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Just Me

Read by Pamela Krantz


Pearl White


Perhaps the first memoir written by a film celebrity, Pearl White's Just Me gives a first-person account of the actress' rise to stardom. Wh…

Chapter 17: Ned Wayburn's Toe Dancing

In The Art of Stage Dancing

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Ned Wayburn


Ned Wayburn, a popular and outstanding choreographer of the early 1900's, writes about the different styles and requirements of dancing and …

20 - Part 4, Chapter 1 - Of Marriage and Baptism

In The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment

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Elisabeth Celnart and Élisabeth Celnart


A mid-nineteenth century book of etiquette. (Summary by Libby Gohn)

21 - Truth and Falsehood

In Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young

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Jacob Abbott


Subtitled, "The principles on which a firm parental authority may be established and maintained, without violence or anger, and the rig…

28 - CHAPTER XXVIII - MEDICINE MEN OF CIVILISATION

In The Uncommercial Traveller

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Charles Dickens


The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens. In 1859 Dickens founded a new …

12 - Second Book. The World As Will. First Aspect. 17 to 19

In The World as Will and Idea Volume 1

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Arthur Schopenhauer


Schopenhauer used the word "will" as a human's most familiar designation for the concept that can also be signified by other words…