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by Grant Allen
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
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Whar's Hiram, Het?' Deacon Zephaniah Winthrop asked of his wife, tartly. 'Pears to me that boy's allus off somewhar, whenever he's wanted to do anything. Can't git along without him, any way, when we've...
by Grant Allen
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
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Grant Allen (1848-1899), Canadian anthropologist, scientific writer, novelist and poet wrote The Great Taboo (1890);
Whereat Felix smiled an equally quiet smile. "And terrible as it all was,"...
by Grant Allen
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
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It may sound odd to say so, but the very earliest fact that impressed itself on my memory was a scene that took place - so I was told - when I was eighteen years old, in my father's house, The Grange, at...
by Grant Allen
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
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On the eighteenth day out from Sydney, we were cruising under the lee of Erromanga—of course you know Erromanga, an isolated island between the New Hebrides and the Loyalty group—when suddenly our dusky...
by Grant Allen
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
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Linnet, by Grant Allen (1900). This is a romance of the Tyrol and its scenery and people are described in a manner both effective and pleasing. Two young English tourists come to a little mountain village...
by Jacob Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
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“We are pleased to see that Mr. Abbott intends to admit more of the religious element directly into the Harper’s Story Books series than found its way into the ‘Franconia Stories.’ No family in...
by Jacob Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
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Jacob Abbott (November 14, 1803 – October 31, 1879) was an American writer of children's books. On November 14, 1803, Abbott was born in Hallowell, Maine. Abbott's father was Jacob Abbott and his mother...
by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2018
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This novel was conceived in the heated and controversial politics of Britain at the turn of the century. Arthur Granger, an aristocratic and unsuccessful novelist, betrays the ideals he prides himself on...
by Ambrose Bierce
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
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Brilliant and magnetic as are these two studies by Ambrose Bierce, and especially significant as coming from one who was a boy soldier in the Civil War, they merely reflect one side of his original and...
by Horatio Alger
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
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All of Alger's juvenile novels share essentially the same theme, known as the "Horatio Alger myth": a teenage boy works hard to escape poverty. Often it is not hard work that rescues the boy from...
by Wilkie Collins
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
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My Miscellanies is the 1893 collection of short stories and essays by the famous English novelist and playwright. This contains the complete set of both volumes.
by Charles Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
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The publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species in 1859 ignited a public storm he neither wanted nor enjoyed. Having offered his book as a contribution to science, Darwin discovered to his dismay that...
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
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In this brief John Knox biography I have tried, as much as I may, to get behind Tradition, which has so deeply affected even modern histories of the Scottish Reformation, and even recent Biographies of...
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
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They were rather an incongruous element amid the festivities, but they bore themselves very well, notwithstanding, and seemed to be sufficiently interested. The elder of the two-a tall, slender, middle-aged...