Culture & Heritage

Iolanthe

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W. S. Gilbert



Iolanthe is a fairy banished from fairyland for the crime of marrying a mortal. Her half-fairy, half-human son Strephon is a fairy down to t…

South African Folk-Tales

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James A. Honeÿ



James Albert Honeij (Honey) has collected a variety of South African folktales from previously published sources in English translation, to …

Original Stories from Real Life

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Mary Wollstonecraft



Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the early promoters of gender equality long before other crusaders took up the cause. She is perhaps best kno…

The Mother (Version 2)

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Pearl S. Buck



As with Pearl Buck's most famous 1st novel, The Good Earth, this 2nd book also describes peasant life in rural China about 150 years ago--fr…

The Black Candle

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Emily Murphy



Emily Murphy wrote about the Vancouver, BC Downtown Eastside and its various residents. This is one of her quotes from the book - "It …

In Old Plantation Days

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Paul Laurence Dunbar



With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern p…

Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian

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Unknown



This is a wonderful compilation of stories that serve to paint a vivid and beautiful image of the Native American figure. The exploration o…

Dark Princess

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W. E. B. Du Bois



This story begins as Matthew Towns, a brilliant young Black medical student, is dismissed from medical school because the white board has de…

Baltimore Hats

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William T. Brigham



It is not impossible that some useful information may be conveyed by this book. Should these pages prove of such service, their cost in labo…

Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures

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Montague Glass



Montague Glass was a lawyer who eventually abandoned the practice of law to write full time. He wrote a series of stories in the New York P…

Stories and Pictures

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I. L. Peretz



A collection of short stories written originally in Yiddish and later translated into English. These stories were published under censorship…

Poems of American History, Volume 4, The Civil War

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Various



This volume is a fascinating reflection on the Civil War years from a perspective in 1908, when many Civil War veterans were still alive, wh…

Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem

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Sutton Griggs



Imperium in Imperio is a historical fiction novel by Sutton Griggs, published in 1899. The novel covers the life of Belton Piedmont, an educ…

Garthowen: A Story of a Welsh Homestead

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Allen Raine



The story centers around the Owens' family and young ‘Morva of the Moor’, the prettiest girl in the world.The Owens of Garthowen, once a pre…

The Sturdy Oak

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Various



At a certain committee meeting held in the spring of 1916, it was agreed that fourteen leading American authors, known to be extremely gener…

The Fortunes of Nigel

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Sir Walter Scott



During the turbulent moment in English history involving King James 1 and 6, Nigel Olifaunt, a Scottish lord, seeks to protect his family ho…

Tales from Silver Lands

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Charles Finger



The 1925 Newbery Medal Winner for best children's literature published in the United States, this collection of Central and South American i…

The Nibelungenlied (English Verse)

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Anonymoustranslated Bygeorge Henry Needler, Unknowntranslated Bygeorge Henry Needler and Unknowntranslated By George Henry Needler



The only translation into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original of the epic German poem The Nibelungenlied. There was a 2013 Li…

Savage Holiday

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Richard Wright



Savage Holiday is an unforgettable story--a high tension drama that throbs with suspense and shows the reader what it's like to be Erskine F…

Camden's Compliment to Walt Whitman

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Various



On the occasion of Walt Whitman's 70th Birthday a "Committee of Citizens" in Camden, NJ held a special commemoration in his honor.…

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