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Cover of George Bernard Shaw: three novels and a short story in a single file
by George Bernard Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This file includes: Cashel Byron's Profession, The Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot, and The Miraculous Revenge. According to Wikipedia: "George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable...
Cover of The Belton Estate
by Anthony Trollope
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic Trollope novel. 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 around the imaginary county of Barsetshire;...
Cover of The Piccolomini, a play about Wallenstein, in English translation
by Frederick Schiller
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic Schiller drama about the Thirty Years' War, translated to English by the poet Coleridge. . According to Wikipedia: "Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist. During the last few years of his life (17881805), Schiller struck...
Cover of The Indiscretion of the Duchess
by Anthony Hope
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 8 July 1933), was an English novelist and playwright. Although he was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel...
Cover of The King's Mirror
by Anthony Hope
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 8 July 1933), was an English novelist and playwright. Although he was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel...
Cover of Frivolous Cupid
by Anthony Hope
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 8 July 1933), was an English novelist and playwright. Although he was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel...
Cover of The Secret of the Tower
by Anthony Hope
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 8 July 1933), was an English novelist and playwright. Although he was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel...
Cover of North of Boston, collection of poetry
by Robert Frost
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 January 29, 1963) was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech.[1] His work frequently employed themes from the early 1900s rural life in New England, using...
Cover of Deephaven and Selected Stories and Sketches
by Sarah Orne Jewett
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 June 24, 1909) was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for her local color works set in or near South Berwick, Maine, on the border of New Hampshire, which in her day was a declining New England seaport.... She published...
Cover of The Queen's Twin and Other Stories
by Sarah Orne Jewett
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 June 24, 1909) was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for her local color works set in or near South Berwick, Maine, on the border of New Hampshire, which in her day was a declining New England seaport.... She published...
Cover of De La Democratie en Amerique, all four volumes, in the original French
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Language: French
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "De la démocratie en Amérique (published in ... 1835 and ... 1840) is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville on the United States in the 1830s and its strengths and weaknesses. A literal translation of its title is On Democracy in America, but the usual translation of...
Cover of First Historians: Herodotus' History and Thucydides' Peloponnesian War
by Herodotus, Thucydides
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This file includes two history classics: The History by Herodotus and The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides. According to Wikipedia: Herodotus "has been called the "Father of History", and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and...
Cover of The Fourth Book of Virgil's Aeneid and the Ninth book of Voltaire's Henriad, in English translation
by Voltaire
Language: English
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...
Cover of In His Steps
by Charles Sheldon
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Charles Monroe Sheldon (February 26, 1857 in Wellsville, New York February 24, 1946) was an American minister in the Congregational churches and leader of the Social Gospel movement."
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