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By: Edward Ellis Morris (1843-1901)

Book cover Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages

By: Giles Du Wés (-1535)

Book cover An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly

By: Walter John Clark

Book cover International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar

By: Kagemna

The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep and the Instruction of Ke'Gemni The Oldest Books in the World by Kagemna The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep and the Instruction of Ke'Gemni The Oldest Books in the World

By: John Sargeaunt (1857-1922)

Book cover Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin

By: Alexander Stewart (1764-1821)

Book cover Elements of Gaelic Grammar

By: Isabel Florence Hapgood (1850-1928)

Book cover A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections

By: Sudraka

Book cover The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika

By: Edward Kennard Rand (1871-1945)

Book cover A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York

By: Donald Lemen Clark (1888-1966)

Book cover Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism

By: Christian Brothers

Book cover De La Salle Fifth Reader

By: Katherine Chandler

Book cover The Bird-Woman of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

By: John Summerfield

Book cover Sketch of Grammar of the Chippeway Languages To Which is Added a Vocabulary of some of the Most Common Words

By: Elmer W. (Elmer Warren) Cavins (1864-)

Book cover Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois

By: Standish O'Grady (1846-1928)

Book cover Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.
Book cover The Coming of Cuculain

By: Jessie Duncan [Translator] Westbrook

Book cover Hindustani Lyrics

By: Nahum Slouschz (1872-1966)

Book cover The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)

By: John Andrew (1815-1875)

Book cover The Fireside Picture Alphabet or Humour and Droll Moral Tales; or Words & their Meanings Illustrated

By: F. F. Arbuthnot (1833-1901)

Book cover Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature

By: Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595-1640)

Book cover The Odes of Casimire, Translated by G. Hils

By: Charles Alfred Downer (1866-1930)

Book cover Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence

By: Frederic Kidder (1804-1885)

Book cover The Abenaki Indians Their Treaties of 1713 & 1717, and a Vocabulary

By: W. F. (William Franklin) Webster (1862-1936)

Book cover English: Composition and Literature

By: Roger Ascham (1515-1568)

Book cover The Schoolmaster

By: Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868)

Book cover Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems

By: Hans Ostwald (1873-1940)

Book cover Maxim Gorki

By: William Tuckwell (1829-1919)

Book cover Horace

By: Ida C. (Ida Catherine) Bender (1857-1916)

Book cover Eighth Reader

By: Dandin (6th Century)

Book cover Twenty Two Goblins

These 22 stories are told by the Goblin to the King Vikram. King Vikram faces many difficulties in bringing the vetala to the tantric. Each time Vikram tries to capture the vetala, it tells a story that ends with a riddle. If Vikram cannot answer the question correctly, the vampire consents to remain in captivity. If the king answers the question correctly, the vampire would escape and return to his tree. In some variations, the king is required to speak if he knows the answer, else his head will burst...

By: Richard Green Parker (1798-1869)

Book cover Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C.

By: Horace Elisha Scudder (1838-1902)

Book cover Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading Selected from English and American Literature

By: Ellis Wynne (1671-1734)

Book cover The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell

By: Paull F. (Paull Franklin) Baum (1886-1964)

Book cover The Principles of English Versification

By: André Dacier (1651-1722)

Book cover The Preface to Aristotle's Art of Poetry

By: Susan Paxson

Book cover A Handbook for Latin Clubs

By: William Barnes (1801-1886)

Book cover Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect

By: Gilbert Sykes Blakely

Book cover Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College

By: Arthur Herbert Leahy (1857-1928)

Book cover Heroic Romances of Ireland

By: John Wilson Ross (1818-1887)

Book cover Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century

By: W. Lucas (William Lucas) Collins (1817-1887)

Book cover Cicero Ancient Classics for English Readers

By: Grant Showerman (1870-1935)

Book cover Horace and His Influence

By: Joseph O'Brien

Book cover The Devil A Tragedy of the Heart and Conscience

By: P. (Patrick) Power (1862-1951)

Book cover The Life of St. Declan of Ardmore

By: Andrew J. Blackbird (1810-)

Book cover History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan A Grammar of Their Language, and Personal and Family History of the Author

By: Tingfang Wu (1842-1922)

Book cover America, through the spectacles of an Oriental diplomat

By: William Gates (1863-1940)

Book cover Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs

By: Richard Rainolde (-1606)

Book cover A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde

By: Aletta E. Marty

Book cover The Ontario High School Reader

By: Wadham Pigott Williams (1822?-)

Book cover A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire

By: Harry Thurston Peck (1856-1914)

Book cover Latin Pronunciation A Short Exposition of the Roman Method

By: Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham (1830-1916)

Book cover Apu Ollantay A Drama of the Time of the Incas

By: Charles Thomas Cruttwell (1847-1911)

Book cover The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius

By: G. W.

