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Cover of Parallel Paths: A Study in Biology, Ethics, and Art
by T. W. Rolleston
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

First published in 1908. According to Wikipedia: "Thomas William Hazen Rolleston (18571920) was an Irish writer, literary figure and translator, known as a poet but publishing over a wide range of literary and political topics. He lived at various times in Dublin, Germany, London and County Wicklow;...
Cover of The Crew of the Water Wagtail
by R. M. Ballantyne
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "R. M. Ballantyne (April 24, 1825 February 8, 1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer. Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. At the age of 16 he went to Canada and was six years in the service of the Hudson's...
Cover of Rezanov
by Gertrude Atherton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 June 14, 1948) was an American writer…. She eloped with George H.B. Atherton when she was only 19, and had two children. Her husband discouraged her writing; and the serial publication of her first novel, The Randolphs of Redwoods...
Cover of The Basket of Flowers
by Von Schmid, Christoph
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015

According to Wikipedia: "Writer of children's stories and educator, Christoph von Schmid was born at Dinkelsbuehl, in Bavaria, on 15 August 1768, and died at Augsburg on September 3, 1854. He studied theology and was ordained priest in 1791. Christoph von Schmid then served as assistant in several parishes...
Cover of Doomswoman: an Historical Romance of Old California
by Gertrude Atherton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 June 14, 1948) was an American writer…. She eloped with George H.B. Atherton when she was only 19, and had two children. Her husband discouraged her writing; and the serial publication of her first novel, The Randolphs of Redwoods...
Cover of The Splendid Idle Forties
by Gertrude Atherton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 June 14, 1948) was an American writer…. She eloped with George H.B. Atherton when she was only 19, and had two children. Her husband discouraged her writing; and the serial publication of her first novel, The Randolphs of Redwoods...
Cover of Myths of the Rhine (Illustrated)
by Saintine, X. B.
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015

Xavier Boniface Saintine (10 July 1798 21 January 1865) was a French dramatist and novelist... In 1823, he produced a volume of poetry in the manner of the Romanticists, entitled Poèmes, odes, épîtres. In 1836 appeared Picciola, a novel about the comte de Charney, a political prisoner in Piedmont,...
Cover of The Avalanche
by Gertrude Atherton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 June 14, 1948) was an American writer…. She eloped with George H.B. Atherton when she was only 19, and had two children. Her husband discouraged her writing; and the serial publication of her first novel, The Randolphs of Redwoods...
Cover of The Sisters
by Georg Ebers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Georg Moritz Ebers (Berlin, March 1, 1837 Tutzing, Bavaria, August 7, 1898), German Egyptologist and novelist, discovered the Egyptian medical papyrus, of ca 1550 BCE, named for him (see Ebers papyrus) at Luxor (Thebes) in the winter of 187374. Now in the library of the University...
Cover of Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast, short story
by R. M. Ballantyne
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "R. M. Ballantyne (April 24, 1825 February 8, 1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer. Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. At the age of 16 he went to Canada and was six years in the service of the Hudson's...
Cover of The Idea of God in Early Religions
by F.B. Jevons
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Frank Byron Jevons (18581936) was a polymath, academic and administrator of Durham University. He was educated at Nottingham High School and Wadham College, Oxford and appointed a lecturer in Classics at Durham in 1882. ..He was author of eighteen scholarly texts some of which,...
Cover of Records of a Girlhood
by Frances Ann Kemble
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Popular autobiography, first published in 1879. According to Wikipedia: "Frances Anne Kemble (27 November 1809 - 15 January 1893), was a famous British actress and author in the early and mid nineteenth century… In 1834, she retired from the stage to marry an American, Pierce Butler, grandson of the...
Cover of Clemence, the Schoolmistress of Waveland
by Retta B. Babcock
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Popular novel, first published in 1870.
Cover of Frida or The Lover's Leap, a Legend of the West Country, a short story
by R. D. Blackmore
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Richard Doddridge Blackmore (7 June 1825 20 January 1900), referred to most commonly as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century. Over the course of his career, Blackmore achieved a close following around the...
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