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Three Times and Out

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Nellie Mcclung

The true story of M. C. Simmons, a Canadian soldier captured by the German Army during the early days of World War I. We read of his sixteen…

Samuel the Seeker

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Upton Sinclair

What would happen to you if you tried to make your way in the world believing all the clear, simple things you had ever been taught growing …

A Preface to Politics

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Walter Lippmann

This is the first book in the bibliography of Walter Lippmann, written three years after emerging from Harvard where he studied under the pr…

In Times Like These

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Nellie Mcclung

"Believing that the woman's claim to a common humanity is not an unreasonable one, and that the successful issue of such claim rests pr…

Recollections of a Busy Life

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William Forwood

Liverpool in the second half of the 19th century was burgeoning with rich merchants and swollen with poor immigrants. It was known variously…

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In The Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor

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Elizabeth Louisa Gebhard

John Jacob Astor was pre-eminently the opener of new paths, a breaker of trails. From his first tramp alone through the Black Forest of Bade…

Have Faith in Massachusetts (excerpt)

In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 028

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Calvin Coolidge

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…

Henry Ward Beecher

In Hidden Treasures

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Harry A. Lewis

"Some succeed while others fail. This is a recognized fact; yet history tells us that seven-tenths of our most successful men began lif…

Character of the Problem

In Shakespeare Identified

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J. Thomas Looney

That one who is not a recognized authority or an expert in literature should attempt the solution of a problem which has so far baffled spec…

The Dog Gellert

In Curious Myths of the Middle Ages

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Sabine Baring-Gould

This volume is an example of Sabine Baring-Gould's extensive research into the middle ages. This volume of 12 curiosities was one of Baring-…