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The Land of Midian (Revisited)

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Richard Francis Burton


The plain unvarnished tale of the travel in Midian, undertaken by the second Expedition, which, like the first, owes all to the liberality a…

The Lance of Kanana: A Story of Arabia

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Harry W. French


A gripping, coming-of-age tale with youthful heroism, wisdom and fortitude on the Arabian Peninsula, somewhat in the style of One Thousand A…

The Literature of Arabia

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Epiphanius Wilson


A collection of many romantic stories: it has no epic unity. It will remind the reader of the "Morte d'Arthur" of Sir Thomas Malor…

In Memoriam Francis Barton Gummere

In Plum Pudding (version 2)

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Christopher Morley


Christopher Morley: A modern humorist with the tang of an Elizabethan. Plum Pudding: Thus Mr. Morley entitles his new volume, in which he ha…

GENERAL TREPOFF AND THE RUSSIAN STUDENTS

In The True Stories of Celebrated Crimes

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George Barton


Excerpt: "Raw truth often possesses greater human interest than the most polished fiction. Crime, in itself, is painful and sometimes r…

FOREWORD

In You Can't Win

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Jack Black


'You Can't Win' is an autobiography that was serialized in the San Francisco Call and Post (1925). It became so popular that it was publishe…