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By: Cyrus Townsend Brady (1861-1920) | |
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For Love of Country A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution |
By: D. D. (Daniel Desmond) Sheehan (1873-1948) | |
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Ireland Since Parnell |
By: D. Douglas Ogilvie | |
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The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 | |
By: D. G. (David George) Hogarth (1862-1927) | |
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The Ancient East |
By: D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery (1837-1928) | |
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The Leading Facts of English History |
By: D. H. S. (David Herbert Somerset) Cranage (1866-1957) | |
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The War and Unity Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918 |
By: D. W. (David W.) Belisle | |
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The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West |
By: D.H. Montgomery | |
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The Beginner's American History
THE BEGINNER'S AMERICAN HISTORYBy D. H. MONTGOMERYPREFATORY NOTE.This little book is intended by the writer as an introduction to his larger work entitled The Leading Facts of American History. It is in no sense an abridgment of the larger history, but is practically an entirely new and distinct work. Its object is to present clearly and accurately those facts and principles in the lives of some of the chief founders and builders of America which would be of interest and value to pupils beginning the study of our history... |
By: Daisy Ashford (1881-1972) | |
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The Young Visiters, or Mr. Salteena's Plan
The Young Visiters is a comic romance novella that parodies upper class society of late Victorian England. Social climber Alfred Salteena introduces his young lady friend Ethel to a genuine gentleman named Bernard and, to his irritation, they hit it off. But Bernard helps Alfred in his plan to become a gentleman, which, Alfred hopes, will help him win back Ethel. |
By: Dama Margaret Smith (1892-1973) | |
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I Married a Ranger |
By: Dame M. Columban | |
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Irish Nuns at Ypres: An Episode of the War
“…I have charged Dame M. Columban to give a detailed account of all that has befallen the Community, since the coming of the Germans to Ypres till our safe arrival at Oulton Abbey. I can therefore certify that all that is in this little book, taken from the notes which several of the nuns had kept, is perfectly true, and only a simple narrative of our own personal experiences of the War.” The Abbey of the Irish Dames of Ypres was established in 1665. It was a favorite Abbey for the daughters of Irish nobility and was supported by influential Irish families living in exile... |
By: Dame Shirley (d.1906) | |
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The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe moved to California from Massachusetts during the Gold Rush of the mid-1800’s. During her travels, Louise was offered the opportunity to write for The Herald about her travel adventures. It was at this point that Louise chose the name “Shirley” as her pen name. Dame Shirley wrote a series of 23 letters to her sister Mary Jane (also known as Molly) in Massachusetts in 1851 and 1852. The “Shirley Letters”, as the collected whole later became known, gave true accounts of life in two gold mining camps on the Feather River in the 1850s... |
By: Dan DeQuille (1829-1898) | |
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History of the Comstock Silver Lode and Mines
This is a brief account of the Comstock Lode silver mines, and description of the geographic features of the state of Nevada including the railroads. Silver not only defined Nevada, but influenced the opening of the American West as far as San Francisco. Dan De Quille wrote extensively on the history of mining in the area of Nevada, and published the larger work “The Big Bonanza” assisted by Mark Twain, both of whom were part of the Sagebrush School of writers. - Summary by Larry Wilson |
By: Daniel A. (Daniel Ayres) Goodsell (1840-1909) | |
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Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm |
By: Daniel Collins | |
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Narrative of the shipwreck of the brig Betsey, of Wiscasset, Maine, and murder of five of her crew, by pirates, on the coast of Cuba, Dec. 1824. |
By: Daniel Davenport (1773-1860) | |
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The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town of New Milford, Conn. June 17th, 1907 Address Delivered by Daniel Davenport, of Bridgeport, Conn. |
By: Daniel Defoe (1659/1661-1731) | |
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The History of the Plague in London
The History of the Plague in London is a historical novel offering an account of the dismal events caused by the Great Plague, which mercilessly struck the city of London in 1665. First published in 1722, the novel illustrates the social disorder triggered by the outbreak, while focusing on human suffering and the mere devastation occupying London at the time. Defoe opens his book with the introduction of his fictional character H.F., a middle-class man who decides to wait out the destruction of the plague instead of fleeing to safety, and is presented only by his initials throughout the novel... | |
A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London | |
The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2) or a History of the Life of Mademoiselle de Beleau Known by the Name of the Lady Roxana | |
Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. | |
Tour through Eastern Counties of England, 1722 | |
From London to Land's End and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman" | |
Atalantis Major | |
Dickory Cronke |
By: Daniel G. Brinton (1837-1899) | |
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The Myths of the New World
The Myths of the New World's full title describes it as.. " a treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America", an attempt to analyse and correlate scientifically, the mythology of the American Indians. Note: Brinton advocated theories of scientific racism that were pervasive at that time. |
By: Daniel Knower | |
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The Adventures of a Forty-niner An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days |