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The Men Who Found America

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Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson


This Book is about the Men Who Found America and how it started - Summary by Elijah

The Battle of the Books

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Jonathan Swift


"The Battle of the Books" depicts a literal battle between books in the King's Library (housed in St James's Palace at the time of…

Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer

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Richard Steele


Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. was a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of then famous Almanac-maker and astrol…

Days With Sir Roger de Coverley

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Joseph Addison


The author Sir Richard Steele, who was one of the writers for The Spectator, gets the opportunity to spend a month in Sir Roger de Coverley'…

A Journey Inland

In The Story of the Thirteen Colonies

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H. A. Guerber


These short vignettes of American history are written for the young reader. Each one is a little capsule of a person or event. They run fr…

I. Silver Pitchers, Chapters 1 and 2

In Silver Pitchers: and Independence, A Centennial Love Story

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Louisa May Alcott


Here are 9 engaging short stories from Louisa May Alcott (of Little Women fame), all period pieces, some of them somewhat autobiographical, …

Later events in Canada part 4

In Canadian Scenery, Volume 1

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Nathaniel Parker Willis


An historical account of the settlement of Upper and Lower Canada, with notes about the indigenous inhabitants of those areas of Eastern Can…

Preface

In Lillian Morris, and Other Stories

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Henryk Sienkiewicz


The nights were real Californian: calm, warm, starry; the fire burned cheerily, and in its gleam I saw the gigantic, but shapely and noble f…

Chapter 14, AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE

In Gun Running for Casement

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Karl Spindler


Sir Roger David Casement was a British public servant renowned for his Congo Report (1904) and his Putumayo Report (1912) both of which expo…

CHAPTER III. THE PRIMROSE PATH

In The Inside of the Cup

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Winston Churchill


John Hodder, stepping into the large shoes of his predecessor, is the new rector at St. John's, a church in a fashionable section of town th…

What Dave Heard

In The Adventures of Joel Pepper

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Margaret Sidney


The Peppers are a family of three boys, two girls, and Mamsie. They are poor, living in their "Little Brown House", but they alway…