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By: Harry Vincent Wann | |
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French Conversation and Composition |
By: Helen Fryer | |
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The Esperanto Teacher
The international language Esperanto was first released to the world in 1887, when L. L. Zamenhof published his first book, “Dr. Esperanto’s International Language”. Since that time, many learning books have been developed to help the beginner attain a proficiency in the language. Helen Fryer’s “Esperanto Teacher” is one of the earliest of these attempts in English. Divided into 45 short and easy lessons and supplemented with sections on joining words, exclamations, compound words, arrangement... |
By: Hélène A. Guerber (1859-1929) | |
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Contes et légendes 1re Partie | |
By: Henry Bate | |
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A Short System of English Grammar For the Use of the Boarding School in Worcester (1759) |
By: Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868) | |
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Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems |
By: Henry Hobart Vail (1839-1925) | |
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A History of the McGuffey Readers |
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 Sweet (1845-1912) | |
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Icelandic Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary |
By: Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) | |
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Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero | |
Sielanka: An Idyll |
By: Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) | |
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China and the Chinese
Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) spent several years as a diplomat in China and in 1897 was appointed Cambridge University’s second professor of Chinese. His published works cover Chinese language and literature, history and philosophy. This series of lectures, published as “China and the Chinese”, was given at Columbia University in 1902, to mark the establishment of a Chinese professorship there. The lectures were not intended for the specialist, more to urge a wider and more systematic study of China and its culture, and to encourage new students into the field... |
By: Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) | |
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The Philosophy of Style
“The Philosophy of Style,” explored a growing trend of formalist approaches to writing. Highly focused on the proper placement and ordering of the parts of an English sentence, [Spencer] created a guide for effective composition. Spencer’s aim was to free prose writing from as much “friction and inertia” as possible, so that the reader would not be slowed by strenuous deliberations concerning the proper context and meaning of a sentence. |
By: Hetty Sibyl Browne (1875-1966) | |
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The Literary World Seventh Reader |
By: Homer | |
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The Odyssey
A wandering king who's a war-hero doomed to roam the earth by a vengeful God, a plethora of fantastic experiences, a wife battling the invasion of suitors who wish to replace her missing husband, a son in search of his father - the Odyssey is a rich tapestry of incredible experiences and unforgettable characters. A must-read classic for anyone who wants to understand the fundamentals of Western mythology, it is a sequel to the Illiad which recounts the magnificent saga of the Trojan War. The Odyssey continues on, describing the trials and tribulations of the Greeks under the leadership of Odysseus... | |
The Iliad
A divinely beautiful woman who becomes the cause of a terrible war in which the gods themselves take sides. Valor and villainy, sacrifices and betrayals, triumphs and tragedies play their part in this three thousand year old saga. The Iliad throws us right into the thick of battle. It opens when the Trojan War has already been raging for nine long years. An uneasy truce has been declared between the Trojans and the Greeks (Achaeans as they're called in The Iliad.) In the Greek camp, Agamemnon the King of Mycenae and Achilles the proud and valiant warrior of Phthia are locked in a fierce contest to claim the spoils of war... |
By: Horace Elisha Scudder (1838-1902) | |
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Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading Selected from English and American Literature |
By: Horatio Hale (1817-1896) | |
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The Iroquois Book of Rites |
By: Horatio Winslow (1882-1972) | |
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Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers |
By: Ida C. (Ida Catherine) Bender (1857-1916) | |
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Eighth Reader |
By: Ilia Lvovich Tolstoi (1866-1933) | |
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Reminiscences of Tolstoy |
By: Inez Bigwood | |
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Winning a Cause World War Stories |
By: Isabel Florence Hapgood (1850-1928) | |
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A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections |
By: Ivan S. Turgenev (1818-1883) | |
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Fathers and Children | |
Rudin
Rudin is the first and perhaps least known novel by Ivan Turgenev, a famous Russian writer best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. The story focuses on a romantic involvement between Rudin and Natalya, a serious, intelligent young woman. The topic of the “superfluous man” and his inability to act, which was a major theme of Turgenev's literary work, is explored. – Adapted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudin by Lee Smalley | |
Virgin Soil | |
On the Eve
On the Eve appeared in 1860, two years before Fathers and Sons, Turgenev's most famous novel. It is set in the prior decade (by the end of the novel, the Crimean War (1853-56) has already broken out. It centers on the young Elena Nikolaevna Stakhov, daughter of Nikolai Arteyemvitch and Anna Vassilyevna Stahov. Misunderstood by both her parents (Nikolai Artemyevitch is at least as interested in his German mistress as in members of her family) she is on friendly terms with both the would-be professor Andrei Petrovitch Bersenyev and the rising young sculptor Pavel Yakovitch Shubin, both of whom might be -- or might not be -- in love with her... | |
A Desperate Character and Other Stories | |
A Nobleman's Nest | |
The Rendezvous 1907 |
By: Ivy Kellerman Reed (1877-1968) | |
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A Complete Grammar of Esperanto |
By: J. M. D. (John Miller Dow) Meiklejohn (1830-1902) | |
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A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 |
By: James Champlin Fernald (1838-1918) | |
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
English Synonyms and Antonyms is basically a vocabulary builder that students might use as they prepare for entrance or exit exams. Each entry gives a list of synonyms, followed by a paragraph that briefly explains or exemplifies the subtle distinctions between the listed words. The entries sometimes close with a few words on the prepositions that follow selected synonyms, but more often with a list of antonyms.By "synonyms" we usually understand words that coincide or nearly coincide in some part of their meaning, and may hence within certain limits be used interchangeably, while outside of those limits they may differ very greatly in meaning and use... |