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The Mentor: Benjamin Franklin
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Albert Bushnell Hart
This is Vol. 6, No. 7, Serial No. 155 of The Mentor, published May 15, 1918.Benjamin Franklin was one of the leading figures of the 18th cen…
My Religion
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Arnold Bennett, J. D. Beresford, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Arthur Jones, Compton Mackenzie, E. Phillips Oppenheim, H. De Vere Stacpoole, Hugh Walpole, Rebecca West and Israel Zangwill
This 1926 collection of sixteen essays on religion by well-known people (mostly authors) in the early 20th century brings together articles …
Indian Summer
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William Dean Howells
In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102
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Various
"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…
The Bookman, March 1921
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John Farrar
This precursor to The New Yorker magazine features several Algonquin Roundtable regulars, including Broun, Woolcott, and Morley. Editor is J…
Lost Leaders
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Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang, best beloved for his series of fairy books, has collected here essays on wide ranging topics from golf and shaving to Thackeray…
Pastiche and Prejudice
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Arthur Bingham Walkley
Arthur Bingham Walkley was an exceedingly popular critic, working as a drama critic at The Times alone for no less than 26 years, and writin…
The Powder of Sympathy
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Christopher Morley
Another collection of mostly short “soliloquys” from Christopher Morley, an American literary luminary, who introduces them thus: “… these p…
The Lost Art of Reading
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Gerald Stanley Lee
Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…
British & American Periodical Articles 1852-1905
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Various
A dozen assorted articles from British and American periodicals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Punch, The Chicago Record-Herald, Chambers'…
Reading: An Essay
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Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
Römische Geschichte Buch 2
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Theodor Mommsen
Mommsen (1817-1903) erhielt für die Römische Geschichte 1902 den Nobelpreis für Literatur.Zweites BuchVon der Abschaffung des…
Heroines of Fiction
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William Dean Howells
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
The Vision of Sir Launfal and Other Poems
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James Russell Lowell
A collection of poems by Lowell, one of the Fireside poets with Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, and Bryant, including a sketch of his life. T…
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 12 - Miscellany
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Enjoy listening to some of The Great Agnostic's fiery articles, speeches and introductory remarks at a variety of banquets, expositions (lik…
Poems of American History, The Period of Growth
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Various
This volume covers the age of expansion from the Revolution to the Civil War, including the creation of the Constitution, the Presidency of …
Römische Geschichte Buch 1
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Theodor Mommsen
Mommsen (1817-1903) erhielt für die Römische Geschichte 1902 den Nobelpreis für Literatur.Erstes BuchBis zur Abschaffung des …
The Literature of Arabia
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Epiphanius Wilson
A collection of many romantic stories: it has no epic unity. It will remind the reader of the "Morte d'Arthur" of Sir Thomas Malor…
The Plastic Age
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Percy Marks
The Plastic Age (1924) is a novel by Percy Marks, which tells the story of co-eds at a fictional college called Sanford. With contents that …
Four Hundred Years of Freethought, Part 1
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Samuel Porter Putnam
This is Samuel Putnam's tour of European literature which began to appear once the globe was circumnavigated and the printing press made boo…