In Pastures New. George Ade
1906. After graduating from the newly built Purdue University, Ade wrote for some newspapers in Lafayette before moving to Chicago where he found work at The Morning News, which later became the Chicago Record. He began publishing his own work in
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Confessions of the Czarina. Count Paul Vassili
1918. Illustrated. A fictionalized account of Czarina Alexandra written by Count Paul Vassili, the nom de plume of Princess Catherine Radziwill, whose personal life makes for interesting reading of its own. Her Highness, Princess Catherine
Natural Philosophy. A. E. Thierens
An introduction to astrology and occultism in general along the lines of modern scientific thought. Contents: electron theory; sphere; spirit and matter; life and substance; existence; motion; mutation; primordial atom; gradations or planes of
The Wind Bloweth. Donn Byrne
1922. Seven chapters in the life of another fool sentimentalist, a story, magically told, touching all the chords of life. Donn Byrne tells a story of things as they were almost within the memory of living men, of some things that will be the same
Health Through Will Power. James J. Walsh
1920. The will is the controlling factor in disease. Many another demonstration of the power of will has been furnished by the War. This volume is meant to help in the restoration of the will to its place as the supreme faculty in life, above all
Sanitary And Social Lectures And Essays. Charles Kingsley
We talk of our hardy forefathers; and rightly. But they were hardy, just as the savage is usually hardy, because none but the hardy lived. They may have been able to say of themselves--as they do in a State paper of 1515, now well known through the
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Socialistic Fallacies. Yves Guyot
1910. No Socialist has succeeded in explaining the conditions for the production, remuneration and distribution of capital in a collectivist system. No Socialist has succeeded in determining the motives for action which individuals would obey. When
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Blix. Frank Norris
It had been easy to promise Blix that he would no longer gamble at his club with the other men of his acquaintance; but it was ""death and the devil,"" as he told himself, to abide by that promise. More than once in the fortnight following upon his
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Roughing It. Mark Twain
The next morning, bright and early, we took a hasty breakfast, and hurried to the starting-place. Then an inconvenience presented itself which we had not properly appreciated before, namely, that one cannot make a heavy traveling trunk stand for
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The Kentucky Warbler. James Lane Allen
1918. With frontispiece. Allen was born on a farm near Lexington, Kentucky. As a young boy, he lived the life of the Southern ante-bellum gentry, but by the time he was a teenager the Civil War and Reconstruction had ushered in a new era for both
The Turquoise Cup And The Desert. Arthur Cosslett Smith
""My lord,"" said the cardinal, ""if the cup were mine, I have a fancy that I would give it to you, with my blessing and my best wishes; but when you ask me to sell it to you, it is as though you asked your queen to sell you the Kohinoor. She dare
The Redemption of David Corson. Charles Frederic Goss
1900. American clergyman and novelist begins: Hidden away in this worn and care-encumbered world, scarred with its frequent traces of a primeval curse, are spots so quiet and beautiful as to make the fall of man seem incredible, and awaken in the
Концы в воду. Николай Дмитриевич Ахшарумов
Детективная история, которая легла в основу романа "Концы в воду", под стать современным произведениям. Внезапная смерть молодой
Рассказы. Повести. 1894-1897. А. П. Чехов
В девятый том входят рассказы и повести Чехова 1892–1894 годов. Три года Супруга Белолобый Ариадна Убийство Анна на шее Дом с мезонином
Гулящие люди. Алексей Павлович Чапыгин
В романе "Гулящие люди" отражены события, предшествовавшие крестьянскому восстанию под руководством Степана Разина. Заканчивается
Мой принц. Л. А. Чарская
Я хочу сказать еще что-то и не могу... Мои мысли кружатся, как огненные птицы, и душа моя горит, как в огне. Смутные образы встают передо
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Виктор Вавич (Книга 1). Б. С. Житков
Роман "Виктор Вавич" Борис Степанович Житков (1882-1938) считал книгой своей жизни. Работа над ней продолжалась больше пяти лет. При жизни