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by E. Nesbit
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016

Alfred the Great Prince Arthur Henry the Third The First Prince of Wales Edward the Black Prince Henry the Fifth and the Baby King
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by G. Hutchinson Hutchinson Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2017

If it be asked why another biography is added to the almost endless number now in our bookstores and libraries, an answer is found in the countless distinctions of individual character, and in the varied experiences which come to men in different walks of life. The botanist says that of all leaves in...
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Candide: or, The Optimist

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by Voltaire
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016

Candide: or, All for the Best, The Optimist or Optimism begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply "optimism") by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle,...
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The Prince - Il Principe

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by Niccolo Machiavelli
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016

The Prince is sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern philosophy, especially modern political philosophy, in which the effective truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal. It was also in direct conflict with the dominant Catholic and scholastic doctrines of the time concerning politics and ethics.
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Heart of Darkness

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by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016

Story about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa. This setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the ivory trader Kurtz, which enables Conrad to create a parallel between London and Africa as places of darkness. Central to Conrad's work...
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The Call of the Wild

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by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016

The Call of the Wild, an adventure novel set in Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is stolen from his home and sold...
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by Richard Harding Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016

THE STREETS OF PARIS THE SHOW-PLACES OF PARIS—NIGHT PARIS IN MOURNING THE GRAND PRIX AND OTHER PRIZES AMERICANS IN PARIS
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The Time Machine

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by H. G. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016

The Time Machine is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Wells is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposely and selectively forwards or backwards in time. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now...
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The Medici Balls

Seven little journeys in Tuscany

by M. Moyca Newell
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016

Why the Medici family assumed the well-known device of red balls on a field of gold, is one of the vexed questions of heraldic history. Some hold that as the saints, Cosmo and Damian, who appear so often in the votive pictures of the Medici, were also patron saints of medicine and surgery, and because...
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by Ella Noyes Noyes
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017

Everybody has been in Milan, but who knows Milan? The traveller in search of the picturesque and mediæval sees nothing to arrest him—except comfortable hotels—in a city which seems to tell only of yesterday. A glance at the Cathedral, at St. Ambrogio, at the most famous of the pictures, and he hurries...
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by Ouida
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016

The novel is about The Hon. Bertie Cecil or Beauty of the Brigades. In financial distress because of his own profligacy and the loss of an important horse-race on which he has bet extensively, and falsely accused of forgery, but unable to defend himself against the charge without injuring the "honour"...
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by John Charles Van Dyke
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016

The object of this series of text-books is to provide concise teachable histories of art for class-room use in schools and colleges. The limited time given to the study of art in the average educational institution has not only dictated the condensed style of the volumes, but has limited their scope...
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by E. T. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016

So far as I know, there has never yet been compiled, for the illustration of any collection of paintings whatever, a series of notes at once so copious, carefully chosen, and usefully arranged, as this which has been prepared, by the industry and good sense of Mr. Edward T. Cook, to be our companion...
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by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe...
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