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American Fairy Tales

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L. Frank Baum


This collection of fantasy stories was originally serialized in regional newspapers, prior to being published as a complete volume. The stor…

Tarzan and the Ant Men

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Edgar Rice Burroughs


Lord Greystoke, Tarzan of the Apes, is embroiled in thrilling adventures among the tiny, warlike Minunians. (Summary by Matthew Reece)

The Autobiography of Methuselah

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John Kendrick Bangs


A satirical look at early biblical events from the point of view of someone who was there to witness most of them: the oldest man in recorde…

Elves and Heroes

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Donald Alexander Mackenzie


This volume describes, in verse, the mythical creatures and people of ancient Scotland. It also includes explanatory notes about about the c…

Excerpt from 'The American Ornithological Biography'

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 02

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John James Audubon


The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Why Babe Ruth Is Greatest Home Run Hitter

In American Psychology, 1900-1922

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Hugh Fullerton


This is the first of what is intended to be three projects featuring journal articles which chart the development of psychology as an academ…

A House on Fire

In No Quarter!

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Thomas Mayne Reid


There is no page in England’s history so bright, nor of which Englishmen have such reason to be proud, as that covering the period between 1…

Chapter 9

In The Famous Missions of California

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William Henry Hudson


Naturalist William Henry Hudson was born in Argentina of immigrant parents from England, and later settled there. He published books on orn…

38 - Chapter XXXVIII

In Aurora Floyd

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Aurora Floyd, the daughter of a rich banker and an actress, could not have had a better start: back from a finishing school in Paris, she is…

08 - A Raid on the Stale-Beer Dives

In How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

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Jacob Riis and Jacob A. Riis


How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting…

How to Know the Wild Animals

In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 04

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Carolyn Wells


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the fourth volume, 40 short stories and poems have been gathered from 33 author…