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By Zorra, in the following sketches, is meant a little district in Oxford county, Ontario, some ten miles square, composed of part of East a…

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…

Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 2

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Charles F. Horne

A collection of writings about a variety of men and women from history who were some of the most prominent people around at the time. Marsha…

My Larger Education

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Booker T. Washington

This is a sequel to Washington's first autobiographical book, Up From Slavery, which depicted his early life. He says "This book contai…

Biographies In Sound 56 09 25 The Adventures Of W C Fields

Fred Allen narrates "Magnificent Rogue: The Adventures of W. C. Fields", with clips from many famous personalities recounting thei…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 7

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Giorgio Vasari

The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…

The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States

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Benjamin Griffith Brawley

Noted African-American author and educator, Benjamin Brawley, presents short biographies of other African-Americans in the fields of literat…

Milton

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Thomas Babington Macaulay

John Milton (1608-1674) was an English poet, classicist, and fearless advocate for civil liberty, who served the Commonwealth of England und…

Daughter of the Sky: The Story of Amelia Earhart

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Paul L. Briand, Jr.

This is an engaging biography of the renowned aviator. In his introduction, Briand says, " Amelia Earhart was one of America’s great he…

My First Book (Version 2)

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Various

Have you ever wondered how your favorite author started on his or her writing career? Did they launch themselves wholeheartedly into literat…

You Can't Win

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Jack Black

'You Can't Win' is an autobiography that was serialized in the San Francisco Call and Post (1925). It became so popular that it was publishe…

David Crockett, Scout

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Charles Fletcher Allen

Davy Crockett is one of the legendary heroes of the North American frontier, celebrated in song and story. This is a very accessible account…

The Story of Slavery

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Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington, the author of the following sketch of slavery in America, was himself born a slave, and the story of his life begins w…

The Nobel Prize in 1904

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Various

The Nobel Prizes are international awards bestowed once a year by Scandinavian committees for cultural and scientific advances. They were es…

Beneath the Banner: Being Narratives of Noble Lives and Brave Deeds

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Frederick J. Cross

In this book are over 30 stories by various people about men and women who have done extraordinary things during and often before the time w…

A Book of Sibyls: Mrs. Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs. Opie, Miss Austen

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Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

This book is a biography of four woman authors whose names were well known by readers at the time of its publication (1883) : Anna Barbaud, …

A Group of Famous Women

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Edith Horton

It is a remarkable fact that little attention, if any, has been given to the study of the careers of distinguished women, and the question h…

The Private and Public Life of Abraham Lincoln

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Orville J. Victor

Few men have lived in modern times whose life history is so suggestive as that of Abraham Lincoln. Not that he should have stepped from a lo…

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