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According to Wikipedia: "Luise Mühlbach was the pen name of Clara Mundt (18141873), a German writer best known for her works of historical fiction."

According to Wikipedia: "Luise Mühlbach was the pen name of Clara Mundt (18141873), a German writer best known for her works of historical fiction."

According to Wikipedia: "Luise Mühlbach was the pen name of Clara Mundt (18141873), a German writer best known for her works of historical fiction."

According to Wikipedia: "Luise Mühlbach was the pen name of Clara Mundt (18141873), a German writer best known for her works of historical fiction."

Persian tale told by an Englishman, first published in 1895.

Etymology for children, first published in 1918. "Nearly all children must remember times when a word they know quite well and use often has suddenly seemed very strange to them. Perhaps they began repeating the word half to themselves again and again, and wondered why they had never noticed before...

First published in 1907. "The Indians of the Yosemite are fast passing away. Only a handful now remain of the powerful tribes that once gathered in the Valley and considered it an absolute stronghold against their white enemies. Even in their diminished numbers and their comparatively civilized condition,...

Overview of life in Belgium around 1909. Chapter titles include: The Sands Opposite England, Inland: the Flemish Plain, Travelling in Belgium, Some of the Towns: the Ardennes; Belgian Children; Christmas in Belgium, Pageants and Processions, The Carnival, Children's Winter Festivals; Games Played in Belgium; What the Belgians Speak; A Short History; and The Belgian Army: The Congo.

Classic naturalist novel, in English translation. First published in 1888. According to Wikipedia: "Emile Zola (2 April 1840 - 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France...After...

According to Wikipedia: "Anatole France (16 April 1844—12 October 1924), born François-Anatole Thibault, was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered...

First published in 1729. "I had spent about 5 weeks in ranging off and on the coast of New Holland, a length of about 300 leagues: and had put in at 3 several places to see what there might be thereabouts worth discovering; and at the same time to recruit my stock of fresh water and provisions for the...

According to Wikipedia: "Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne (baptized 18 March 1634 25 May 1693), better known as Madame de La Fayette, was a French writer, the author of La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature."

According to Wikipedia: "James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres... Cabell's work was thought of very highly by a number of his peers, including Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Joseph Hergesheimer, and Jack Woodford. When Twain died...

According to Wikipedia: "Edward Gibbon (April 27, 1737[notes 1] January 16, 1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788. The Decline and Fall is known principally...