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*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Memories and Portraits is a collection of essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1887. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: During the 1800s in America, the rise of technology allowed people to have more possessions than ever before, and at a cheaper cost. However, a group known as the Transcendentalists believed that possessions...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1860 book, The Conduct of Life is among the gems of his mature works. First published in the year of Abraham Lincoln's election as President, this work poses the questions of human...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Written between the inception of Middlemarch and the completion, seven years later, of Daniel Deronda this book is a charming treatment of a subject taken from Boccaccio; a poem interesting by virtue of...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries of the classics which are one of the real improvements of recent...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: It seems justly due to Mr. Hawthorne that the occasion of any portion of his private journals being brought before the Public should be made known, since they were originally designed for his own reference...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: The letters of Charles Dickens, of which more than 14,000 are known, range in date from about 1821, when Dickens was 9 years old, to 8 June 1870, the day before he died.[1] They have been described as "invariably...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: History is our Heaven-appointed instructor. It is the guide for the future. The calamities of yesterday are the protectors of to-day. The sea of time we navigate is full of perils. But it is not an unknown...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: In the course of his travels in Europe, Rollo went with his uncle George one summer to spend a fortnight in Scotland. There are several ways of going into Scotland from England. One way is to take a steamer...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: A most singular contrariety of opinion prevails in the community in regard to the pleasantness of the business of teaching. Some teachers go to their daily task merely upon compulsion; they regard it as...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Rollos Experiments By Jacob Abbott One day, when was about seven years old, he was sitting upon the steps of the door, and he heard a noise in the street, as of some sort of carriage approaching. A moment...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: The last day that Rollo spent in Paris, before he set out on his journey into Switzerland, he had an opportunity to acquire, by actual experience, some knowledge of the nature of the passport system. Before...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: 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...