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The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...

A word of explanation is needed for this book, which, in attempting to be at once a story and a history, probably fails in either aim. That, however, is for the reader to say. As the writer, I have only to point out where my history ends, my story begins, and clear the way for criticism. Briefly, then,...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...

Whose Animal Characters Are As Real As Your Own Buddies HE was born one fine April night in a disused ant-bear’s hole, which had been enlarged by his mother and her “sisters of the pack” out of all resemblance to its original self, and for many weeks he knew nothing more of the world than that...

The play idea will always appeal to the minds of children. History, so often thought to be a dry subject, is made a live wide awake game when the pupils live the parts. The great men and women of history are made real to them. This method has been worked out by the pupils in the fifth grade in the McKinley...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...

“The adventurous spirits, who haunted the forest and plain, grew fond of their wild life and affected a great contempt for civilization.” You boxed-up, mewed-up artificials, Pent in your piles of mortar and stone, Hugging your finely spun judicials, Adorning externals, externals alone, Vaunting in...

In the Gospels of the only Divine Friend this world has ever had or ever will have, we read of a Voice, a ‘Voice in the Wilderness.’ There have been thousands of such Voices;—most of them ineffectual. All through the world’s history their echoes form a part of the universal record, and from the...

PREFAZIONE, O QUASI… LA LETTERATURA ITALIANA NEL 1896 —Ma che inventario vuoi fare? L'inventario della miseria? —Non esageriamo. Io non sono un gran lettore e per parecchie ragioni: primieramente perchè non ho molti quattrini da spendere in libri—e questo mi dispenserebbe di dirti il resto—;...

NUOVI IDEALI D'ARTE E DI CRITICA (Conferenza detta il giorno 11 maggio 1899 nella sala del Teatro Nuovo di Pisa, a beneficio degli Asili Infantili.) Signore e Signori. Ogni volta che sento ragionare o sragionare di arte — e a me accade spesso, bene o male, essa è il mio mestiere — mi torna in mente...

Ogni volta che ricordo mio padre, lo rivedo come in quel giorno, presso la finestra del suo largo studio, alto, aitante della persona, coi folti capelli brizzolati che gli mettevano una specie di aureola attorno alla fronte, con la barba fluente su l'ampio torace; e mi par di sentirne risonare la parola...