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Louisa Lawson
Louisa Lawson, the mother of Australian writer Henry Lawson, was the founder, publisher and editor of an early feminist journal in Sydney na…
Tributes
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Col. Ingersoll, a renowned trial lawyer and known as "the Great Agnostic", was one of the most sought after Toastmasters of his da…
Yanks - A.E.F. Verse from WWI
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Various
Introduced by Stars and Stripes editor, John T. Winterich (1891-1970) this is a compilation of poetry by members of the American Expeditiona…
The Fringe of an Art
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Vernon Blackburn
A collection of essays on things musical by Vernon Blackburn, including composers, music in different time periods, and modern music. (Summ…
The Crystal Pointers
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Frank W. Boreham
Frank W. Boreham was a Baptist preacher from England who spent many years in New Zealand and Australia, but also traveled extensively in the…
Plum Pudding
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Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley: A modern humorist with the tang of an Elizabethan. Plum Pudding: Thus Mr. Morley entitles his new volume, in which he ha…
Essays Collection
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Various
Here are 20 essays by various authors, covering all kinds of subjects. Some are famous, others are gems ferreted out from chapters or passag…
The Crisis
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W. E. B. Du Bois
The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerci…
State of the Union Addresses
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Harry S. Truman
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…
Short Nonfiction Collection
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Various
"A legendary island in the Atlantic Ocean, first mentioned by Plato", is how the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica descr…
Orion Clemens
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Fred W. Lorch
Orion Clemens (July 17, 1825 – December 11, 1897) was the first and only Secretary of the Nevada Territory. His younger brother Samuel Langh…
Editorials from The Dial magazine
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Martyn Johnson
Editorials published in Volume 66 of The Dial magazine, a fortnightly political and literary review. The source available to us features iss…
On Reading The Bible
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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
These are three lectures (numbers 8, 9, 10) excerpted from the author’s 1920 book On The Art Of Reading. The lectures were delivered to stu…
The Crisis
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W. E. B. Du Bois
The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerci…
Shadowland
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Various
Shadowland was an American monthly magazine about art, dance, and film published from 1919 to 1923 before being absorbed by Motion Picture C…
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 Honour of the Gout
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Philander Misaurus
This droll and 'enflammatory' pamphelet doth be a grondebreaking worke of musing upon a great aflicktion of Man, upon the better nature of t…
Seen on the Stage
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Clayton Hamilton
A fourth collection of essays on theatre by American critic Clayton Hamilton, intended as a suffix to his earlier works, The Theory of the T…
Short Nonfiction Collection
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Various
"Can we solve the problems confronting us? Well, the answer is an unequivocal and emphatic yes." This quote, from U.S. President R…
The Home of the Echoes
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Frank W. Boreham
Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of edi…