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Cover of The Pilot and His Wife
by Jonas Lie
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie (November 6, 1833 July 5, 1908) was a Norwegian novelist, considered to be one of the Four Greats of 19th century Norwegian literature."
Cover of The Problem of the Ohio Mounds (c. 1900)
by Cyrus Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples. They are often also referred to as Native Americans, First Nations, Amerigine, and by Christopher Columbus' geographical...
Cover of Fallen Star or The History of a False Religion
by Edward Bulwer Lytton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (May 25, 1803January 18, 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and the infamous incipit "It was a dark and stormy night."
Cover of Philosophy and Religion
by Hastings Rashdall
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Hastings Rashdall (1858 1924) was an English philosopher who expounded a theory known as ideal utilitarianism. Son of an Anglican priest, he was educated at Harrow and received a scholarship for New College, Oxford. After short tenures at St David's University College and University...
Cover of The Guardian Angel
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

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."
Cover of Pages from an Old Volume of Life
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

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."
Cover of Classics of Judaism, 11 great books of Jewish wisdom in a single file
by Moses Maimonides, Ginzberg, Louis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This file includes 11 books: Medieval Hebrew (featuring The Midrash and medieval collections of Jewish biblical lore and legend), Hebraic Literature (translations from the Talmud, Midrashim, and KabbalaTales and Maxims from the Midrash by Samuel Rapaport, The Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (Pirke Abot),...
Cover of Forty-one Thieves: A Tale of California
by Angelo Hall
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Popular novel, first published in 1919.
Cover of Rhymes a la Mode (in the original French)
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic verse. According to Wikipedia: "Andrew Lang (March 31, 1844, Selkirk - July 20, 1912, Banchory, Kincardineshire) was a prolific Scots man of letters. He was a poet, novelist, and literary critic, and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales."
Cover of Polyeucte, a play in English translation
by Pierre Corneille
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Pierre Corneille (June 6, 1606 October 1, 1684) was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth Century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. He has been called “the founder of French tragedy” and produced plays for nearly forty years."
Cover of The Cid, in English translation
by Pierre Corneille
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Pierre Corneille (June 6, 1606 October 1, 1684) was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth Century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. He has been called “the founder of French tragedy” and produced plays for nearly forty years."
Cover of Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians chapters I to V
by Alexander MacLaren
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Christian Classics Ethereal Library: "Alexander MacLaren - 1826-1910), Baptist preacher and expositor Maclaren was born in Glasgow on February 11, 1826, and died in Manchester on May 5, 1910. He had been for almost sixty-five years a minister, entirely devoted to his calling. He lived...
Cover of The Natural History of Selborne, both volumes (1790)
by Gilbert White
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Natural history of a town in England, first published in 1790. According to Wikipedia: "Gilbert White FRS (18 July 1720 26 June 1793) was a pioneering English naturalist and ornithologist… White is best known for his The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789). This was a compilation of...
Cover of King Lear, Trilingual Edition (English with line numbers and French and German translations)
by William Shakespeare
Language: German
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The Shakespeare tragedy, in English with line numbers and translated to French and German. According to Wikipedia: "King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery,...
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