Book cover Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703)

By: Eliza Orzeszkowa (1842-1910)

Book cover The Argonauts
Book cover An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story

By: Lawrence Echard (1670?-1730)

Book cover Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694)

By: W. G. (Walter George) Ivens (1871-)

Book cover Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language, Solomon Islands

By: Alexander Hume

Book cover Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles

By: Benjamin Franklin Schappelle (1885-)

Book cover The German Element in Brazil Colonies and Dialect

By: John McLean (1799-1890)

Book cover Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II.
Book cover Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I.

By: Buckingham Smith (1810-1871)

Book cover Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language Shea's Library of American Linguistics. Volume III.

MANUAL OF SURGERY, OXFORD MEDICAL PUBLICATIONSBY ALEXIS THOMSON, F.R.C.S.Ed.PREFACE TO SIXTH EDITION Much has happened since this Manual was last revised, and many surgical lessons have been learned in the hard school of war. Some may yet have to be unlearned, and others have but little bearing on the problems presented to the civilian surgeon. Save in its broadest principles, the surgery of warfare is a thing apart from the general surgery of civil life, and the exhaustive literature now available on every aspect of it makes it unnecessary that it should receive detailed consideration in a manual for students...

By: Stephen Coleridge (1854-1936)

Book cover The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson

By: L. (Launcelot) Cranmer-Byng (1872-1945)

Book cover A Lute of Jade : selections from the classical poets of China

By: James Constantine Pilling (1846-1895)

Book cover Catalogue Of Linguistic Manuscripts In The Library Of The Bureau Of Ethnology. (1881 N 01 / 1879-1880 (Pages 553-578))

By: Inez Bigwood

Book cover Winning a Cause World War Stories

By: Boris Pilniak (1894-1937)

Book cover Tales of the Wilderness

By: William Ridley (1819-1878)

Book cover Gurre Kamilaroi, or, Kamilaroi Sayings (1856)

By: John Stephen Farmer (1845?-1915?)

Book cover Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]

By: Violet Jacob (1863-1946)

Book cover Songs of Angus and More Songs of Angus

By: Morris Rosenfeld (1862-1923)

Book cover Songs of Labor and Other Poems

By: James Jennings

Book cover The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire

By: Fyodor Sologub (1863-1927)

Book cover The Created Legend

By: Elizabeth Elstob (1683-1756)

Book cover An apology for the study of northern antiquities

By: A. Christen

Book cover Esperanto: Hearings before the Committee on Education

By: John Ogilvie (1732-1813)

Book cover An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients

By: N. A. (Napoléon-Antoine) Belcourt (1860-1932)

Book cover Bilingualism Address delivered before the Quebec Canadian Club, at Quebec, Tuesday, March 28th, 1916

By: R. H. (Robert Hamilton) Mathews (1841-1918)

Book cover The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales
Book cover The Gundungurra Language

By: William Benson (1682-1754)

Book cover Letters Concerning Poetical Translations And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c.

By: Charles Hardy

Book cover The Aural System Being the Most Direct, the Straight-Line Method for the Simultaneous Fourfold Mastery of a Foreign Language.

By: Horatio Winslow (1882-1972)

Book cover Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers

By: Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1866-1943)

Book cover Russian Lyrics

By: Kostes Palamas (1859-1943)

Book cover Life Immovable First Part

By: Władysław Stanisław Reymont (1867-1925)

Book cover The Comedienne

By: Mr. (John) Oldmixon (1673-1742)

Book cover Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley (1712) and The British Academy (1712)

By: A. W. (Andrew Woods) Williamson (1838-1905)

Book cover The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages

By: Unknown

The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Unknown The Arabian Nights Entertainments

A collection of folklore stories accumulated during the Islamic Golden Age, The Arabian Nights Entertainments has entertained and fascinated readers for centuries. The book centers on a frame story concerning the sultan Shahrayah and his wife Scheherazade, who cleverly narrates captivating stories to her husband each night in order to save herself from his retribution and live another day. As a result the book encourages the literary technique of a story within a story. The frame story begins when the sultan Shahrayar learns of his brother’s adulterous wife and subsequently discovers his own wife is guilty of infidelity...

