Michele Fry
Optimism, An Essay
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Helen Keller
Though blind, deaf, and left-handed too, it seemed nothing could hold Helen Keller back. For her graduation from Radcliffe College in 1903, …
Voices Of The Night - And Other Poems
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Longfellow's first collection of early poems, published in 1895, with a short biography by the editor, a chronological list of his works, pl…
The Crock of Gold
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James Stephens
This is a comic novel written by Irish author James Stephens, a quick-witted storyteller whose pantheistic philosophy is revealed in his adu…
Mongan's Frenzy
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James Stephens
James Stephens is famous for his retellings of Irish myths and fairy tales. This tale is about 1.5 hours in length, full of magical lore and…
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…
I Worked for Lucky Luciano
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Anonymous
A few years after the fall of Chicago’s Al Capone in 1931, Italian born gangster Charles “Lucky” Luciano took the throne as the American Maf…
Deirdre
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James Stephens
Beautiful, playful young Deirdre, caught in the crosshairs of Ireland's wily, chauvinistic King Conachur, who desires to marry her after his…
A Rival of the Yosemite – The Cañon of the south fork of King’s River, California
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John Muir
This article, a walking tour of the Cañon including many charcoal illustrations, was published in the Century Illlustrated Monthly Ma…