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Heroines of Fiction

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William Dean Howells


This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…

Cane

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Jean Toomer


Reading this book, I had a vision of a land, heretofore sunk in the mists of muteness, suddenly rising up into the eminence of song. Innume…

Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport

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Lawrence Perry


Newport, of course, means aristocratic families and naval adventures. In this tale, we wonder if the heiress will actually marry the Russian…

The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane

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Alain René Lesage


Gil Blas is born in misery to a stablehand and a chambermaid of Santillana in Cantabria, and is educated by his uncle. He leaves Oviedo at t…

The House of Mystery

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Richard Marsh


The House of Mystery is based upon the complicated plot involving two women who look exactly alike, one rich and one poor, and so mistaken i…

The Three Lieutenants

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William Henry Giles Kingston


A few years have passed since the adventures of Terence, Jack, and Alick as midshipmen in the British Navy. They have each gone on their pat…

The Chronicles of America Volume 03 - Elizabethan Sea-Dogs

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William Wood


Citizen, colonist, pioneer! These three words carry the history of the United States back to its earliest form in 'the New World called Amer…

Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence

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Alice Dunbar Nelson


It seems eminently fitting and proper in this year, the fiftieth anniversary of the Proclamation of Emancipation that the Negro should give …

The Inheritance

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Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier


"As the noblest attribute of man, family pride had been cherished time immemorial by the noble race of Rossville. Deep and incurable, t…

The Chronicles of America Volume 02 - The Spanish Conquerors

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Irving Berdine Richman


A discussion of the adventures of the Spanish explorers from Columbus to Pizarro. - Summary by Jim Locke Group: Chronicles of America Series

Our Friend The Charlatan

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George Gissing


Dice Lashmore will do everything he can in in his quest to become rich. The key is, of course, finding a rich wife. This book describes his …

Thomas Hobbes

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Alfred Edward Taylor


This work is a look at the life and ideas of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher of the seventeenth century. The most important ideas are fo…

Jess

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H. Rider Haggard


The setting for this novel is the Boer War in South Africa in 1880. This novel is interesting and exciting on several levels: there are com…

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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Anatole France


Noted historian sets out to locate and research a rare manuscript: the French version of -- "The Golden Legend" -- and meets the d…

The Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 6

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Max Arthur Macauliffe


This is one of the first (and still one of the few) comprehensive books about the Sikh religion in the English language. Macauliffe had exte…

Doctor Luttrell's First Patient

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Rosa Nouchette Carey


Doctor Markus Luttrell and his new wife Olivia, a former governess, are trying to start building their nest. Problems arise when doctor Lutt…

The Chronicles of America Volume 05 - Pioneers of the Old South

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Mary Johnston


In this remarkably detailed and sweeping fifth installment, Mary Johnston takes us from discoveries and settlements to the evolution into th…

The Chronicles of America Volume 09 - Colonial Folkways

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Charles Mclean Andrews and Charles Morris


This work according to the subtitle is "a chronicle of American life in the reign of the Georges." It describes land, locales, hou…

The Chronicles of America Volume 06 - The Fathers of New England

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Charles Andrews, Charles Mclean Andrews and Charles Morris


This sixth installment in the series, as one would expect, deals with events in the northern settlements that were taking place at the same …

Jesus Christ Had Negro Blood in His Veins

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W. L. Hunter


This short work attempts to establish that Jesus had black ancestry dating back to Ham, the son of Noah, who had been made black-skinned as …

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