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Schoolmistress
Arthur Wing Pinero
The second of Pinero's farces, following the wildly successful The Magistrate, and likewise a hit. The Schoolmistress has a secret: "Th…
Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Wit…
John Kendrick Bangs
Written by a fictitious first-person narrator, this book puts a humorous spin on encounters with several famous people of the time. "I …
Underneath the Bough: A Book of Verses
Michael Field
This is a collection of poems by Michael Field, the pseudonym of Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper. Those poems are of interest…
Contrasted Songs
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Marian Longfellow
This is a volume of collected poetry by American poet Marian Longfellow. The poems lack a uniform theme, but, as the author puts it, "A…
The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English
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Sappho
Who shall strike the wax of mystery from those priceless amphoræ, and give to the unsophisticated nostrils of the average reader the r…
Katydid's Poems
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Kate Slaughter Mckinney
This is a volume of poems by Kate Slaughter McKinney, poet laureate of the State of Alabama of 1931, who often went by the pen-name Katydid.…
Confessions of a Book-Lover
E. Walter Walters
"I am of the company of book men who read simply for the love of it," confesses E. Walter Walters, in this gently written tome. Wa…
Renascence: A Book of Verse
Walter Crane
Walter Crane is better known as an artist and illustrator of children’s books. His illustrations defined a whole genre which influenced the…
Trail of the Tramp
Leon Ray Livingston
This book, written by the famous hobo and author, Leon Ray Livingston aka A-No. 1, is built on his own experiences on the road. The first ch…
Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen
Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…
Theologia Germanica
Anonymous
This short, anonymous work is thought to have been written in the 1300s by a member of the lay-religious group called ‘The Friends of God.’ …
Story of a New Zealand River
Jane Mander
"This is the land of the lost, one of those happy spots where no questions are asked. Of course, the fact of a person's being here is u…
Prowling About Panama
George A. Miller
In 1903, Panama became a brand new state in Central America by seceding from Colombia in order to facilitate the construction of the Panama …
From the Easy Chair Vol. 1
George William Curtis
George William Curtis was a writer and public speaker. He was editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the American Republican p…
Jefferson Bible - The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
Thomas Jefferson
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, commonly referred to as the Jefferson Bible, was a book constructed by Thomas Jefferson in the lat…
Easter Hymns
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Various
Lockwood, Brooks & Co. Have nearly ready the volume of “Easter Hymns” selected by Miss J.E.C. Chapman, an accomplished lady of Boston, a…
Technocracy
William Henry Smyth
The word technocracy refers to a system of government by technical experts such as scientists, technologists, and engineers. William Henry S…
Happy Jack (Version 2)
Thornton W. Burgess
Who would have thought dropping a nut would cause so much trouble? No sooner does Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel go scampering down the tree t…
Zofloya
Charlotte Dacre
Victoria de Loredani lives the life of a fairy tale princess in Venice. She has everything one might desire and more, until the sinister Cou…
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 030
Various
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …