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Bill Nye


"The range of subjects treated in this book is wonderful, even to me. It is a library of universal knowledge, and the facts contained i…

The Mountebank

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William John Locke


Andrew Lackaday, an English orphan, was born and brought up in a French circus. He becomes a highly skilled mimic and juggler. He plies his …

Biografías breves

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Washington Irving


Washington Irving (1783-1859) Escritor estadounidense. Nació el 3 de abril de 1783 en Nueva York. Cursó estudios de …

Riallaro: The Archipelago of Exiles

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Godfrey Sweven


John Macmillan Brown was born in New Zealand and a University professor, wrote under the pseudonym Godfrey Sweven. An excerpt from the Int…

Seed Thoughts

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Joseph Caryl


There is a work which few men possess, and which we are assured that no man alive ever ventured to read through. It is in two mighty folios,…

English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the Englis…

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William J. Long


This book, which presents the whole splendid history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era, has thr…

Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One


Peter Millican


Dr Peter Millican gives a series of lectures looking at Scottish 18th Century Philosopher David Hume and the first book of his Treatise of H…

Companionable Books

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Henry van Dyke


Many books are dry and dusty, there is no juice in them; and many are soon exhausted, you would no more go back to them than to a squeezed o…

A Treatise Of Human Nature, Volume 1

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David Hume


This book, published in two volumes called "books" by the author, is a treatment of everything from the origin of our ideas to how…

Putting the Most Into Life

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Booker T. Washington


The chapters in this little book were originally part of a series of Sunday Evening Talks given by the Principal to the students of the Tusk…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 083

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Various


“Oh, mother, I would like to know everything.” “You can never know everything, my child, but you can learn many things from books.” Accordin…

The Outcast

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For many nineteenth-century Christians, the new biological and geological discoveries of that era brought on severe crises of faith. Winwood…

Andrew the Glad (Dramatic Reading)

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Maria Thompson Daviess


"There are some women who will brew mystery from the decoction of even a very simple life. Matilda is one of them, remarked the major t…

Ultima Thule

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Dallas Mccord Reynolds and Mack Reynolds


Ronny Bronston has dreamed all his life of getting a United Planets job that would take him off-world. He finally gets the opportunity when …

The House on the Borderland

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William Hope Hodgson


In 1877, two gentlemen, Messrs Tonnison and Berreggnog, head into Ireland to spend a week fishing in the village of Kraighten. While there, …

The Beautiful and Damned

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F. Scott Fitzgerald


This novel tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune; the relationship with his wife Gl…

Unaddressed Letters

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Frank Athelstane Swettenham, Anonymousandfrank Athelstane Swettenham and William James Mcglothlin


“I had a friend who loved me;” but he has gone, and the “great gulf” is between us. After his death, I received a packet of manuscript with …

Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family


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University of Oxford Podcasts

Cuentos de la Alhambra

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Washington Irving


Colección de ensayos e historias del viaje que Washington Irving realizó en 1828 a Granada, acompañado por el guí…

As in a Mirror

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Pansy


A wealthy and successful author, John Stuart King is preparing to write his next book, which includes a homeless tramp. He has done all the …

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