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Scottish Reminiscences - Archibald Geikie
Scottish Reminiscences - Archibald Geikie
- Author: Archibald Geikie
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
Archibald Geikie was a geologist in Scotland by profession, and a writer. While most of his writings were professional, this is a more personal book telling some of the history of Scotland, Archibald's memories, experiences and recollections there...
Our Western Birds - Elizabeth Grinnell
Our Western Birds - Elizabeth Grinnell
- Author: Elizabeth Grinnell
- Genre: Animals / Nature
This mother and son team, each distinguished in their field, collaborate to give charming portraits of common birds of the western United States from the western robin and cedar waxwing to the crow and roadrunner. The book is written in a plain and...
Warrior of Two Worlds - Manly Wade Wellman
Warrior of Two Worlds - Manly Wade Wellman
- Author: Manly Wade Wellman
- Genre: Science Fiction
"He was the man of two planets, drawn through the blackness of space to save a nation from ruthless invaders. He was Yandro, the Stranger of the Prophecy—and he found that he was destined to fight both sides." Another swashbuckler in space from...
The Clue of the Twisted Candle (Version 2) - Edgar Wallace
The Clue of the Twisted Candle (Version 2) - Edgar Wallace
- Author: Edgar Wallace
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Detective mystery story set in London, with some romance, and intriguing plot. - Summary by Peter Thomlinson...
The Red Reign: The True Story of an Adventurous Year in Russia - Kellogg Durland
The Red Reign: The True Story of an Adventurous Year in Russia - Kellogg Durland
- Author: Kellogg Durland
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Travel & Geography / Modern (20th C)
Kellogg Durland spent a year in Russia as a journalist in 1906, during a seminal period in Russian history. This is a highly interesting read, knowing as we do what fell out for Russia in the next decade. The Russian Revolution did not appear from...
The Book of Nature Myths (Version 2) - Florence HOLBROOK
The Book of Nature Myths (Version 2) - Florence HOLBROOK
- Author: Florence HOLBROOK
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
These delightful stories about how natural things began are drawn from the early folk-lore of many races. The wonderful explanations of the phenomena of nature given by the native races appeal to the child's wonder about the same phenomena, and he...
As in a Mirror - Pansy
As in a Mirror - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Christian Fiction
A wealthy and successful author, John Stuart King is preparing to write his next book, which includes a homeless tramp. He has done all the research and thinks he knows what he needs to on the subject. But in a sermon he hears with a friend, the...
The Famous Missions of California - William Henry HUDSON
The Famous Missions of California - William Henry HUDSON
- Author: William Henry HUDSON
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
Naturalist William Henry Hudson was born in Argentina of immigrant parents from England, and later settled there. He published books on ornithology and novels, and other books of far ranging interest. This is a short overview, which he calls a...
George Washington - Ferdinand Schmidt
George Washington - Ferdinand Schmidt
- Author: Ferdinand Schmidt
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Among all the numerous life stories written by Ferdinand Schmidt for the delectation and education of German youth, none surpasses that of Washington. The author has condensed his material, drawn from the most authoritative sources, in a masterly...
The B. B. Warfield Collection, Volume 3 - Benjamin B. Warfield
The B. B. Warfield Collection, Volume 3 - Benjamin B. Warfield
- Author: Benjamin B. Warfield
- Genre: Christianity - Other
This volume showcases the diversity of Warfield's interests: as a systematic theologian, New Testament scholar, historian and churchman. Included are all the articles Warfield wrote for the journal Bibliotheca Sacra in the year of his death on John...
A Selection from the Norse Tales for the Use of Children - Sir George Webbe Dasent
A Selection from the Norse Tales for the Use of Children - Sir George Webbe Dasent
- Author: Sir George Webbe Dasent
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of Norse folktales selected as being appropriate for children. They range from short pieces such as, "How One Went Out to Woo" to the longer stories such as, "The Blue Belt" and "Shortshanks," and include such favorites as, "The...
Life is a Dream - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Life is a Dream - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Author: Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Genre: Drama
Of all Calderon's works, "Life is a Dream" may be regarded as the most universal in its theme. It seeks to teach a lesson that may be learned from the philosophers and religious thinkers of many ages—that the world of our senses is a mere shadow,...
Bread - Charles G. Norris
Bread - Charles G. Norris
- Author: Charles G. Norris
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Bread by Charles G. Norris reads like a working class Great Gatsby with a tragic female main character. The author is said to have influenced F. Scott Fitzgerald. There is a kind of cadence to the writing, and arc to the story where this can be felt...
