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The Celebrity

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Winston Churchill


Satirizes the rise of a young novelist (thought to be Richard Harding Davis, but denied as such by Churchill). - Summary by Joseph Tabler

The Lost Art of Reading

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Gerald Stanley Lee


Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…

Bunker Bean

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Harry Leon Wilson


Young, self conscious, timid stenographer for a New York businessman with a beautiful daughter (the flapper). He emulates stronger types, bu…

Dr. Johnson

In Where No Fear Was: A Book About Fear

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Arthur Christopher Benson


Surely all of us know fear, and know the different types of fear we can experience. In this book, Arthur Christopher Benson walks us through…

Appendix: List of Murders

In Brown Book of the Hitler Terror

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Dudley Leigh Aman Marley


The Brown Book was the first English publication to detail events which were currently happening in occupied Germany in 1933; book-burning a…

Coursing the Prongbuck

In American Big-Game Hunting

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Theodore Roosevelt


The first book published by The Boone and Crockett Club founded by Theodore Roosevelt and George Grinnell, who declared in their Editors Not…

Sketch 12 - The First Lesson

In Modern Monologues

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Marjorie Benton Cooke


The monologue is a character study in little; the apotheosis of a chosen individuality. All the little studies in this book have stood the t…

The Fairy Wicket

In Pagan Papers

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Kenneth Grahame


We join our thoughtful author on a dreamy stroll at dusk through the English countryside, and listen to his nonchalant, slightly scattered m…

19. 4.5 Second Star Route Trial, Closing Address, Part 5

In The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 10 - Legal

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Robert G. Ingersoll


For those who like courtroom drama, here are Ingersoll’s Opening and Closing arguments on the most famous trials of his career--the Star Rou…

Letter 47 Mowbray

In Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 6

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Samuel Richardson


It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, It is generally regarded as Richardson'…

Chapter 5

In A Book of Whales

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Frank Evers Beddard


A Book of Whales is a natural history of whales for the layman. - Summary by A. Gramour

Oudenarde

In In the Irish Brigade: A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain

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G. A. Henty


In this adventure story by the novelist and war correspondent, G.A. Henty, Desmond Kennedy, a young Irishman flees political oppression and …

To the Same

In Selected Letters of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal

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Saint Jane Frances De Chantal


Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572 – 1641) is a Roman Catholic Saint, who founded The Congregation of the Visitation after the death of her…

Chapter XXXVI, The Pall Mall Gazette

In The History of Pendennis

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William Makepeace Thackeray


In Pendennis, William Makepeace Thackeray skillfully shows the coming of age of Arthur Pendennis, a young gentleman trying to make his way i…

Chapter I

In The Wit of Women

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Kate Sanborn


It is refreshing to find an unworked field all ready for harvesting.While the wit of men, as a subject for admiration and discussion, is now…

Dempsey vs. Carpentier

In Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned

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Christopher Morley


Chrisopher Morley was an American literary luminary whose prolific writings included novels, essays, poetry, plays and great journalistic ou…

Ch.22 - The Palms

In Among the Trees at Elmridge

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Ella Rodman Church


"On that bright spring afternoon when three happy, interested children went off to the woods with their governess to take their first l…

Chapter 10 - A Central Bank to be Bought?

In U.S. Money vs. Corporation Currency, "Aldrich plan."

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Alfred Owen Crozier


In 1908, the National Monetary Commission was established by Congress to study financial boom-and-bust cycles. Senator Nelson Aldrich (Repub…