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According to Wikipedia: "Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., (August 29, 1809 October 7, 1894) was an American physician and professor who also achieved fame as a writer. During his lifetime, he was one of the best regarded poets of the 19th century and is considered a member of the Fireside Poets."

Autobiography of an immigrant to America, first published in 1921.

First published in 1907, this large collection includes short humorous prose and verse by such writers as James Whitcomb Riley, Carolyn Wells, Bill Nye, William Henry Drummond, John Kendrick Bangs, and Eugene Field.

According to Wikipedia: "Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (13 December 1797 in Düsseldorf 17 February 1856 in Paris) was a journalist, essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets. He is remembered chiefly for selections of his lyric poetry, many of which were set to music in the form of lieder (art songs) by German composers."

According to Wikipedia: "Robert James Campbell Stead (4 September 1880 - 1959) was born at Middleville, Ontario. The family homesteaded at Cartwright, Manitoba in 1882. Robert J.C. Stead began a weekly newspaper in Cartwright in 1899, at the age of 18 years. His first book, The Empire Builders and Other...

First published in 1909. "To re-create the shadowy figures of the heroic past, to clothe the dead once more in flesh and blood, to set the puppets of the play in life's great dramas again upon the stage of action,--frankly, this may not be formal history, but it is what makes the past most real to the...

Popular children's book, set in World War I, first published in 1917.

Popular novel, first published around 1900. According to Wikipedia: "Rosa Nouchette Carey (27 September 1840 9 July 1909) was an English children's novelist."

Popular novel, first published in 1909.

According to Wikipedia: "Carolyn Wells (June 18, 1862March 26, 1942) was an American author and poet (born in Rahway, New Jersey, the daughter of William E. and Anna Wells. She died at the Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York City in 1942. She had been married to Hadwin Houghton, the heir of the Houghton-Mifflin publishing empire founded by Bernard Houghton."

According to Wikipedia: "Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (11 December 1810 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing La Confession d'un enfant du siècle (The Confession of a Child of the Century, autobiographical) from 1836.["

Classic collection of essays, including Theosophy of Julius, On the Connection Between the Animal and the Spiritual Nature in Man, Physical Connection, and Philosophical Connection. According to Wikipedia: ""Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, historian,...

Lord's Lectures, Beacon Lights of History Volume 13. The series was first published 1883-1896. According to Wikipedia: "John Lord (18101894) was an American historian and lecturer. Born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he graduated from Dartmouth in 1833 and then entered the Andover Theological Seminary,...

Classic Roman comedy play. With active table of contents. According to Wikipedia, "Restoration poet and playwright Sir Charles Sedley modelled his comedy Bellamira: or, The Mistress (1687) partly on this play. (161 BC) Eunuchus (The Eunuch) is a comedy written by the Roman playwright Terence featuring...