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Pining for a stiff dose of classic Western humor? Dive into Wolfville Nights from author Alfred Henry Lewis. This loosely intertwined connection of yarns, legends, episodes and escapades is packed with local color and will leave you…
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First published in 1917, advice which was seriously meant at the time it was written can now be read as humor. As explained in the Foreword: "WOMAN AS DECORATION is intended as a sequel to "The Art of Interior Decoration" (Grace Wood…
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Helen Miller Fraser later Helen Moyes (14 September 1881 – 2 December 1979) was a Scottish suffragist, feminist, educationalist and Liberal Party politician who later moved to Australia. During the Great War she worked as a Commissioner…
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First published in 1907. According to the Preface: "Among the Latin races, the French race differs essentially in one characteristic which has been the key to the success of French women—namely, the social instinct. The whole…
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First published in 1907. According to the Preface: "What, then, must have been the task of the author of the present volume, in essaying to write of the women of Italy and Spain! In neither of these countries are the people all of the…
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Anna Bartlett Warner was an American writer, the author of several books, and of poems set to music as hymns and religious songs for children.
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Accounts of personal contacts with well-known authors. Chapters include: Thackeray, Hawthorne, Dickens, Wordsworth, and Miss Mitford. According to Wikipedia: "James Thomas Fields (December 31, 1817 – April 24, 1881) was an…
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Paul had just come in to dress for dinner; he sank into a chair, weak in the knees, and clasped his head in his hands. It was to be worse than jail, even; the tepid waters of Cordelia Street were to close over him finally and forever.…
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Yule-Tide in Many Lands tells the story about the Christmas celebration in different countries around the world: Yule-Tide of the Ancients Yule-Tide in England Yule-Tide in Germany Yule-Tide in Scandinavia Yule-Tide in Russia Yule-Tide…
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William Morris was a 19th century British novelist best known for helping pioneer the fantasy genre.
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Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish author who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. With classics such as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson is…
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J.E. Hutton was an English minister and Christian writer. Hutton's best known work is his book A History of the Moravian Church which was published in 1909. A table of contents is included.
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Here are two of Harte's finest, from 1886 and 1887. First, a gardener for a small mining settlement is the one to strike it rich. Next, a small mining town in Devil's Spur grows too quickly for the older inhabitants to bear.
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A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA) by Lucy Larcom
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A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a History of His Brigade by William Dobein James
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced…
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Classic western. According to Wikipedia: "Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 – July 21, 1938) was an American writer and "Father" of western fiction."
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A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by R. B. Cunninghame Graham
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Richard Harding Davis was born in Philadelphia on April 18, 1864, but, so far as memory serves me, his life and mine began together several years later in the three-story brick house on South Twenty-first Street, to which we had just…
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First published during World War I. The book begins: "It is a curious circumstance that an invention, which is hailed as being one of the greatest achievements ever recorded in the march of civilisation, should be devoted essentially to…
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Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original-text editions include the following visual enhancements to foster a deeper understanding of the work: Word Clouds at the start of each chapter…
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Almayer's Folly was Conrad's first novel, set in a remote Bornean outpost at the end of the 19th century. Conrad draws on his own experience to present the strains of life at a cultural crossroads. The Dutch trader, Almayer, is stranded…
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