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by Anatole France
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

Anatole France was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française,...
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by Thomas Carlyle
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016

One of the most vital and pregnant books in our modern literature, “Sartor Resartus” is also, in structure and form, one of the most daringly original. It defies exact classification. It is not a philosophic treatise. It is not an autobiography. It is not a romance. Yet in a sense it is all these...
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Common Sense

Bestsellers and famous Books

by Thomas Paine
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016

Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution, and became an immediate sensation. As of 2006, it remains the all-time best selling...
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Anarchy and Anarchists

Communism, Socialismism in Doctrine and in Deed

by Michael Schaack
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016

It has seemed to me that there should be a history of the development, the revolt, and the tragedy of Anarchy in Chicago. This history I have written as impartially and as fairly as I knew how to write it. I have kept steadily before my eyes the motto,— “Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in...
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by John Dewey
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

The three lectures presented in the following pages were delivered before an audience of parents and others interested in the University Elementary School, in the month of April of the year 1899. Mr. Dewey revised them in part from a stenographic report, and unimportant changes and the slight adaptations...
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by Popular Mechanics Company
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

How to construct wireless outfits, boats, camp equipment, aerial gliders, kites, self-propelled vehicles engines, motors, electrical apparatus, cameras and hundreds of other things which delight every boy.
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by Bogart Thomas Curtis Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017

The railroads of the United States, now aggregating a hundred and fifty thousand miles and having several hundred different managements, are frequently spoken of comprehensively as the railroad system of the country, as though they constituted a unity in fact, and might be regarded and dealt with as...
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by William John Locke
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017

William John Locke was a novelist and playwright. Five times Locke's books made the list of best-selling novels in the United States for the year. His works have been made into 24 motion pictures the most recent of which was Ladies in Lavender, filmed in 2004 and starring Dame Judi Dench and Maggie Smith....
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by Jr. Horatio Alger
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2017

“I wish I could send you to college, Guy,” said Mr. Fenwick, as they sat in the library, reading by the soft light of a student lamp. The speaker was the Rev. Mr. Fenwick, the pastor of a church in Bayport, a few miles from New Bedford, Massachusetts. “I don't think I care much about going to college,...
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by R. M. Ballantyne
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016

I was a boy when I went through the wonderful adventures herein set down.With the memory of my boyish feelings strong upon me, I present my book specially to boys, in the earnest hope that they may derive valuable information, much pleasure, great profit, and unbounded amusement from its pages. One word...
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A Lear of the Steppes

A Lear of the Steppes, Faust, Acia

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016

An examination of A Lear of the Steppes is of especial interest to authors, as the story is so exquisite in its structure, so overwhelming in its effects, that it exposes the artificiality of the great majority of the clever works of art in fiction. A Lear of the Steppes is great in art because it is...
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by Vaughan Kester
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2016

VAUGHAN KESTER THE HAND OF THE MIGHTY THE BAD MAN OF LAS VEGAS MOLLIE DARLING THE BLOOD OF HIS ANCESTORS WHEN WE HAVE WAITED THE DESERTER WHAT REARTON SAW HOW MR. RATHBURN WAS BROUGHT IN MISS CAXTON'. FATHER THE HALF-BREED WILLIE MR. FEENY'. SOCIAL EXPERIMENT ALL THAT A MAN HATH
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by Arthur Stringer
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016

What bird that climbs the cool dim Dawn But loves the air its wild wings roam? And yet when all the day is gone But turns its weary pinions home, And when the yellow twilight fills The lonely stretches of the West, Comes down across the darkened hills, Once more to its remembered nest? And I who strayed,...
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by Robert W. Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016

The Seagraves In Trust The Threshold The Year of Discretion Roya-Neh Adrift Together An Afterglow Confession Dusk Fête Galante The Love of the Gods Ambitions and Letters The Prophets Dysart Through the Woods The Danger Mark Bon Chien Questions and Answers In Search of Herself The Golden Hours Cloudy Mountain Sine Die
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