Edmund Bloxam
Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
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Daniel Defoe
The full title of the novel is Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress Or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Bele…
The Black-Bearded Barbarian
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Mary Esther Miller Macgregor
A fictionalized biography of George Mackay (1844-1901), an influential Presbyterian missionary in northern Taiwan. (Summary by Edmund Bloxam…
A Tale of a Tub
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Jonathan Swift
A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, composed between 1694 and 1697, that was eventually published in 1704. I…
The Case of Wagner / Nietzsche Contra Wagner / Selected Aphorisms
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Friedrich Nietzsche
A collection of three of Nietzsche's writings concerning the music of Wagner. In particular, he relates Wagner's music as degenerate, unrefi…
Descriptive Analyses of Piano Works
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Edward Baxter Perry
A look at the poetic motivations behind certain piano works. An understanding of these pieces on purely poetic grounds, with little insight …
Bizarre (version 2)
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Lawton Mackall
A series of humorous musings, short-length jokes, often concerning words and manners. - Summary by Edmund Bloxam
Essays Before a Sonata
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Charles Ives
Some philosophical studies in relation to the ideas of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne. Although the sonata is not explicitly referenced in this…
Drugging a Nation
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Samuel Merwin and Samuel Merwin, Sr.
Drugging a Nation is a journalistic reveal of the extent to which the British Empire was culpable in the dissemination and subsequent near t…
Catherine De' Medici
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Honoré de Balzac
The Philosophical Studies from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine) are a series of works that are intended as a reflection on history in p…
The Singing Bone or The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke
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R. Austin Freeman
In its original form, this book was published with the title, "The Singing Bone." It was later republished as "The Adventures…
In Colonial Days
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
A collection of British aristocrats, soldiers, gentlemen and ladies gather at the Province House inn, as the American imperial possessions c…
Mists of Mars
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George A. Whittington
The Wild West, reimagined as the Martian landscape, where law is defined by whoever has the biggest weapons, be they guns, ships, or things …
Nine Sci-fi Stories by Poul Anderson
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Poul William Anderson
'Industrial Revolution': Workers in a distant miner's facility plot emancipation from Earth. The military might have some say in the matter.…
Great Explorers in Space (Ed Reads Short Sci-fi, vol. I)
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Various
‘The Pioneer’ by Irving E. Cox The greatest explorer of them all returns to Earth and finds the world upside down!‘Flight Perilous’ by Ray C…
Lover or Friend
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Rosa Nouchette Carey
An epic tale of romantic and societal confrontation, as two families become far more intimately entangled than they could have previously im…
Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes
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Ella Cheever Thayer
A telegraph operator meets a mysterious stranger 'on the wire'. Throw in the most clumsy gent in literature, a stern matron, an actress with…
The Heart of Hyacinth
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Onoto Watanna
An abandoned young white woman dies with a baby in her arms in rural Japan. The child is raised by a Japanese woman. This child sees herself…
Fevers and Physicians in Space (Ed Reads Short Sci-fi, vol. II)
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Various
I: ‘Pandemic’ by Jesse F. BoneA deadly pandemic consumes the world (blah blah blah - you know the rest). If only THAT was the cure to the re…
Battles for the Stars (Ed Reads Short Sci-fi, vol. III)
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Ray Bradbury, Arnold Castle, Dave Dryfoos, Harry Harrison, L. Ron Hubbard, Ivar Jorgensen, H. Beam Piper, Michael Shaara, Robert Sheckley and William Tenn
I: ‘Diplomatic Immunity’ by Robert SheckleyThe alien ambassador MUST not return to their planet to tell of Earth; humanity has no chance ag…
Dastardly Criminals in Space (Ed Reads Short Sci-fi, vol. IV)
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Paul W. Fairman, Randall Garrett, Tom Godwin, Ivar Jorgensen, Stephen Marlowe, James V. McConnell, Frederik Pohl, James H. Schmitz, Robert Sheckley, Robert Silverberg and Manly Wade Wellman
Conspiracy on Callisto - Frederik PohlRevolt was flaring on Callisto, and Peter Duane held the secret that would make the uprising a success…
Stupendous Spectacles of the Solar System in Space (Ed Reads Short Sci-fi, vol.…
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Various
'The Frogs of Mars' by Roger D AycockThe little guy comes into the bar just as the first Marscast is about to start. He scoffs at scientific…
Retief: Intergalactic Diplomat in Space, (Ed Reads Short Sci-fi, vol. V)
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Keith Laumer
'Retief of the Red-Tape Mountain'Retief knew the importance of sealedorders—and the need to keep them that way!'The Desert and the Stars'The…
Scientists Do Science in Space (Ed Reads Short Sci-fi, vol. VII)
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Various
'The Cyberene' by Rog PhillipsSomewhere in the far future a diabolical brain plotted the enslavement of mankind. But to do that a history ha…
Masterpieces of Mystery: Ghost Stories
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Robert Louis Stevenson
'The Listener'First, it was a strange array of cats, then an increasingly mysterious, and then terrifying increase in...happenstances and...…
First Love And Other Fascinating Stories of Spanish Life (Version 2)
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Pedro Antonio De Alarcón Y Ariza
'First Love'Think of the most beautiful picture you've ever seen...'An Andalusian Duel'Two men, destined to die over a woman. But what does …
The Furthest Reaches of Space (Ed Reads Short Sci-fi, vol. VIII)
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Mack Reynolds, Roger Dee Aycock, Allen Kim Lang, Stephen Marlowe, Alan E. Nourse, Lester del Rey, Ross Rocklynne, Clifford D. Simak and Harl Vincent
'Wanderlust' by Alan E. NourseBefore the great journey comes the hope, the dream, the familial disappointment...and the truth. ‘The Sense of…
Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia and Laos During the…
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Henri Mouhot
Details of an expedition across Southeast Asia. Includes discussions of peoples, customs journies, buildings and biological observations. - …
The Almighty Dollar in Space (Ed Reads Short Sci-fi, vol. VI)
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Mack Reynolds
'$1000 a Plate' by Jack McKenty - When science meets tourism, surely only the Almighty Dollar can win out...'Guaranteed - Forever!' by Frank…