Essays & Short Works
Is Mars Habitable?
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Alfred Russel Wallace
In 1907 Wallace wrote the short book Is Mars Habitable? to criticize the claims made by Percival Lowell that there were Martian canals built…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 028
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Giftmischer" übersetzt von Margarete JacobiDie &…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 020
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Various
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…
Visits To The Dead In The Catacombs Of Rome
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George Washington Greene
This essay of a cultured observer, for many years United States consul in Rome, appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 10, issue 59,…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 017
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.
Insomnia Collection Vol. 003
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Various
Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. Ho…
The Copyright Question
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George Morang
This is a letter to the Toronto Board of Trade regarding Canadian copyrights. Morang requested an appearance before the Toronto Board of Tra…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 009
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 10 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.Eine Liste weiterer kurzer Aufnahmen (Erzählungen, Gedichte…
Appreciations, with an Essay on Style
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Walter Pater
Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, is a collection of Walter Pater's previously-published essays on literature. The collection was well …
A Fleet In Being; Notes Of Two Trips With The Channel Squadron
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Rudyard Kipling
[Kipling] became involved in the debate over the British response to the rise in German naval power known as the Tirpitz Plan to build a fle…
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 2
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Charles Dickens
This year is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the second volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry a…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 011
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Various
A collection of sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, articles, speeches and reports included in this collection…
永日小品 (Eijitsu Syohin)
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Sōseki Natsume
これは、夏目漱石の随筆集です。1909年に朝日新聞に連載されました。東京での日常生活、ロンドンでの経験などが含まれています。This is a collection of essays by Natsume Soseki. They were published in the A…
Theodore Roosevelt; An Address Delivered Before The Congress Of The United States
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Henry Cabot Lodge
A biographical encomium delivered on the occasion of Roosevelt's death. Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. (1858 – 1919) was an Amer…
Life's Enthusiasms
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David Starr Jordan
The words in this essay on positive thought sing like those in Whitman's "Leaves of Grass." The author praises joyous living and r…
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
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William Hazlitt
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things is a posthumous collection of essays by William Hazlitt, organized by his grandson, Wi…
Collection: Tales of the Cities
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Various
This is a collection of city stories, fiction or non-fiction, in English and published before 1923. Contributions have been chosen by the re…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 023
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Various
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the rea…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 2: The Man in the Iron Mask
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Alexandre Dumas
In the late 1600s a man was doubly-imprisoned: his body in an iron cell and his face in an iron mask. Who the “man in the iron mask” was, wh…