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Cover of Stories of New Jersey
by Stockton, Frank
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015

According to Wikipedia: "Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. Stockton avoided the didactic moralizing, common...
Cover of Complete Tom Sawyer: all four of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer novels
by Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This file includes: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Abroad, and Tom Sawyer, Detective. According to Wikipedia: "Tom Sawyer is the protagonist and title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He appears in three other novels...
Cover of North America, Both volumes in a single file
by Anthony Trollope
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Account of Trollope's travels in America. Two volumes in one file. According to Wikipedia: "Anthony Trollope ( 1815 1882 ) became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve...
Cover of Stephen Leacock: 12 books of humor
by Stephen Leacock
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This file includes: Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, Behind the Beyond, Frenzied Fiction, Further Foolishness, The Hohenzollerns in America with the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities, Literary Lapses, Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy, My Discovery of England, Nonsense Novels, Sunshine...
Cover of The Making of a Saint
by Somerset Maugham
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

A historical novel of Renaissance Italy. According to Wikipedia: " William Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874 16 December 1965) was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s."
Cover of The Strolling Saint
by Rafael Sabatini
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The Strolling Saint is a swashbuckling novel, set in Italy in the 15th Century, written by Rafael Sabatini and published in 1913 and revised in 1925. It revolves around Agostino d'Anguissola who's mother has brought him up to be a strict Catholic and who's father is a enemy of Papal authorities. It follows...
Cover of Slave Narratives: Mississippi
by Library of Congress
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Florida. Other files, published separately,...
Cover of Honore de Balzac, a biography in English
by Albert Keirn
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Literary biography. According to Wikipedia: "Honore de Balzac (May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in...
Cover of Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil
by G. W. Leibniz
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1 July 1646 [OS: 21 June] 14 November 1716) was a German polymath who wrote primarily in Latin and French. He occupies an equally grand place in both the history of philosophy and the history of mathematics. He invented infinitesimal calculus independently...
Cover of Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
by Immanuel Kant
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 12 February 1804) was an 18th-century German philosopher from the Prussian city of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). He is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of modern Europe and of the late Enlightenment. Kant created a new widespread...
Cover of Frenzied Fiction
by Stephen Leacock
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Stephen Butler Leacock, FRSC (30 December 1869 28 March 1944) was a Canadian writer and economist... Early in his career, Leacock turned to fiction, humour, and short reports to supplement (and ultimately exceed) his regular income. His stories, first published in magazines...
Cover of Principles of Home Decoration with Practical Examples (1903)
by Candace Wheeler
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Practical household advice, first published in 1903. "Probably no art has so few masters as that of decoration. In England, Morris was for many years the great leader, but among his followers in England no one has attained the dignity of unquestioned authority; and in America, in spite of far more general practice of the art, we still are without a leader whose very name establishes law."
Cover of Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle
by Clement Shorter
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Biography of the novelist. According to Wikipedia: "Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855) was a British novelist, the eldest out of the three famous Bronte sisters whose novels have become standards of English literature."
Cover of Abrege de l'Histoire Universelle
by Voltaire
Language: French
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 30 May 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosopher known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and free trade. Voltaire...
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