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Recollections of Oscar Wilde

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Franz Blei


This 1906 collection of memories of Oscar Wilde is by friends. Wilde said that his genius was his life; only his talent was in his works. (S…

William The Conqueror

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Richmal Crompton


William is at it again. The world’s most chaos-creating and confident eleven year old boy. Thirteen more humorous stories in this 1926 col…

Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi

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William C. Everhart


In the American Civil War, the Vicksburg campaign (December 1862-July 1863) was a pivotal victory for the Union under the generalship of Uly…

Purity of Heart

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William Booth


William Booth, who co-founded The Salvation Army with his wife Catherine in 1865, wrote several books on the subject of holiness. Purity of …

Pope Adrian IV; An Historical Sketch

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Richard Raby


Pope Adrian IV (c. 1100-1159, pope 1154-1159) was the only English pope. Written by a Catholic in 1849, this biography of the pope appeare…

H.M.S. Pinafore; Or, The Lass That Loved A Sailor

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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…

Elsie And The Child; A Tale Of Riceyman Steps And Other Stories

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Arnold Bennett


Thirteen short stories (1924) by a master story teller of the early twentieth century. His writings, fiction and nonfiction, were popular wi…

Clergymen Of The Church Of England

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Anthony Trollope


This 1866 book was published in a time of great change in the Church of England. Trollope began as a High Church adherent and then worked h…

The Crimson Gardenia And Other Tales Of Adventure

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Rex Beach


Published in 1916, this book collects eleven stories originally published in several different magazines. Beach’s adventure stories were im…

Trivia (1917) And More Trivia (1921)

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Logan Pearsall Smith


Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) was an American-born British essayist who was known for his epigrams and aphorisms, often humorous. This re…

Mendelssohn And Certain Masterworks

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Herbert Francis Peyser


In the compass of the present pamphlet it is impossible to give more than a cursory survey of Mendelssohn’s happy but extraordinarily crowde…

Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance

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Ford Madox Ford


Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though…

Idle Hours In A Library

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William Henry Hudson


“[these essays on Shakespeare, Pepys, Restoration novels, and bohemianism]—the results of many hours of quiet but rather aimless browsing am…

The Best Church Hymns

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Louis Fitzgerald Benson


This 1898 book is the result of a survey of 107 hymn-books. The thirty-two hymns are ranked in order of popularity. The texts in this reco…

The Log Of A Sea-Waif: Being Recollections Of The First Four Years Of My Sea Li…

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Frank Thomas Bullen


The brilliant author of "The Cruise of the Cachalot" and "Idylls of the Sea" presents in this new work (1899) the contin…

Robert Schumann, Tone Poet Prophet And Critic

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Herbert Francis Peyser


[This is] the sketchiest outline of Robert Schumann’s short life but amazingly rich achievement. Together with Haydn and Schubert he was, pe…

The Prelude To Adventure

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Hugh Walpole


Olva Dune is a Cambridge undergraduate who commits a murder and at that moment feels the presence of God. In a tour de force Walpole noveliz…

Infamous Day: Marines At Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941

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Robert James Cressman and Robert J. Cressman


Historical overview and personal reminiscences published in 1992. Pearl Harbor attack 7 December 1941. Part of U.S. Government U.S. Marine…

Hugh Walpole: Selected Short Stories

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Hugh Walpole


Eleven short stories from The Windsor Magazine in the 1920s, Best British Short Stories of 1922, and Best British Short Stories of 1923. - S…

Sister Dolorosa

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James Lane Allen


A Carmelite convent in Kentucky in the nineteenth century. A beautiful immature nun. A handsome immature visitor. A chance meeting. Whither?…

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