A Garland for Girls. Louisa May Alcott
1887. From the author of Little Women, these stories were written for my own amusement during a period of enforced seclusion. The flowers which were my solace and pleasure suggested titles for the tales and gave an interest to the work. If my girls
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Beltane The Smith. Jeffery Farnol
""Messire, I--have hanged many men and--there were women also! I have cut me a tally here on my belt, see--there be many notches--and every notch a life. So now for every life these hands have taken do I vow to save a life an it may be so, and for
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
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Samuel the Seeker. Upton Sinclair
1910. Sinclair, American novelist, essayist, playwright, and short story writer, whose works reflected his socialistic views. Among his most famous books is The Jungle, which launched a government investigation of the meatpacking plants of Chicago,
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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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Sterne. H. D. Traill
Sterne alighted from the York mail, just as Byron ""awoke one morning,"" to ""find himself famous."" Seldom indeed has any lion so suddenly discovered been pursued so eagerly and by such a distinguished crowd of hunters. The chase was remarkable
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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
A History of the United States. John Fiske
1894. With topical analysis, suggestive questions and directions by Frank Alpine Hill. A text for schools by the American philosopher and historian who achieved popularity as a lecturer on history, both early in his career and in his later life.
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
Religion And Health. James J. Walsh
Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1920 года (издательство "Boston: Little, Brown, and company").
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Lyrical Recreations. Samuel Ward
Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1865 года (издательство "New York and London, D. Appleton & co.; Boston, Roberts brothers").
The Poetry of Tennyson. Henry Van Dyke
1893. A collection of essays by Van Dyke, American clergyman, educator and author, on Tennyson and his poetry. He writes in the preface: I believe that Tennyson is one of the great poets,-great in the clarity and beauty and nobility of his style;
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
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My Reminiscences. George Houstoun Reid
Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1917 года (издательство "London, New York [etc.] Cassell and Company, Ltd.").
Some Aspects Of The Greek Genius. Samuel H. Butcher
Essays Comprise: What We Owe To Greece; The Greek Idea Of The State; Sophocles; The Melancholy Of The Greeks; The Written And The Spoken Word; The Unity Of Learning; And The Dawn Of Romanticism In Greek Poetry. Книга представляет
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The Lyric Bough. Clinton Scollard
Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1908 года (издательство "Boston: Sherman, French & company").
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Human Nature In Politics. Graham Wallas
If he had been pressed, Macaulay would probably have admitted that there are cases in which human acts and impulses to act occur independently of any idea of an end to be gained by them. If I have a piece of grit in my eye and ask some one to take
The Great Valley. Edgar Lee Masters
1916. A collection of verse from the American poet and novelist who practiced law for nearly thirty years and is best remembered for Spoon River Anthology, a series of poems about his boyhood experiences in western Illinois, and the book that would