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The Blue Review was a short lived monthly journal published in London between May and July 1913. The successor to Rhythm, The Blue Review wa…

Art in Australia, No. 2, 1917

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Various

In 1916, three prominent identities in the Sydney art world - Sydney Ure Smith, Bertram Stevens and Charles Lloyd Jones - got together to pu…

Venice

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Mortimer Menpes and Dorothy Menpes

Following his assignment to South Africa as Black and White Magazine's war artist, Mortimer Menpes travelled extensively, becoming the artis…

The Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District

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Nikolai Leskov

In Mzinsk, a remote Russian town, adultery is Katerina's relief from boredom. Before long she has developed a passion for he lover, Sergei, …

Little Johannes

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Frederik van Eeden and Frederik Van Eeden

In this allegory of childhood and youth, a series of increasingly sinister mentors - Windekind, Wistik, Pluizer and Dr. Cypher - guide the a…

Poems by Charles Harpur

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Charles Harpur

Charles Harpur was arguably the first major Australia-born poet, best known for Australia-themed poems such as 'The Kangaroo Hunt' and the '…

The Festive Wreath

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Various

The Festive Wreath, edited by John Bolton Rogerson, and subtitled 'A Collection of Contributions Read at a Literary Meeting Held in Manchest…

The Hound of the Baskervilles

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

What really killed Sir Charles Baskerville? Is his nephew, Sir Henry, in danger from the legendary family curse, a gigantic black hound? She…

A Study in Scarlet

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet, a short novel published in 1887, was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story. At the beginning of the book…

Riders of the Purple Sage

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Zane Grey

The year is 1871, and wealthy ranch owner Jane Withersteen is in trouble. She has incurred the displeasure of her Mormon church leaders by …

The Book of Dragons

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E. Nesbit

A dragon who flies out of a magical book; one whose purr quiets a fussy baby; another who eats an entire pack of tame hunting-hippopotomuses…

The Death of Ivan Ilyitch

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Leo Tolstoy

The Death of Ivan Ilyitch is the story of a socially ambitious middle-aged judge who contracts an unexplained and untreatable illness. As I…

Selected Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ranging in tone from humor to sentimentality, these stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald are set against a backdrop of jazz, flappers, and the cha…

Bowser the Hound

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Thornton W. Burgess

Old Man Coyote craftily leads Bowser the hound away from home, and Bowser gets lost. Will Bowser find his way back to Farmer Brown's? Will R…

A Diary from Dixie

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Mary Chesnut

Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, a well-educated South Carolina woman who was married to a Confederate general, kept extensive journals during th…

The Day Boy and the Night Girl

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George MacDonald

A boy named Photogen, who has never seen the moon, meets a girl named Nycteris, who has never seen the sun. The two of them must escape from…

Mother West Wind's Children

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Thornton W. Burgess

"You can't fool old Mother Nature. No, Sir, you can't fool old Mother Nature, and it's of no use to try." The animals of the Gree…

Old Mother West Wind

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Thornton W. Burgess

Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 – June 5, 1965) was a conservationist and author of children's stories. He loved the beauty of natu…

United States Constitution and Amendments

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United States Government and Unit

The Constitution is the charter of government and the supreme law of the United States of America. It was signed by delegates to the Constit…

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