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Collection of stories. According to Wikipedia: "Bret Harte (August 25, 1836[2] May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. He was born in Albany, New York. ... He moved to California in 1853, later working there in a number of capacities,...

A collection of 15 pictures (in black and white) with a portrait of the painter with Introduction and interpretation by Estelle Hurll. According to Wikipedia: "Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 23 February 1792) was an influential eighteenth-century English painter, specialising in portraits...

Recipes for salads, soups, main dishes, vegetable dishes, pancakes and fritters, doughnuts, sweets and rolls, cakes, cookies, pies, desserts, and sweets and sours. First published around 1900.  According to the preface.  "In 1683 the Plain Sects began to arrive in William Penn's Colony seeking a...

Classic western novel. According to Wikipedia: "Bret Harte (August 25, 1836[2] May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. He was born in Albany, New York. ... He moved to California in 1853, later working there in a number...

First published in 1922, written by a major-general, former chief of the ir staff. The introduction begins: " Since the earliest communities of human beings first struggled for supremacy and protection, the principles of warfare have remained unchanged. New methods have been evolved and adopted...

According to Wikipedia: "Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as history and especially as literature, although the biases of his work have met with criticism."

The extended essay on the role of the individual in history which Tolstoy appended to War and Peace, the result of his ruminations on the phenomenon of the the French Revolution and the Napoleonnic Wars.

Collection of articles, including The Agricultural Interest, Threatening Letter to Thomas Hood from an Ancient Gentleman, Crime and Education, Capital Punishment, The Spirit of Chivalry in Westminster Hall, In Memoriam--W. M. Thackeray, Adelaide Anne Procter, Chauncey Hare Townshend, and On Mr. Fechter's...

Shakespeare comedy translated to French by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787 - 1874), French historian, and statesman. Published in 1862. According to Wikipedia: "Twelfth Night; or, What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 160102 as a Twelfth Night's...

Advice, first published in 1856. "My interest in woman and our common humanity is my only apology for writing this book. I see multitudes of young women about me, whose general training is so deficient in all that pertains to the best ideas of life, and whose aims and efforts are so unworthy of their...

First published in 1916. The author explains "Having had some eight years' experience in designing, building, and flying aeroplanes, I have hopes that the practical knowledge I have gained may offset the disadvantage of a hand more used to managing the "joy-stick" than the dreadful haltings, the many...

Originally published by the CIA, as an unclassified public document. Douglas MacEachin served as CIA's Deputy Director for Intelligence from 1993 to 1995 during his thirty-two year career at CIA. Mr. MacEachin was an officer-in-residence at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, from 1995 to 1997, subsequently becoming a senior at the Kennedy School.

Volume 7 of 9, covering Palais to Puits. According to Wikipedia: "Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (27 January 1814 17 September 1879) was a French architect and theorist, famous for his interpretive "restorations" of medieval buildings. Born in Paris, he was a major Gothic Revival architect....

According to Wikipedia: "Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of À la recherche du temps perdu (in English, In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past), a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven parts from 1913 to 1927."