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Ch 2 - The Beginnings of Cartography, Part 2

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Francis Rolt-Wheeler


In The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 2: Geology

Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The second volume is on Geology written by Harold E. Slade and W. E. Ferguson. …

A-Roving

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Victor Daley


In At Dawn And Dusk

Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his pocke…

The Reading Man

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Thomas Frederick Young


In Canada and Other Poems

From the author's preface:I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in i…

The Blackberry Elf

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Mary Louisa Molesworth


In Five Minutes' Stories

This is a collection of short stories for children. Listeners may wish to have a look at the text at Project Gutenberg to see the many illus…

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 Coo-ee Reciter

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Various



Recitation was a vital part of the curriculum in education in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. It not only enabled students to gain practic…

Table 8 – Words with “ea” / “ee” (Long “e” Sound)

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James Hiram Fassett and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


In The Beacon Second Reader

In the "Beacon Second Reader" the author has chosen for his stories only those of recognized literary merit; and while it has been…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102

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Various



"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…

Reading a Letter

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D. H. Lawrence


In New Poems

This is an exceptional collection of superb and introspectively distinct poems from the pen of master author D. H. Lawrence. Never failing t…

Evocation

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Amado Nervo


In Selected Poems

Amado Nervo was a Mexican poet, novelist and diplomat. These poems were translated by Alice Stone Blackwell, Thomas Walsh and Ernest F. Luca…

Idem Latine Redditum

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E. L. Blanchard and George Murray


In Poems

George Murray was a British poet, translator and scholar who lived out most of his life in Canada, where he was a classics master at a Montr…

Writing a Book

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Myrtle Reed


In Threads of Grey and Gold

This is a collection of short stories and poems by Myrtle Reed. Many of the stories are short romances, and they share the unique, nostalgic…

Book IX - Cato, part 2

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Lucan


In Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars

Lucan's only surviving work, De Bello Civili, more generally known as the Pharsalia, is an epic poem about the civil war between Julius Caes…

Sonnet XXI - On Reading Spenser Again

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James Russell Lowell


In Early Poems

This is a volume of the early poems by James Russell Lowell, including a brief biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. - Summary by Caro…

021 - Reading Aloud

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Christopher Morley


In Chimneysmoke

A collection of short poems on various themes by the author. (Summary by Carmen H)

Presentiment

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Elfrida De Renne Barrow


In Selected Poems

Elfrida De Renne Barrow was an American poet and a curator of the Georgia Historical Society. These poems were published between 1922 and 19…

An Only Offer

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Amelia E. Barr


In Winter Evening Tales

This 1896 collection contains 17 short, Christian-oriented stories. “In these ‘Winter Evening Tales,’ Mrs. Barr has spread before her reader…

The Sentences

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Herbert Read


In English Prose Style

Read's book describes the basic elements of composition and rhetoric: narrative form, eloquence, rhythm, and other important elements of wha…

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