Women of the French Revolution - Winifred Stephens Whale
Women of the French Revolution - Winifred Stephens Whale
- Author: Winifred Stephens Whale
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
(Excerpt) One aspect of this subject of revolutionary women, their connection with the secret societies of the day I have purposely ignored. It is obscure and highly controversial. Unfortunately, though these societies have been much, written about,...
El Filibusterismo (The Reign of Greed) - José RIZAL
El Filibusterismo (The Reign of Greed) - José RIZAL
- Author: José RIZAL
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The Philippines, still a Spanish colony, are more or less run by the Catholic friars, and with an iron fist.. However, here and there are pockets of insurrection. In the countryside, a group of outlaws takes things in their own hands – including the...
Bullet With His Name - Fritz Leiber
Bullet With His Name - Fritz Leiber
- Author: Fritz Leiber
- Genre: Science Fiction
In "Bullet with His Name," two alien beings have come to give gifts to an Earthman. But this is not altruism; it is, rather, a test. "The fate of his race hangs on his reactions to [the gifts]." And one of the aliens mentions that he himself is "a...
The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 - Ida M. TARBELL
The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 - Ida M. TARBELL
- Author: Ida M. TARBELL
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / History
Volume 1 of Ida Tarbell's biography of Lincoln covers his life from his boyhood to his election to the presidency in 1860. Tarbell, in addition to her famous work in investigative journalism (in particular, her influential expose of The Standard Oil...
Mark Twain and the Happy Island - Elizabeth Wallace
Mark Twain and the Happy Island - Elizabeth Wallace
- Author: Elizabeth Wallace
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (20th C)
This Mark Twain Memoir by Elizabeth Wallace paints an idyllic portrait of his time in Bermuda, not long before his death in 1910. Wallace and Twain met in Bermuda in 1908, became fast friends, and shared time together on the island and regular...
Rubble and Roseleaves, and Things of That Kind - Frank W. Boreham
Rubble and Roseleaves, and Things of That Kind - Frank W. Boreham
- Author: Frank W. Boreham
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of editorials during his lifetime, with no sign of slowing down, even up until his death at age 88. He wrote with a...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 082 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 082 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
"Is sin a necessary stage in the development of humanity, or a yawning chasm in the very structure of the universe?” Theologian J. Gresham Machen's exploration of "eternal ideas" is joined, in vol. 082, by readings in philosophy and psychology by...
Rumpty-Dudget's Tower: A Fairy Tale - Julian Hawthorne
Rumpty-Dudget's Tower: A Fairy Tale - Julian Hawthorne
- Author: Julian Hawthorne
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Julian Hawthorne spins a charming fairy tale featuring the mischievous dwarf Rumpty-Dudget', Princess Hilda, Prince Frank and the Queen. Add in some gnomes, golden Ivy-seed, diamond water-drops and magic fire and you are in for enchanting...
The Call of the Wildflower - Henry SALT
The Call of the Wildflower - Henry SALT
- Author: Henry SALT
- Genre: Nature
A learned, and immensely pleasant, journey in search of wildflowers as told by the author. - Summary by KevinS...
Olga Romanoff - George GRIFFITH
Olga Romanoff - George GRIFFITH
- Author: George GRIFFITH
- Genre: Science Fiction
Olga Romanoff (1894) is a science fiction novel by the English writer George Griffith, first published as The Syren of the Skies in Pearson's Weekly. The novel continues (from The Angel of the Revolution) the tale of a worldwide brotherhood of...
Catena Aurea, St. Matthew - Vol 1, Part 2 - Saint Thomas Aquinas
Catena Aurea, St. Matthew - Vol 1, Part 2 - Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
A catena (from Latin catena, a chain) is a form of biblical commentary, verse by verse, made up entirely of excerpts from earlier Biblical commentators, each introduced with the name of the author, and with such minor adjustments of words to allow...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 079 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 079 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
"It was about the month of May...that I received information ...that two photographs of fairies had been taken in the North of England under circumstances which seemed to put fraud out of the question." (Arthur Conan Doyle 1920). Differing...
Peg O' My Heart - John Hartley Manners
Peg O' My Heart - John Hartley Manners
- Author: John Hartley Manners
- Genre: Romance / Satire
The Chichester family have just gone bankrupt due to bank failure. Their situation looks gloomy until Mrs. Chichester learns of the death of her brother Nathaniel. While Nathaniel hasn't left them any money, he put a clause into his will stating...
