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Crime: Its Cause and Treatment
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Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer. He remains notable for his wit and agnosticism, which marked him as one of the most famous American …
Grim Tales
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E. Nesbit
A collection of gentle stories that draw us into that hidden world where fear is just around the next corner, and where loving hands can tou…
The Fourth Dimension
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Charles Howard Hinton
"Mr Hinton tries to explain the theory of the fourth dimension so that the ordinary reasoning mind can get a grasp of what metaphysical…
Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (version 2)
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Bliss Carman
Sappho lived six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric poetry was peculiarly esteemed and cultivated at the centres of Greek life.…
London Labour and the London Poor Volume I
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Henry Mayhew
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…
Ketchup
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A. W. Bitting
The Bittings have written a number of books on canning and home preparation of food. This short volume includes a brief description of the p…
Dissertation on Oriental Gardening
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William Chambers
A little essay on the Chinese style of gardening, as opposed to the continental style, which the author finds too formal with too many strai…
The Rookeries of London
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Thomas Beames
Rev. Thomas Beames (1815 – 1864) was a preacher at St. James, Westminster in London. He compiled his own eye-witness accounts of the most no…
The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
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H. G. Wells
A collection of Wells' short stories, with a short introductory essay by the author- "Essentially it is a miscellany of inventions, man…
Phallic Worship
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Hargrave Jennings
A fairly scholarly, short survey of religious sexual symbols and practices from ancient times to the near-present, and within various countr…
On the Preparations of the Indian Hemp
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William Brooke O'Shaughnessy
The author investigated the uses of cannabis resin as an anticonvulsant and relaxant in cases of tetanus, cholera, and infantile convulsions…
Neighbourhood – A Year’s Life in and About an English Village (version 2)
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Tickner Edwardes
Tickner Edwardes (properly Edward Tickner Edwardes) served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during WWI and later became the vicar of the West…
Underground London
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John Hollingshead
From the Preface: "This book contains an account, more or less readable, of most things belonging to "Underground London", pa…
Wonderful London
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William James Mcglothlin
"Wonderful London, its lights and shadows of humour and sadness". (That's the full title of the book.) A collection of short essay…
The Book of the Cheese
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Thomas Wilson Reid
"Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese" is a pub on Fleet Street, London. It was rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666, and has been frequented …
The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict.
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Thomas Archer
"Bare, unpicturesque, and sordid as are the conditions of poverty, there are sights in London which everybody may and should see - sigh…
Man and Maid
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E. Nesbit
A collection of the author's short stories for adults, with some supernatural ones. - Summary by Peter Yearsley
Salome and the Head
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E. Nesbit
Edmund Templar is visiting some relatives before being shipped off to the war in South Africa. Wandering in the New Forest, he encounters a …
The Stoneground Ghost Tales, Version 2
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Edmund Gill Swain
A collection of gentle ghost stories set around a church by the fens in East Anglia. The author was an associate of Montague Rhodes James, …