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Lost Leaders

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Andrew Lang


Andrew Lang, best beloved for his series of fairy books, has collected here essays on wide ranging topics from golf and shaving to Thackeray…

Reading: An Essay

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Hugh Walpole


A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales

The Ontario Readers: Third Book

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Various


The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary wo…

The Insect Folk

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Margaret Warner Morley


Through delightful outings with her students, a teacher introduces her class to the fascinating world of insects. She encourages her student…

Through Glacier Park, Seeing America First with Howard Eaton

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


This is about a three-hundred mile trip across the Rocky Mountains on horseback with Howard Eaton. It is about fishing, and cool nights arou…

A Brief History of English and American Literature

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Henry A. Beers


Henry Augustin Beers, native of Buffalo, NY and professor of English at Yale, with the help of John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Methodist bi…

Birds of the Air

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Arabella B. Buckley


Arabella Buckley had a great love of nature and wished to impart that love to children. Birds of the Air will encourage children to observe …

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…

Joseph Andrews

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Henry Fielding


"Joseph Andrews ... was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and indeed among the…

Writing Wrongly

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Thomas Corfield


When the worst writer in history self-publishes his books, the world of literature is decimated overnight. Illiteracy becomes something to a…

In the Wilderness (Version 2)

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Charles Dudley Warner


Warner’s main theme is how small and often-ridiculous the human being is when exploring in the wilderness. Warner’s love of nature and his c…

The Secret Garden (version 2)

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Frances Hodgson Burnett


Orphaned Mary Lennox is sent to live with her uncle in Yorkshire, and finds herself in a house full of secrets and mysteries.

Biltmore Oswald

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J. Thorne Smith, Jr.


The hilarious diary of a young man's recruitment into, and service in a navy, which, though well equipped and disciplined, remains woefully …

To The Lighthouse

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Virginia Woolf


The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book abou…

The Journal of a Disappointed Man

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W. N. P. Barbellion


The journal of British naturalist Bruce Frederick Cummings, spanning from his early childhood through to his early death from complications …

Barry Blake Of The Flying Fortress

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Gaylord Dubois


Gaylord DuBois wrote juvenile literature for decades. This is a boys' adventure story about serving in the American World War II flying cor…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 094

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Various


"Fine experience lies at one's own doorstep" writes Raymond S. Spears, suggesting that boating on the Mississippi River offers &qu…

Books Fatal to Their Authors

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Peter Hempson Ditchfield


This is a collection of stories of authors who have lost their fortunes and sometimes their lives after writing a book. The liberty of a per…

David and the Phoenix

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Edward Ormondroyd


David knew that one should be prepared for anything when one climbs a mountain, but he never dreamed what he would find that June morning on…

Stories by English Authors: London

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F. Anstey, J. M. Barrie, Marie Corelli, Beatrice Harraden, Arthur Morrison, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and Israel Zangwill


This book collects seven short stories by some of England's best turn-of-the-(last)-century's writers. The collection begins with the humor …

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