Lightnin' - Winchell Smith
Lightnin' - Winchell Smith
- Author: Winchell Smith
- Genre: Comedy
A Western from 1918, that ran over a 1000 shows on Broadway and was made into movies twice. Lightnin' and his wife run a seedy hotel that straddles the Nevada-California state line, making for an interesting legal situation. When some out-of-town...
Poems of Nature - Henry David Thoreau
Poems of Nature - Henry David Thoreau
- Author: Henry David Thoreau
- Genre: Single author
The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of them were printed by him, in whole or in part, among his early contributions to Emerson’s Dial, or in his own...
The Nest of the Sparrowhawk: A Romance of the XVIIth Century - Baroness Orczy
The Nest of the Sparrowhawk: A Romance of the XVIIth Century - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Historical Fiction
This historical novel takes place in Kent in 1657, and focuses on a local nobleman who stops at nothing to gain wealth, and his ward who is a victim of his crimes. The puritan influence and social cultural mores of the time provide interesting parts...
Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain - Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain - Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
- Author: Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain is a collection of three narratives about life in the theater based on Mowatt’s career on stage. The stories, “Stella,” “The Prompter’s Daughter,” and “The Unknown Tragedian” reveal the every-day...
The Life of Washington, Volume 2 - John James Marshall
The Life of Washington, Volume 2 - John James Marshall
- Author: John James Marshall
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / History
Volume 2 of The Life begins with some early biography, but moves quickly to Washington's military career as a colonel in the battles against the French in Canada until the cessation of his tenure, after which he marries and appears to settle down....
Silhouettes - Arthur SYMONS
Silhouettes - Arthur SYMONS
- Author: Arthur SYMONS
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of verses by British poet, critic and magazine editor Arthur Symons, which, as some reviewers assure us, was "'unwholesome," because, he said, they had "a faint smell of Patchouli about them."' Modern readers may value the...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 - 11. November 1898 - National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 - 11. November 1898 - National Geographic Society
- Author: National Geographic Society
- Genre: Travel & Geography
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, November 1898. It includes the following articles: Sumatra's West Coast, by David G. Fairchild What is the Tide of the Open Atlantic? by Mark S.W. Jefferson The Peak of Itambe...
Two Poems - Henry Rutgers Conger
Two Poems - Henry Rutgers Conger
- Author: Henry Rutgers Conger
- Genre: Single author
These inspiring tributes to Williams College and its graduates were written by Henry Rutgers Conger while still a Williams student. In each of these poems we experience Conger's deep expressions of camaraderie, his devotion and gratitude to his alma...
Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part Two (1880-1889) - Mark Twain
Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part Two (1880-1889) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Literary Collections
This collection of articles by and about Mark Twain and his family was compiled by Barbara Schmidt, publisher of twainquotes.com. Included in Part Two of this chronological listing (1880-1889) are some of Twain’s short stories, speeches and letters,...
Spices, their histories - Robert O. Fielding
Spices, their histories - Robert O. Fielding
- Author: Robert O. Fielding
- Genre: Nature
A surprisingly complete and informative 64-page booklet describing common spices used in cooking and for other purposes. Written especially for grocers, but helpful for all interested. - Summary by KevinS...
Courage (Dramatic Reading) - Ruth OGDEN
Courage (Dramatic Reading) - Ruth OGDEN
- Author: Ruth OGDEN
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family
Courage follows the story of Courage, a young 12-year-old orphaned girl, who adapts to to meeting and living with new people. She lives up to her name . . . but, what becomes of her in the end? - Summary by bhavya Courage: Elsie Selwyn Larry: Larry...
Horror Stories - Ada Buisson
Horror Stories - Ada Buisson
- Author: Ada Buisson
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Gothic Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Ada Buisson was a Victorian novelist and short story author. This collection includes her three horror stories, all of which were published in the journal Belgravia in 1867-1869. - Summary by Newgatenovelist...
The Romance of the Romanoffs - Joseph Martin McCabe
The Romance of the Romanoffs - Joseph Martin McCabe
- Author: Joseph Martin McCabe
- Genre: War & Military / History / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were periods of stark contrast between the opulent lifestyle of the rich and the extreme poverty of the peasants throughout the world. In addition, Russia straddled eastern and western...
The Misses Mallett - E. H. Young
The Misses Mallett - E. H. Young
- Author: E. H. Young
- Genre: Family Life
The arrival of the eligible Francis Sales disturbs the calm existence of the four Misses Mallett in this social satire. Three women love him--will one of them be his wife? - Summary by Anne Erickson...
