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Admiral William A. Moffett
Architect of Naval Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Naval aviation historian William F. Trimble provides a clear and detailed portrait of the man who took on the challenge of forming an aeronautical bureau within the U.S. Navy in 1921 and then nurtured the early development of naval aviation. Describing Admiral William A. Moffett as one of the first high-ranking...
Slave Narratives (LOA #114)
James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw / Olaudah Equiano / Nat Turner / Frederick Douglass / William Wells Brown / Henry Bibb / Sojourner Truth / William and Ell
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2000
The ten works collected in this volume demonstrate how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary tradition by expressing their in anger, pain, sorrow, and courage.
Included in the volume: Narrative of the Most...
by William Rheem Lighton
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
CHARACTERISTICS In the years 1804, 1805, and 1806, two men commanded an expedition which explored the wilderness that stretched from the mouth of the Missouri River to where the Columbia enters the Pacific, and dedicated to civilization a new empire. Their names were Meriwether Lewis and William Clark....
The First William P. McGivern Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®
25 Classic Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
William P. McGivern, a popular and prolific science fiction writer in the 1940s and 1950s (under his own name as well as the pseudonyms Gerald Vance and P.F. Costello), later achieved fame as a noir and hardboiled mystery author of such classics as "The Big Heat." The First William P. McGivern Science...
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Picture Book Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Now a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village.
When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all...
by William Butler Yeats
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Ideas of Good and Evil William Butler Yeats, irish poet (1865-1939)
This ebook presents «Ideas of Good and Evil», from William Butler Yeats. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.
Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- WHAT IS...
by William Hazlitt
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This collection includes: Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, Lectrues on the English Poets, Liber Amoris, The Spirit of the Ag, and Table-Talk. According to Wikipedia: "William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 18 September 1830) was an English writer, remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism,...
by William Wordsworth
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Volumes 1 to 4 of the 8 volume collection edited by William Knight, in a single file. These volumes include his finest and best-known poems (composed 1787-1813), including The Prelude. According to Wikipedia: "William Wordsworth (1770 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor...
by Adolphus William Ward
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
4 works of Adolphus William Ward English historian and man of letters (1837-1924)
This ebook presents a collection of 4 works of Adolphus William Ward. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Table of Contents: - Chaucer - Dickens - Founder's Day in War Time - Leibniz as a Politician
by William Blake
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This unique collection of "William Blake, the Immortal Artist - Complete Drawings & Engravings in One Edition" has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. William Blake (1757 – 1827) was an English poet, painter, engraver; one of the earliest and greatest figures...
by William Henry Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
15 works of William Henry Hudson Author, naturalist, and ornithologist (1841-1922)
This ebook presents a collection of 15 works of William Henry Hudson. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Table of Contents: A Crystal Age A Shepherd's Life...
by William Wordsworth, Neil Azevedo
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850, was an English poet most commonly associated with being, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the early figures of British romanticism. Their publication of the volume LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798 often serves as a marker of sorts for when that movement publicly...
William Goyen
Selected Letters from a Writer’s Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Proclaimed "one of the great American writers of short fiction" by the New York Times Book Review, William Goyen (1915-1983) had a quintessentially American literary career, in which national recognition came only after years of struggle to find his authentic voice, his audience, and an artistic milieu...
RUNNING A THOUSAND MILES FOR FREEDOM
Incredible Escape of William & Ellen Craft from the Notorious Southern Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
"Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom" chronicles the daring escape of William and Ellen Craft which is often known as the most ingenious plot in fugitive slave history. While Ellen posed as a white male planter William, her husband, posed as her personal servant. The couple cleverly travelled...