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Ingersoll on VOLTAIRE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lecture 4 - Robert G. Ingersoll
Ingersoll on VOLTAIRE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lecture 4 - Robert G. Ingersoll
- Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Col. Ingersoll begins his lectures on famous people as follows: "It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius. Take from our world what they have given, and all the niches would be empty, all the walls nakedβmeaning and...
The Amethyst Cross - Fergus Hume
The Amethyst Cross - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance
Things look bleak for Lesbia Hales. Her father does not let her marry the man she loves. Her mother is dead. She has to keep secrets in order to promote what she wants for herself. One day, her lover, George Walker, is injured in her home and...
The Sign at Six - Stewart Edward White
The Sign at Six - Stewart Edward White
- Author: Stewart Edward White
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
It started out as a nuisance--odd electrical problems in the Atlas building that cleared themselves up. But then it got worse, the problems becoming more and more peculiar and inexplicable. Scientist Percy Darrow has given himself the task of...
The Bachelors' Club - Israel Zangwill
The Bachelors' Club - Israel Zangwill
- Author: Israel Zangwill
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
The Bachelors' Club is a sanctuary for an elite group of London's unmarried men to gather. To qualify as a Bachelor, each had to undergo a strict background check to ensure that they were not only unmarried, but a zealot in the movement that held...
Alice Dugdale - Anthony Trollope
Alice Dugdale - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1800 -1900
An ordinary village girl's plans for the future with her long-standing beau are threatened when he is seen to be an attractive prospect by a local noble family Trollope's novella works through the consequences with typical affection and sensitivity....
Father Thames - Walter Higgins
Father Thames - Walter Higgins
- Author: Walter Higgins
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Originally published in 1922, this work details the history and importance of one of Great Britain's grandest rivers, the River Thames. It includes information on the river's geography and its role in the founding of London. This is a fascinating...
The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 - Ida M. TARBELL
The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 - Ida M. TARBELL
- Author: Ida M. TARBELL
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
Volume 2 of Ida Tarbell's biography of Lincoln begins at chapter 22 with Lincoln's first inauguration, and ends with an account of his funeral. The volume also includes a lengthy appendix which contains, in chronological order, letters. telegrams...
The Prince and Betty (version 2) - P. G. Wodehouse
The Prince and Betty (version 2) - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The story moves from a royal palace in Europe to a squalid tenement in New York. The European action centers on the efforts of an uncouth millionaire to create a gambling mecca on the tiny isle of Mervo. This involves the installation of a Prince...
The Blind Brother (Version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Homer Greene
The Blind Brother (Version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Homer Greene
- Author: Homer Greene
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Historical Fiction
A story of repentance and forgiveness set in the times of the the coal mines. Follow a blind boy and his brother determined to get him cured but also determined to live up to a moral code even if that mean years of blindness for Benny. See self...
The Yellow Claw - Sax Rohmer
The Yellow Claw - Sax Rohmer
- Author: Sax Rohmer
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
When a woman is murdered at mystery writer Henry Loureoux's apartment, Scotland Yard inspector Dunbar begins his investigation with a note that the woman left behind written to a Mr. King. When M. Gaston Max, a Parisian criminal investigator and...
The Noble Heart - George Henry Lewes
The Noble Heart - George Henry Lewes
- Author: George Henry Lewes
- Genre: Drama
This Victorian melodrama, written by G.H. Lewes, common law husband of novelist George Eliot (Marian Evans), featured a scandalous love triangle. The scene is set in 16th century Spain. The main character is Don Gomez del la Vega, a nobleman in...
The Push Of A Finger - Alfred Bester
The Push Of A Finger - Alfred Bester
- Author: Alfred Bester
- Genre: Science Fiction
Science fiction from the 50s by one of the masters, Alfred Bester. Society has committed itself to complete stability. Nothing is allowed to upset this stability, nothing that is not planned and approved and accounted for in advance. Yes, this is...
The Lavender Dragon - Eden PHILLPOTTS
The Lavender Dragon - Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Author: Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantasy Fiction
A well meaning dragon steals lonely humans to populate his version of paradise. A knight-errant comes to the rescue, but finds this terrible dragon to be something quite different than expected....
The Dragon Queen of Jupiter - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
The Dragon Queen of Jupiter - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Author: Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Genre: Science Fiction
The French Foreign legion has been exported to Space as the Space foreign legion. They are fighting now on Jupiter and the natives, led by their Dragon Queen, are winning. Earth and Mars need places for people to live and grow food but Jupiter may...
The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 7: Anthropology & Medicine - Francis ROLT-WHEELER
The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 7: Anthropology & Medicine - Francis ROLT-WHEELER
- Author: Francis ROLT-WHEELER
- Genre: Medical / Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The seventh volume is on Anthropology written by the editor himself and on Medicine written by Theodore H. Allen. An introduction to the Anthropology section was written by Frederick...
The Introduction to Shakespeare Apocrypha - C. F. Tucker Brooke
The Introduction to Shakespeare Apocrypha - C. F. Tucker Brooke
- Author: C. F. Tucker Brooke
- Genre: Literary Criticism
"The ambition of the editor has been to provide an accurate and complete text, with adequate critical and supplementary matter, of all those plays which can, without entire absurdity, be included in the 'doubtfully Shakespearian' class." This...
The Dark Flower - John Galsworthy
The Dark Flower - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Galsworthy's classic The Dark Flower is a study of love. Spring is the beginning when all is new and full of hope. However, the woman Lennan has fallen for is out of reach, a forbidden love. Can he overcome the challenges? As he matures, he...
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 02 - Various
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 02 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends, heroes, myths, and ancient lore from many different cultures. - Summary by Lynette Caulkins...
Little Joe Otter - Thornton W. Burgess
Little Joe Otter - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
βFolks arenβt so sure about you when You spring surprises now and then.β Little Joe Otter. Join Little Joe Otter and Peter Rabbit in their adventures that include encounters with Farmer Brown and a treacherous trapper. This is the second of the...
Idylls Of The Sea And Other Marine Sketches - Frank Thomas Bullen
Idylls Of The Sea And Other Marine Sketches - Frank Thomas Bullen
- Author: Frank Thomas Bullen
- Genre: Nature / Travel & Geography
In these little sketches [1899] of a few out of the innumerable multitude of ways in which the sea has spoken to me during my long acquaintance with it, I have tried with βprentice hand to reproduce for shore-dwellers some of the things it has told...
