Social Science
Tea: Its Mystery and History
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Samuel Phillips Day
Samuel Phillips Day traces the history of tea from Asia to England, exploring some of the romance of this treasured drink and its place in B…
The Convivio
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Dante Alighieri
Convivio (The Banquet) is a work written by Dante Alighieri roughly between 1304 and 1307. This unfinished work of Dante consists of four tr…
The Night Side of New York
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Various
This nonfiction collection of sketches, by "members of the New York press," takes the reader on a tour of 1866 New York City after…
The Soul of London
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Ford Madox Ford
'Most of us love places very much as we may love what, for us, are the distinguished men of our social lives. [...] We are, all of us who ar…
Recollections of Imperial Russia
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Meriel Buchanan
In this memoir, Meriel Buchanan (9-5-1886 to 2-6-1959) links the history of Russia to powerful, lingering memories of her years living there…
The Business of Being a Woman
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Ida M. Tarbell
How were women's roles changing in the 1900's? Ida Tarbell explores this in a well written, witty and insightful series of essays. "T…
Supreme Cases from 1803-2018
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United States Supreme Court
These cases involved questions that came before the Supreme Court that needed answers. The questions in order of appearance in this project …
Following the Color Line
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Ray Stannard Baker
Subtitled "An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy", we are presented an in-depth and essentially non-opinionate…
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book III
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John Locke
This is the third book of John Locke's Essay on Human Understanding. Book I was Neither Principles Nor Ideas Are Innate. Book II was Of Idea…
Prejudices, First Series
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H. L. Mencken
Mencken sharpens his pen and in a collection of short essays delivers acerbic opinions on issues and persons of the time. Among his targets…
The Cruise of the Falcon - A Voyage to South America in a 30-Ton Yacht
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Edward Frederick Knight
In this fine sailing and exploring yarn, Edward Frederick Knight (1852-1925), sometime English barrister, journalist, sportsman, and amateur…
Greek Literature
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Henry Julius Wetenhall Tillyard
"The Greeks were the most intellectual people of the old world. … The study of Greek literature is therefore a proper element in a libe…
De l'Allemagne
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Madame Germaine De Staël
Toute l'érudition littéraire si variée et étendue, et les convictions politiques de Madame Germaine de Staë…
Marion Harland's Complete Etiquette
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Marion Harland and Virginia Terhune Van de Water
Haven't you always wondered how to properly accept a formal dinner invitation? Perhaps you have a débutante under your wing, in which…
On an Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara
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Samuel Gamble Bayne
This book gives a brief glimpse into the social history of Ireland in the early part of the 20th Century. During his 1902 tour through the n…
Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume II
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Albert Bigelow Paine
Until recently, this work has been considered the "go-to" bio of Mark Twain. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April 9, 1937) …
The Medicine-Men Of The Apache
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John Gregory Bourke
“Herewith I have the honor to submit a paper upon the paraphernalia of the medicine-men of the Apache and other tribes. Analogues have been …
Struggles and Triumphs, or Forty Years' of Recollections of P.T. Barnum, writte…
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P. T. Barnum
The 1873 edition of the autobiography of the founding genius of the "Greatest Show on Earth," P.T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum. It d…
The Red Reign: The True Story of an Adventurous Year in Russia
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Kellogg Durland
Kellogg Durland spent a year in Russia as a journalist in 1906, during a seminal period in Russian history. This is a highly interesting rea…
Save the Girls
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Mason Long
Save the Girls is an 1880 American anti-white-slavery book by reformed gambler Mason Long. In it, the author crusades against the social evi…