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The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln

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Francis Fisher Browne


This detailed biography covers the places in Lincoln's life: Indiana, Illinois, Washington. It also traces his various roles as storekeeper,…

Night Watches

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W. W. Jacobs


A most popular Jacobs character, a night watchman along the English coast, remembers troubles his friends got into during shore leave. At le…

Stories from the Faerie Queen

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Edmund Spenser


A major work by Spenser, The Faerie Queen, was published between 1590 and 1596. As an allegorical work, it can be read on many levels. Accor…

Auguste Comte and Positivism

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John Stuart Mill


Part 1 lays out the framework for Positivism as originated in France by Auguste Comte in his Cours de Philosophie Positive. Mill examines th…

The New Atlantis

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Francis Bacon and Sir Francis Bacon


In 1623, Francis Bacon expressed his aspirations and ideas in New Atlantis. Released in 1627, this was his creation of an ideal land where p…

The Phantom Town Mystery

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Grace May North


Two girls from the East, out on a horseback ride in the mountains of Arizona, find a house in the mountains. The house's history reveals tha…

The Monastery

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Sir Walter Scott


Dame Elspeth is kept in a tower after the death of her husband. The widow of the Baron of Avenel and her daughter seek safety with Elspeth i…

Under the Witches' Moon

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Nathan Gallizier


The scene is Rome, 935 A.D. Thirty-year-old Tristan, dressed as a pilgrim, overhears a conversation between Basil, the Grand Chamberlain, an…

The Life and Adventures of Venture

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Venture Smith


Venture Smith was an African captured as a child and transported to the American colonies to be sold as a slave. As an adult, he purchased h…

The Delafield Affair

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Florence Finch Kelly


New Mexico's hot, dry winds are taking their toll: cattle suffer long treks to get food and water. But it is not just a hard time for them. …

Aces Up

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Covington Clarke


A crack American flying troop has been sent to France, where they await further instructions. They are concerned that their extensive talent…

The Real Latin Quarter

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Frank Berkeley Smith


"Cocher, drive to the rue Falguière"--this in my best restaurant French.The man with the varnished hat shrugged his shoulde…

Prefatory Note, and The Little White Chicken

In The Stories Polly Pepper Told to the Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown Ho…

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Margaret Sidney


Polly Pepper loves to tell stories, but there just isn't enough room in the other books to include her stories! So, since "the author h…

Part 3, chapter 7

In A Raw Youth

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Arkady Dolgoruky, is a 19-year-old intellectual. He is the illegitimate son of a landowner and dreams to become rich. In his quest to fulfi…

Chapter 16 Part 1 of Concerning the Formation of the Rational Mind and Concerni…

In The Soul or Rational Psychology

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Emanuel Swedenborg


Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772, was born in Stockholm, Sweden and died in London, England. He was a voluminous writer of scientific treatise…

A Dissertation on Fairies Part 1

In Folk-lore and legends: English

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Charles John Tibbits


The old English Folklore Tales are fast dying out. The simplicity of character necessary for the retaining of old memories and beliefs is be…

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