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A Moral Alphabet in Words of from One to Seven Syllables

In Soup of Alphabets, Volume 002

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Hilaire Belloc


A second helping of Alphabet Books! This collection has a wide-ranging variety of short books, and not only for younger readers, but also fo…

Pigs is Pigs

In Young Adults Short Works Collection Vol. 001

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Ellis Parker Butler


LibriVox’s Young Adults Short Story Collection 001: a collection of 9 short works of Young Adult fiction in the public domain read by a grou…

19th Century

In The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé

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Harry Houdini


"A complete exposé of the modus operandi of fire eaters, heat resisters, poison eaters, venomous reptile defiers, sword swallowe…

Bk 5 Ch 4: Niccolo Piccinino, in concert with the duke of Milan, deceives the p…

In History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 2

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Niccolò Machiavelli


History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy is an historical account by Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527). Toward the end of 1520, …

22 - Chapter IX - The Conservation of Archaic Traits, Part Three

In The Theory of the Leisure Class

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Thorstein Veblen


Originally published by the Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen while he was a professor at the University of Chicago in 1898, the…

Chapter IV

In The Journal of Lewis and Clarke (1840)

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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and Meriwether Lewis


"The expedition of Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, for exploring the river Missouri, and the best communication from that to the Pacific Ocea…

13 - Tarragon - Turnip

In The Family Kitchen Gardener

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Robert Buist


The Family Kitchen Gardener contains plain and accurate descriptions (ca 1847) of all the different species and varieties of specifically Am…

Lugubrious Whing-Whang, The

In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 09

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James Whitcomb Riley


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the ninth volume, 37 short stories and poems have been gathered from 31 authors…

Nevada Sketches

In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 10

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Samuel L. Clemens and Mark Twain


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the tenth volume, 62 short stories and poems have been gathered from 42 authors…

Club Snobs

In The Book of Snobs

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W M Thackeray and William Makepeace Thackeray


The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write t…

The Empress Catharine and Prince Potemkin

In Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion

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Lyndon Orr


"Famous Affinities of History" is a book of passion-filled accounts of the most famous love affairs of history. The stories of Cle…

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