Culture & Heritage
The Outcry
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Henry James
The story concerns the contemplated sale of a famous painting by a proud but relatively cash-strapped British aristocrat to a wealthy Americ…
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
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Various
A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry a…
L' anno 3000
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Paolo Mantegazza
Un futuro sistema politico globale. Un confronto tra vecchi sistemi e nuovi approcci nella gestione della nostra convivenza. Pubblicato nel …
African Jungle Tales
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Carl Bender
Carl Bender [1869-1935] was a German-born American missionary in Cameroon. During his years in Africa, he collected folktales which he later…
Myths of Northern Lands
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H. A. Guerber
The aim of this handbook of Northern mythology is to familiarize the English student of letters with the religion of his heathen ancestors, …
The Age of the Motored Things
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Age of the Motored Things by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project…
Minnie's Sacrifice
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Frances E. W. Harper
Minnie, who lives in the South, does not know she is a mulatto. She is sent to the North after her mother's death, and there she marries Lou…
Mémoires d'outre-tombe. Tome 4
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François-René de Chateaubriand
Les dernières années1830_1841Madame la Duchesse de Berry, Arrestation, Procès, Genève et Coppet, Prague, Henri V…
A la plus belle
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Paul Féval, père and Paul Féval, Père
Trilogie, avec "La Fée des Grèves", et "L'Homme de Fer".Suite de « La Fée des Grèves &…
Black Folk Tales
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Erick Berry
This book contains 13 Hausa folktales from Nigeria as retold and also illustrated by Erick Berry, the pen name of Evangel Alenna Champlin wh…
Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams
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Annie Denton Cridge
"Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams" is the first known feminist utopian novel written by a woman. The te…
The Fables of Pilpay
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Abdullah Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ
These moralistic stories within stories date back to the Sanskrit text Panchatantra (200 BC – 300 AD). They were first translated into Arabi…
The Guermantes Way (Le Côté de Guermantes)
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Marcel Proust
Vols. 3 and 4 of Remembrance of Things Past.The hero, Marcel, meets the duchess of Guermantes in the role of his parent's landlady. The hero…
Iolanthe
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W. S. Gilbert
Iolanthe is a fairy banished from fairyland for the crime of marrying a mortal. Her half-fairy, half-human son Strephon is a fairy down to t…
The Black Candle
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Emily Murphy
Emily Murphy wrote about the Vancouver, BC Downtown Eastside and its various residents. This is one of her quotes from the book - "It …
Original Stories from Real Life
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the early promoters of gender equality long before other crusaders took up the cause. She is perhaps best kno…
In Old Plantation Days
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern p…
Voyage en Italie
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François-René de Chateaubriand
Chateaubriand écrit à son ami, monsieur Joubert, aussi à monsieur de Fontanes, il nous relate son voyage dans diff&eacu…
The Mother (Version 2)
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Pearl S. Buck
As with Pearl Buck's most famous 1st novel, The Good Earth, this 2nd book also describes peasant life in rural China about 150 years ago--fr…
Baltimore Hats
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William T. Brigham
It is not impossible that some useful information may be conveyed by this book. Should these pages prove of such service, their cost in labo…