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William, An Englishman
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Cicely Hamilton
William – an Englishman is a 1919 novel by Cicely Hamilton. The novel explores the effect of the First World War on a married couple during …
Harrington
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Maria Edgeworth
Harrington follows the protagonist of the same name who tries to explore his memories in order to understand his views on Jews. It begins wi…
Japanese Fairy World: Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan
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William Elliot Griffis
William Elliot Griffis born in Philadelphia in 1843, was an educator, author and Congregational minister. In 1870 he was invited to go to Ja…
Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages
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Wilhelm Wägner
This volume contains the principal hero-lays of the six great epic cycles of the Teutonic Middle Ages: The Langobardian Legends, the Amelung…
Java Head
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Joseph Hergesheimer
Java Head is a novel of the American merchant marine at the beginning of the great clipper ship era. It is laid in Salem, when that city was…
Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji, Version 2)
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Murasaki Shikibu
Genji Monogatari, or The Tale of Genji, is a Japanese classic novel from the eleventh century. Supposedly commissioned by members of the Imp…
The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt
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Théophile Gautier
The account he gives, in his novel, of the ancient city of Thebes, of the great necropolis in the valley of Biban el Molûk, of the sub…
Prejudices, First Series
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H. L. Mencken
Mencken sharpens his pen and in a collection of short essays delivers acerbic opinions on issues and persons of the time. Among his targets…
Deutsche Hausmärchen
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Johann Wilhelm Wolf
Johann Wilhelm Wolf war Germanist und Schriftsteller, sein Schwager Wilhelm von Ploennies war Leutnant, Militärschriftsteller und Ü…
Promenades japonaises
Read by Christiane Jehanne
Emile Guimet
Voyage d'Emile Guimet avec Félix Régamey, dessinateur. Regard sur le pays, les paysages, la société, et histoire…
More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
"More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain" fills in the gaps left by the first collection of newspaper articles: "Newspaper Arti…
Stories from the Adirondacks
Read by Roger Melin
Albert A. Young
A collection of five stories all of which take place in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, and most which contain elements of som…
Flor de Santidad. Historia milenaria
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Ramón Del Valle-Inclán and Ramón del Valle-Inclán
Esta historia milenaria cuenta la seducción de una ingenua pastora, Adega, por un peregrino a quien ella identifica con Dios y del qu…
La Main enchantée
Read by Christiane Jehanne
Gérard de Nerval and Gérard De Nerval
La Main enchantée ou "La Main de gloire".Edition 1901. Préface de Jules de Marthold très intéressante.…
Les Natchez
Read by Christiane Jehanne
François-René de Chateaubriand
Voyage en Amérique de Chateaubriand, peuples indiens. Drame « cornélien », un très beau roman : amour, amit…
Stories of the Scottish Border
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William Platt
Nothing seems to be known about Mr and Mrs William Platt, the writers of Stories of the Scottish Border. What they produced is an eccentric …
Ontario Public School Geography
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Unknown
This Ontario Public School textbook, published in 1922, contains some fascinating facts of a world which no longer exists. It seems politica…
On an Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara
Read by Frank Lennon
Samuel Gamble Bayne
This book gives a brief glimpse into the social history of Ireland in the early part of the 20th Century. During his 1902 tour through the n…
The Whys of Cooking
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Janet McKenzie Hill
An entertaining yet informative look at the history of Crisco, its place in the "modern" kitchen, basic recipes and how to set up …