
By: Arthur Louis Keyser (1856-1924) | |
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From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India |
By: Arthur M. Mann | |
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The Boer in Peace and War |
By: Arthur Poyser | |
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Tower Of London
Description. History. “… those who read this book and have no opportunity of visiting the Tower expect that the characters in the moving drama of its history shall have some semblance of life as they walk across the stage…. My wish has been to persuade those who come to visit the Tower that there is a great deal to be seen in its immediate vicinity… A noble and historic building like the Tower resembles a venerable tree whose roots have spread into the soil in all directions, during the uncounted years of its existence, far beyond the position of its stem.” - Summary by Book Preface and David Wales |
By: Arthur Ransome (1884-1967) | |
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The Crisis in Russia | |
Russia in 1919
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: On August 27, 1914, in London, I made this note in a memorandum book: "Met Arthur Ransome at_____'s; discussed a book on the Russian's relation to the war in the light of psychological background--folklore." The book was not written but the idea that instinctively came to him pervades his every utterance on things Russian. The versatile man who commands more than respect as the biographer of Poe and Wilde; as the (translator of and commentator on Remy de Gourmont; as a folklorist, has shown himself to be consecrated to the truth... |
By: Arthur Ruhl (1876-1935) | |
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Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them |
By: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) | |
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Basis Of Morality
In 1837, the Danish Royal Society of Sciences offered a prize to any essayist who could satisfactorily answer the question, "Is the fountain and basis of Morals to be sought for in an idea of morality which lies directly in the consciousness , and in the analysis of the other leading ethical conceptions which arise from it? Or is it to be found in some other source of knowledge?" The Basis of Morality is the essay submitted in 1840 by German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. In it, he first mercilessly... |
By: Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863-1944) | |
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Adventures in Criticism | |
On The Art of Reading | |
The Blue Pavilions | |
Fort Amity | |
From a Cornish Window A New Edition |
By: Arthur William Knapp (1880-1939) | |
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Cocoa and Chocolate: Their History from Plantation to Consumer
As that heavenly bit of chocolate melts in our mouths, we give little thought as to where it came from, the arduous work that went in to its creation, and the complex process of its maturation from a bean to the delicacy we all enjoy. This “little book” details everything you have ever wanted to know (and some things you never knew you wanted to know) about cocoa and chocolate from how the trees are planted and sustained to which countries produce the most cacao beans. Do cacao beans from various... |
By: Arthur Young (1741-1820) | |
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A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779 |
By: Ashbel Woodward (1804-1885) | |
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Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia |
By: Augusta J. Evans (1835-1909) | |
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At the Mercy of Tiberius |