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The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
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Alfred Thayer Mahan
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History: 1660–1783 is a history of naval warfare written in 1890 by Alfred Thayer Mahan. It details the role…
Laws (version 2)
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Plato
Laws (Greek: Νόμοι) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having fail…
Cock-House at Fellsgarth
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Talbot Baines Reed
A classic English Public School story with all the usual suspects: unruly juniors, wise upper form boys, and an outcast. Summary by Von
The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane
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Alain René Lesage
Gil Blas is born in misery to a stablehand and a chambermaid of Santillana in Cantabria, and is educated by his uncle. He leaves Oviedo at t…
The Sikh Religion: Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 5
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Max Arthur Macauliffe
This is one of the first (and still one of the few) comprehensive books about the Sikh religion in the English language. MacAuliffe had exte…
Cleopatra
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Georg Ebers
The world knows the fate of the classic lovers Cleopatra and Mark Antony, so there is no need to announce a spoiler alert. Georg Ebers was a…
Monte-Cristo's Daughter
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Edmund Flagg
"Monte-Cristo's Daughter," a wonderfully brilliant, original, exciting and absorbing novel, is the Sequel to "The Count of Mo…
The Three Lieutenants
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William Henry Giles Kingston
A few years have passed since the adventures of Terence, Jack, and Alick as midshipmen in the British Navy. They have each gone on their pat…
Lady Jim of Curzon Street
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Fergus Hume
Faced with bankruptcy and trapped in an unhappy marriage, Lady Jim Kaims has to solve her problems alone. After every decent way fails her, …
The Chronicles of America Volume 01 - The Red Man's Continent
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Ellsworth Huntington
Characteristics of the peoples and environment of the earliest stages of America. - Summary by Jim LockeGroup: Chronicles of America Series
The Chronicles of America Volume 02 - The Spanish Conquerors
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Irving Berdine Richman
A discussion of the adventures of the Spanish explorers from Columbus to Pizarro. - Summary by Jim LockeGroup: Chronicles of America Series
Paul Clifford
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Most men who with some earnestness of mind examine into the mysteries of our social state will perhaps pass through that stage of self-educa…
The Chronicles of America Volume 03 - Elizabethan Sea-Dogs
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William Wood
Citizen, colonist, pioneer! These three words carry the history of the United States back to its earliest form in 'the New World called Amer…
Heroines of Fiction
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William Dean Howells
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
Transition
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Emma Francis Brooke
Honora Klaper is beautiful, distinguished, smart, and charming. A woman who turns heads. She is on an errand. No, it is not an errand to get…
The Chronicles of America Volume 04 - Crusaders of New France
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William Bennett Munro
The previous volumes in the Chronicles of America series placed Spain and England at the fore in the discovery and development of the New Wo…
The Chronicles of America Volume 05 - Pioneers of the Old South
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Mary Johnston
In this remarkably detailed and sweeping fifth installment, Mary Johnston takes us from discoveries and settlements to the evolution into th…
The Frozen North
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Richard Mayde
It is in this world that Mayde has created his fascinating The Frozen North: "Great as are the barren grounds, or tundri, as they are c…
Biography of an American Bondman, By His Daughter
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Josephine Brown
Josephine Brown's Biography of an American Bondsman faithfully follows the trajectory of her father's life as previously explored in his own…
Our Friend The Charlatan
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George Gissing
Dice Lashmore will do everything he can in in his quest to become rich. The key is, of course, finding a rich wife. This book describes his …