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The Tale of Three Lions

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H. Rider Haggard


Taking place in the heart of Africa, “The Tale of Three Lions” is one more thrilling adventure from the eventful life of old hunter Quaterma…

A Book of Discovery

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M. B. Synge


Telling the history of geographical discoveries, "Book of Discovery" is a record of splendid endurance, of hardships bravely borne…

A Short History of the World

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H. G. Wells


A Short History of the World is a non-fictional historic work by English author H. G. Wells, largely inspired by Wells's earlier 1919 work T…

Heroes of the Middle Ages

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Eva March Tappan


"The object of this book is to bring together stories of the most important movements in the history of Europe during the Middle Ages, …

Lāčplēsis

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Andrejs Pumpurs


Lāčplēsis is an epic poem by Andrejs Pumpurs, a Latvian poet, who wrote it between 1872-1887 based on local legends. Lāčplēsis is regarded a…

North-Pole Voyages

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Zachariah Atwell Mudge


For more than three hundred years an intense desire has been felt by explorers to discover and reveal to the world the secrets of the immed…

Preface, Introduction

In History of the Christian Church During the First Six Centuries

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S. Cheetham and Samuel Cheetham


The intention of this work is to provide a sketch of the History of the Church in the first six centuries of its existence, resting througho…

Am 6. December

In Der Chancellor

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Jules Verne


Der Chancellor ist eines von Jules Vernes ungewöhnlichsten Werken. Es erzählt vom Untergang eines Schiffes in Form eines Tagebuche…

Book 2, Preface – Chapter 2

In Against Heresies

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Irenaeus


St. Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, describes several schools of Gnosticism which were prevalent among pre-Nicene Christianity. He then refutes t…

VII On the Races of Man pt.2

In The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Part 1

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Charles Darwin


A book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great book on evolutiona…

02 - Partition 2, Section 1, Member 2

In The Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 2

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Robert Burton


The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burto…

Excerpts from History of the United States, part 2

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 03

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Charles Dudley Warner, ed. and George Bancroft


The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

59 - In which it is shown that under the most trying

In Twenty Years After

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Alexandre Dumas


Let's continue the D'Artagnan Romances that we've already started with The Three Musketeers.