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A Christmas Miscellany 2018

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Various


Sixteen Christmas stories or essays. (David Wales)

Stories of the Ships

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Lewis R. Freeman


While most associate the "Great War" with trenches, barbed wire, machine guns, and poison gas, ships played roles in the military …

A Study Of Army Camp Life During American Revolution

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Mary Hazel Snuff


Housing, Food, Clothing, Health, Sanitation, Recreation, Religion, Duties, Discipline. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the req…

Myths and Legends of Alaska (version 2)

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Katharine Berry Judson


The myths in this 1911 volume are authentic. The original collections were made by government ethnologists. Only the quaintest and purest o…

Mademoiselle Ixe

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Mary Elizabeth Hawker


This is a story by the English writer Mary Elizabeth Hawker (1848-1908) entitled Mademoiselle Ixe, by[pseudonym] Lanoe Falconer. The manuscr…

On Grace And Free Will

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Saint Augustine of Hippo


There are some persons who suppose that the freedom of the will is denied whenever God's grace is maintained, and who on their side defend t…

The Pirates Of Penzance; Or The Slave Of Duty (Version 2)

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W. S. Gilbert


In this recording, one person reads the entire play, all parts, including the stage directions. Even without the support of Arthur Sullivan’…

Christmas Stories from French and Spanish Writers

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Pedro Antonio De Alarcón Y Ariza


Fifteen short stories by Antoinette Ogden from French and Spanish writers of many times. - Summary by david wales

The Pentecost of Calamity

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Owen Wister


Nonfiction. Appalled by the savagery of World War I, Owen Wister in 1915 published an attempt to move the United States out of neutrality in…

The Thirteen Travelers

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Hugh Walpole


The year is 1919 and peace has sprung upon the world after the unspeakable carnage of World War I. The place is Hortons, a building of expen…

Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes Of The Civil War

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Various


Seven narratives published in the late nineteenth century and assembled in this 1913 collection. - Summary by david wales

The American Far West: Seven Mid-Nineteenth Century Views From Abroad

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Various


Charles Dickens started and edited a magazine called All The Year Round, a weekly collection of articles on a wide variety of topics. An an…

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 …

Gossip In The First Decade Of Victoria's Reign

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John Ashton


"I have written this Gossip not only for the edification of those to whom a portion, more or less, may be news, but for those who, like…

Saunterings In And About London

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Max Schlesinger and Max Schlesingertranslated Byotto Von Wenckstern


A witty 1853 travelogue by a cultured German for his countrymen. “…for I did not write for an English public, nor did I ever pretend to popu…

A Child's Book of the Garden: The Things in Our Garden

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Arthur Ransome


This book is part of the author’s "Nature Books For Children" series (three books), which is probably the best indication of its t…

The Pilgrimage Of Etheria

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Etheria


This (probably) late fourth century common era (A.D.) narrative of a Christian pilgrimage is the earliest such text which survives to us. It…

Tschaikovsky And His Orchestral Music

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Louis Biancolli


Included in this little book are analyses and backgrounds of most of Tschaikowsky’s standard concert music. A short sketch of Tschaikowsky’s…

And Thus He Came

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Cyrus Townsend Brady


These short stories, perhaps we might call them modern parables, are not the usual fare of warm and fuzzy Christmas stories (pleasing as tho…

The Private Soldier Under Washington

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Charles Knowles Bolton


Much was been written about the American Revolution, but our knowledge of the private solders of the patriot army is confined chiefly to Was…

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