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Donal Grant

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George MacDonald


After leaving home in search of work, Donal Grant accepts a position as tutor to a young boy who lives in a sprawling castle, which also hou…

Malcolm

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George MacDonald


Malcolm MacPhail has lived, for all of his twenty or so years, in a fishing village on the north coast of Scotland. He lives with his grandf…

Little Miss Grasshopper

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Johanna Spyri


The Feland family go on a holiday in Switzerland. While there, their impulsive younger daughter gets into a scrape that teaches the whole fa…

Dymer

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C. S. Lewis


This is a narrative poem written by C.S. Lewis, begun in his teen years and published when he was a tutor at Oxford. It appeared in print un…

The Marquis of Lossie

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George MacDonald


This book is the sequel to Malcolm.Having now learned the truth of his own parentage, and some important facts regarding the birth of his la…

The coming of the pilgrims (1620), by William Elliot Griffis

In The World’s Story Volume XII: The United States

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Eva March Tappan


This is the twelfth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March …

Preface and Introduction

In The Greater Life and Work of Christ

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Alexander Patterson


It will be seen at a glance that this is not a life of Christ in the usual sense. It is not a review of the events of the earthly existence …

The Worlds Need

In Aggressive Christianity: Practical Sermons

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Catherine Booth


Catherine Booth was very much partner with her husband, William Booth, in founding the little London mission that would flourish into the gl…

Moss Animals

In The Living Animals of the World, Volume 2

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Various


The Living Animals of the Natural world, subtitled "a popular Natural History", proposed to present the most updated version of th…

Letters 25-26

In The Power of Sympathy; or, the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth

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William Hill Brown


The Power of Sympathy was the first American novel, published in Boston in January 1789. An epistolary novel, it tells the tragic story of t…

By Way of Introduction

In 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…

Introductory Material

In The Invalid's Hymn Book

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Harriet Kiernan


"The following selection of Hymns has been made for the use of persons in great bodily weakness. … The present object is to afford, in …

Introduction

In Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences

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John Mason Neale


This book is a collection of English translations of medieval Latin hymns. It contains interesting historical and/or liguistic facts about e…

Golden Rule Number 1: Avoid unnecessary details.

In The Art of Conversation: Twelve Golden Rules

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Josephine Turck Baker


Many of us find it challenging to speak to other people, for various reasons. Some of us are afraid of being called a bore. Others are worri…