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Civil War Women, North And South

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Various


This recording comprises two narratives. One is by Cora Mitchel who in 1861 was a girl in her mid-teens. Her Unionist family escaped the C…

Letters From America

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Rupert Brooke


"[Rupert Brooke] started in May 1913 on a journey to the United States, Canada, and the South Seas, from which he returned next year at…

The Human Boy And The War

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Eden Phillpotts


Published in 1916, this is the third collection of thirteen humorous short stories about English school boys in a boarding school in the fic…

Idylls Of The Sea And Other Marine Sketches

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Frank Thomas Bullen


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 acquainta…

Tales of English Minsters: Hereford

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Elizabeth W. Grierson


This short book was originally written for children, though adults will also find it worthwhile. It tells interesting history of Hereford i…

Titan Of Chasms: The Grand Canyon Of Arizona

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Charles F. Lummis


This is a 1906 collection of three essays by men famously associated with The Grand Canyon: Charles A. Higgins, John Wesley Powell, and Cha…

Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. And Second Bishop Of Tennessee Being His Story…

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Charles Todd Quintard


Charles Quintard (1824-1898) was an Episcopal priest who, in spite of his pro-Union stance, volunteered to be a chaplain in the Confederate …

The Village and The Library

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George Crabbe


The Village is Crabbe’s corrective to the rosy-tinted view of English village and rural working class life. He was a stark realist, as a pri…

Two Diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February - May, 1…

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Susan R. Jervey


Two diaries from Middle St. John’s, Berkeley, South Carolina, February – May, 1865. Journals kept by Miss Susan R. Jervey and Miss Charlott…

The Race Of The Swift

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Edwin Carlile Litsey


This 1905 collection is of the author’s short animal stories, some previously published in magazines. - Summary by David Wales

Pierrot, Dog Of Belgium

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Walter Alden Dyer


This 1915 novella was published as the First World War raged. "Belgium lies bleeding. Across her level, lush meadows the harsh-shod h…

A Cathedral Singer

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James Lane Allen


New York City in the early 20th century, a boy with an angelic voice, his devoted mother, the great Episcopal Cathedral of Saint John The Di…

The Romance Of The Commonplace

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Frank Gelett Burgess


Thirty four whimsical, tongue-in-cheek, and entertaining essays about not much in particular, published in 1902, by one of the most popular …

The Road Past Kennesaw: The Atlanta Campaign Of 1864

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Richard M. Mcmurry


“…there can be little doubt that the Federal drive on Atlanta, launched in May 1864, was the beginning of the end for the Southern Confedera…

An Alabama Student And Other Biographical Essays

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Sir William Osler


Here are thirteen biographical sketches of physicians penned by one of the founders of modern medicine, William Osler, published in 1908. &…

Hector Berlioz; A Romantic Tragedy

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Herbert Francis Peyser


How much more futile is it to attempt on the minuscule scale of the following tiny, if rambling, pamphlet to touch upon even a thousandth of…

Rada; A Belgian Christmas Eve

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Alfred Noyes


This is not heart warming holiday fare. It is a short (one-act) unsubtle antiwar play by the English poet Alfred Noyes (1880-1958), publishe…

In The Footprints Of The Padres

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Charles Warren Stoddard


The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote travel books quite popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This…

South-Sea Idyls

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Charles Warren Stoddard


The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote quite popular travel books, especially those about Polynesia. South-Sea Idyls (1873)…

Combat Lessons Number 1: Rank And File In Combat: What They're Doing, How They …

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United States Army War College


This 1942 Army manual, published during the course of World War II, consists of quotations from soldiers in the field concerning their exper…

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