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By: Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

Book cover Oxford
Book cover Letters to Dead Authors
Custom and Myth by Andrew Lang 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

Book cover Indian Games : an historical research

By: Andrew Y. Wood

Book cover Fascinating San Francisco

By: Angelo S. Rappoport (1871-1950)

Book cover History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 10 (of 12)

By: Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480-525?)

Book cover The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy

By: Anna Alice Chapin (1880-1920)

Book cover Greenwich Village

By: Anna De Koven (1860-)

Book cover The Counts of Gruyère

By: Anna Green Winslow (1759-1779)

Book cover Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771

By: Anna Jameson (1794-1860)

Book cover The Diary of an Ennuyée
Book cover Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical

By: Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery) Allinson (1871-1932)

Book cover Roads from Rome

By: Anne Harrison Fanshawe (1625-1680?)

Book cover Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe

By: Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (1845-1928)

Book cover In Château Land

By: Anne MacLanahan Grenfell (1885-1938)

Le Petit Nord by Anne MacLanahan Grenfell 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

Book cover Great Britain and Her Queen

By: Annie F. Johnston (1863-1931)

The Little Colonel by Annie F. Johnston 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

Book cover The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War

By: Annie L. Burton (c. 1858-)

Book cover 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

Book cover Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century

By: Annie Wood Besant (1847-1933)

Book cover The Case for India

By: Annonymous

The Log-Cabin Lady by Annonymous 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

Book cover The Anti-Slavery Alphabet
True Stories of Wonderful Deeds by Anonymous 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.

Book cover The Dance (by An Antiquary) Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D.
Book cover Ely Cathedral
Book cover 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
Book cover Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian
Book cover Bank of the Manhattan Company Chartered 1799: A Progressive Commercial Bank
Book cover Picturesque Germany First Series
Book cover With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916—1917
Book cover Chatterbox Stories of Natural History
Book cover Golden Deeds Stories from History
Book cover The Oaths, Signs, Ceremonies and Objects of the Ku-Klux-Klan. A Full Expose. By A Late Member
Book cover Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915
Book cover A Letter From a Clergyman to his Friend, with an Account of the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver
Book cover The American Goliah
Book cover The Moravians in Labrador
Book cover The Ancient Banner Or, Brief Sketches of Persons and Scenes in the Early History of Friends
Book cover Is Ulster Right?
Book cover The Ghost of Chatham; A Vision Dedicated to the House of Peers
Book cover 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
Book cover 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 by Anonymous 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)

Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915 by Anonymous, attributed to Kathleen Luard 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)

Book cover Quotes and Images From Memoirs of Count Grammont
Book cover The Memoirs of Count Grammont

By: Anthony Hope (1863-1933)

Book cover Simon Dale

By: Anthony Norris Groves (1795-1853)

Book cover Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831

By: Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)

The Life of Cicero by Anthony Trollope 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...

Book cover North America — Volume 1
Book cover La Vendée
Book cover 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)

Book cover History of the Philippine Islands

By: Antony Bluett

Book cover With Our Army in Palestine

By: Archduke of Austria Ludwig Salvator (1847-1915)

Book cover The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria

By: Archer Butler Hulbert (1873-1933)

Book cover The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway

By: Archibald Forbes (1838-1900)

The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80, Part 1 by Archibald Forbes 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)

Book cover 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)

Book cover Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs

By: Archibald Henderson (1877-1963)

Book cover 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)

Book cover William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist

By: Archibald MacMechan (1862-1933)

Book cover 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-)

Book cover Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold

By: Aristophanes (446BC - 385BC)

Lysistrata by Aristophanes 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 Henry Savage Landor (1865-1924)

Book cover Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland
Book cover Across Unknown South America
Book cover In the Forbidden Land An account of a journey in Tibet, capture by the Tibetan authorities, imprisonment, torture and ultimate release
Book cover Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm
Book cover An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet

By: Arnold Wynne (1880-)

Book cover The Growth of English Drama

By: Arthur Bartlett Maurice (1873-1946)

Book cover Fifth Avenue

By: Arthur D. (Arthur Donald) Innes (-1938)

Book cover England under the Tudors

By: Arthur D. Hall

Cuba Its Past, Present, and Future by Arthur D. Hall Cuba Its Past, Present, and Future

By: Arthur Edward Mainwaring (1864-)

Book cover 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)

Book cover The After-glow of a Great Reign Four Addresses Delivered in St. Paul's Cathedral

By: Arthur F. J. Remy (1871-1954)

Book cover The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany

By: Arthur Gleason (1878-1923)

Book cover Young Hilda at the Wars

By: Arthur Henry Howard Heming (1870-1940)

Book cover The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure

By: Arthur James Lyon Fremantle (1835-1901)

Book cover Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863

By: Arthur Judson Brown (1856-1963)

Book cover New Forces in Old China An Inevitable Awakening

By: Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon (1865-)

Book cover The Cornwall Coast

By: Arthur Léon Imbert de Saint-Amand (1834-1900)

Book cover The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X

By: Arthur Louis Keyser (1856-1924)

Book cover From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India

By: Arthur M. Mann

Book cover The Boer in Peace and War

By: Arthur Poyser

Book cover 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)

Book cover The Crisis in Russia
Book cover 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)

Book cover Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them

By: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

Book cover 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)

Book cover Adventures in Criticism
Book cover On The Art of Reading
Book cover The Blue Pavilions
Book cover Fort Amity
Book cover From a Cornish Window A New Edition

By: Arthur William Knapp (1880-1939)

Cocoa and Chocolate: Their History from Plantation to Consumer by Arthur William Knapp 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)

Book cover A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779

By: Ashbel Woodward (1804-1885)

Book cover Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia

By: Augusta J. Evans (1835-1909)

Book cover At the Mercy of Tiberius

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