Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius. Samuel Dill
1904. Contents: Aristocracy Under the Terror; World of the Satirist; Society of the Freedmen; Circle of the Younger Pliny; Municipal Life; Colleges and Plebeian Life; Philosophic Director; Philosophic Missionary; Philosophic Theologian;
Travel And Politics In Armenia (1914). Noel Buxton
And A Contribution On Armenian History And Culture By Aram Raffi. Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1914 года (издательство "London, Smith, Elder & co.").
Cheerful, By Request. Edna Ferber
Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1918 года (издательство "Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company").
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The Autobiography of a Quack and Other Stories. S. Weir Mitchell
1915. From the Introduction: The first two tales in this little volume appeared originally in the Atlantic Monthly as anonymous contributions. I owe to the present owners of that journal permission to use them. The Autobiography of a Quack has been
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The Bright Shawl. Joseph Hergesheimer
1922. American novelist Hergesheimer has been called a naturalist writing of the romantic past. He is also the author of short stories, essays, biographies, and the autobiography, From an Old House. The Bright Shawl begins: When Howard Gage had
A Practical Physiology. Albert F. Blaisdell
We have just learned that the pitch of sound depends on the rapidity of the vibrations. This depends on the length of cords and their tightness for the shorter and tighter a string is, the higher is the note which its vibration produces. The vocal
Henry Ward Beecher. Lyman Abbott
Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887) was a prominent, Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th century. An 1875 adultery trial in which he was accused of having an affair with a
Martin Eden. Jack London
1908. With Frontispiece by the Kinneys. American writer (real name John Griffith London). London grew up in poverty, earning a living through various legal and illegal means. He was a sailor and took part in the Klondike gold rush. These
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On the Study and Difficulties of Mathematics. Augustus De Morgan
1910. Augustus De Morgan was an important innovator in the field of logic. In addition, he made many contributions to the field of mathematics and the chronicling of the history of mathematics. He writes in the Preface that his object has been to
The Advance Of English Poetry In The Twentieth Century. William Lyon Phelps
Robert Browning, whose normality in appearance and conversation pleased sensible folk and shocked idolaters, summed up in two stanzas the difference between the popular conception of a poet and the real truth. One might almost take the first stanza
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The Mammon of Unrighteousness. Hjalmar Hjorth Boyeson
1891. The novel begins: I mean to be true to myself-true to my convictions, ejaculated Alexander Larkin, impetuously, and the echo flung back the words with the same impetuosity from the rock opposite. I mean to succeed, said Horace, his brother,
Music. Mary Weeks Burnett
Principles of Occult Healing: A Working Hypothesis Which Includes All Cures, by Mary Weeks Burnett. Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1891 года (издательство "London: Augener").
Ruggles of Red Gap. Harry Leon Wilson
1915. The humorous tale of a English valet who moves to an American town. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read. Книга представляет собой
The War Romance Of The Salvation Army. Evangeline Booth
He went on. He dozed, only to be sharply awakened by a truck which almost ran him down. He must be more careful, he thought to himself, feeling utterly alone and miserable. But in spite of his resolution his eyes soon closed again. He was awakened,
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Tremendous Trifles. G. K. Chesterton
So it was, certainly, with the Bastille. The destruction of the Bastille was not a reform; it was something more important than a reform. It was an iconoclasm; it was the breaking of a stone image. The people saw the building like a giant looking