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Cover of The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, the 1893 three-volume set in a single file
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., (August 29, 1809 October 7, 1894) was an American physician and professor who also achieved fame as a writer. During his lifetime, he was one of the best regarded poets of the 19th century and is considered a member of the Fireside Poets."
Cover of The Eugenic Marriage, a personal guide to the new science of better living and better babies, volume 3 of 4 (1913)
by W. Grant Hague
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

"Despite the fact that much has been written during the past two or three years with reference to Eugenics, it is quite evident to any one interested in the subject that the average intelligent individual knows very little about it so far as its scope and intent are concerned. This is not to be wondered...
Cover of The Eugenic Marriage, a personal guide to the new science of better living and better babies, volume 1 of 4 (1913),
by W. Grant Hague
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

First published in 1916. "Despite the fact that much has been written during the past two or three years with reference to Eugenics, it is quite evident to any one interested in the subject that the average intelligent individual knows very little about it so far as its scope and intent are concerned....
Cover of The Eugenic Marriage, a personal guide to the new science of better living and better babies, volume 4 of 4 (1913)
by W. Grant Hague
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

"Despite the fact that much has been written during the past two or three years with reference to Eugenics, it is quite evident to any one interested in the subject that the average intelligent individual knows very little about it so far as its scope and intent are concerned. This is not to be wondered...
Cover of The Eugenic Marriage, a personal guide to the new science of better living and better babies, volume 2 of 4 (1913)
by W. Grant Hague
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

"Despite the fact that much has been written during the past two or three years with reference to Eugenics, it is quite evident to any one interested in the subject that the average intelligent individual knows very little about it so far as its scope and intent are concerned. This is not to be wondered...
Cover of Governess Novels: Jane Eyre, Vanity Fair, The Turn of the Screw, and The Governess
by Charlotte Bronte, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The full text of four classic novels: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Vanity Fair by Thackeray, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, and The Governess by Sarah Fielding (sister of Henry Fielding).
Cover of Stories by Foreign Authors: German, volume 1
by Paul Heyse, Lindau, Rudolph
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This collection includes: The Fury by Paul Heyse, The Philosopher's Pendulum by Rudolph Lindau, The Bookbinder of Hort by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, The Egyptian Fire-Eater by Rudolph Baumbach, and Adventures of a New-Year's Eve by Heinrich Zschokke. According to Wikipedia: "Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse...
Cover of Round-About Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy
by Stockton, Frank
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015

According to Wikipedia: "Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. Stockton avoided the didactic moralizing, common...
Cover of The Story of a China Cat
by Hope, Laura Lee
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015

According to Wikipedia: "Laura Lee Hope is a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for the Bobbsey Twins and several other series of children's novels. Actual writers taking up the pen of Laura Lee Hope include Edward Stratemeyer, Howard and Lilian Garis, Elizabeth Ward, Harriet (Stratemeyer) Adams,...
Cover of Three Short Works
by Gustave Flaubert
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This book includes The Dance of Death, The Legend of Saint-Julian the Hospitalier, and A Simple Soul. According to Wikipedia: "Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 May 8, 1880) was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel,...
Cover of The Outcry
by Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic Henry James novel. According to Wikipedia: "Henry James, (1843 1916), son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born British author. He is one of the key figures of 19th century literary realism; the...
Cover of Hung Lou Meng or The Dream of the Red Chamber, 18th century Chinese novel
by Cao Xueqin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Dream of the Red Chamber (also Red Chamber Dream, Hung Lou Meng or A Dream of Red Mansions), originally The Story of the Stone (literally "Record of the Rock"), is a masterpiece of Chinese literature and one of the Chinese Four Great Classical Novels. It was composed in the mid...
Cover of Joy, a Play on the Letter "I", a three-act play
by John Galsworthy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Three-act play. According to Wikipedia: "John Galsworthy ( 1867— 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906—1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932."
Cover of Six Short Plays
by John Galsworthy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This collection includes: The First and Last, The Little Man, Hall-Marked, Defeat, The Sun, and Punch and Go. According to Wikipedia: "John Galsworthy ( 1867— 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906—1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
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