By: Anonymous (1821-1890)

The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection’s genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her...

By: Various

Language Learning Collection by Various Language Learning Collection

This collection is part of an initiative to create a language learning resource. The Language Learning Collections contain readings from various language learning books, grammars, primers, phrasebooks, dictionaries, readers and even other works which contain information on various languages, recount experiences of language learning and encountering new languages or provide guides for correct pronunciation, writing or discourse in a language. These works could describe English or any other language whatsoever, from Latin to Sumerian, Chinese to Wampanoag, Esperanto to Swahili (etc...

Best Russian Short Stories by Various Best Russian Short Stories

In this collection of Russian stories, editor and compiler Thomas Seltzer selects from a range of the best examples of 19th and early 20th century Russian literature. As a survey of famous authors at the height of the powers, as well as some writers who have been unjustly neglected, this anthology is indispensable.

By: Anonymous

English as She is Wrote by Anonymous English as She is Wrote

"...Showing Curious ways in which the English Language may be made to convey Ideas or obscure them." A collection of unintentionally humorous uses of the English language. Sections of the work: How she is wrote by the Inaccurate, By Advertisers and on Sign-boards, For Epitaphs, By Correspondents, By the Effusive, How she can be oddly wrote, and By the Untutored.

My Very First Little German Book by Anonymous My Very First Little German Book

An adorable picture book with 29 little lessons in German. Learn many simple and useful phrases, such as "How big the sea is!" and "Have you ever been to the farm?" The English parts of the book are read by Kara, and the German parts by Elli.

By: Unknown

The Mabinogion by Unknown The Mabinogion

Sample a moment of magic realism from the Red Book of Hergest: On one side of the river he saw a flock of white sheep, and on the other a flock of black sheep. And whenever one of the white sheep bleated, one of the black sheep would cross over, and become white; and when one of the black sheep bleated, one of the white sheep would cross over, and become black. Before passing on to the Mabinogion proper, Lady Charlotte Guest devotes Volume I of her compilation of medieval Welsh tales to three brief romances of Arthur’s Court...

By: Plato (424/423 BC - 348/347 BC)

Book cover Apology

The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully defended himself in 399 BC against the charges of "corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel" (24b). "Apology" here has its earlier meaning (now usually expressed by the word "apologia") of speaking in defense of a cause or of one's beliefs or actions (from the Ancient Greek ἀπολογία).

By: Unknown (750? BC - 650? BC)

Book cover The Odyssey

By: Euripides (480-406 BC)

Book cover Medea

Euripides' tragedy focuses on the disintegration of the relationship between Jason, the hero who captured the Golden Fleece, and Medea, the sorceress who returned with him to Corinth and had two sons with him. As the play opens, Jason plans to marry the daughter of King Creon, and the lovesick Medea plots how to take her revenge.

By: Various

Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books by Various Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books

Charles W. Eliot, 21st President of Harvard University, edited this volume of prefaces ... authored by a Who's Who of World Literature: Bacon, Calvin, Caxton, Condell, Copernicus, Dryden, Fielding, Goethe, Heminge, Hugo, Johnson, Knox, Newton, Raleigh, Spenser, Taine, Whitman and Wordsworth. Eliot wrote in his preface to these prefaces, "No part of a book is so intimate as the Preface. Here, after the long labor of the work is over, the author descends from his platform, and speaks with his reader as man to man, disclosing his hopes and fears, seeking sympathy for his difficulties, offering defence or defiance, according to his temper, against the criticisms which he anticipates."

By: Gaius Petronius Arbiter

Book cover The Satyricon

Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry. It is believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as a certain Titus Petronius. As with the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, classical scholars often describe it as a "Roman novel", without necessarily implying continuity with the modern literary form.The surviving portions of the text detail the misadventures of the narrator, Encolpius, and his lover, a handsome sixteen-year-old boy named Giton...


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