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"Warren Hastings" is Chapter IV of Thomas Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays, vol. III. It first appeared in the Edinburgh …

Eternity

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Casey S Townsend

The world you know has changed. Science has been replaced by dark, supernatural forces and those that know how have harnessed them to contro…

All Things Considered

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G. K. Chesterton

Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of this day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. These r…

The Search

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Grace Livingston Hill

“On the day the drafted men march away, Ruth MacDonald catches John Cameron's eye and waves to him. In the excitement of the moment they bot…

The Masquerader

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Katherine Cecil Thurston

The Masquerader is one of two Katherine Cecil Thurston’s books that appeared on the Publisher’s Weekly best-seekers list in 1905 (The other,…

Heretics

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G. K. Chesterton

The Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere "rollicki…

The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars

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Bampfylde Moore Carew

The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew recounts the wide-ranging exploits of a real-life rogue – a wily professional mendicant w…

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

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Henry Fielding

Tom Jones is considered one of the first prose works describable as a novel. The novel is divided into 18 smaller books. Tom Jones is a foun…

Putting the Most Into Life

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Booker T. Washington

The chapters in this little book were originally part of a series of Sunday Evening Talks given by the Principal to the students of the Tusk…

Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism

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John Middleton Murry

Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 006

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Various

A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were inde…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 083

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Various

“Oh, mother, I would like to know everything.” “You can never know everything, my child, but you can learn many things from books.” Accordin…

Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers

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John Burroughs

Probably no other American writer has a greater sympathy with, and a keener enjoyment of, country life in all its phases—farming, camping, f…

Industrial Conspiracies

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Clarence Darrow

Publisher's Note.—This address was delivered shortly after Mr. Darrow's triumphant acquittal on a charge growing out of his defense of the M…

Heretics

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G. K. Chesterton

"Heretics," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. First published in 1905. Chesterton had a sense of humor, had a sense …

Strangers And Pilgrims

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Strangers and Pilgrims follows the journey of Elizabeth Lutterell from a vain, beautiful and self-centred although good-hearted 19 year old …

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…

John Thorndyke's Cases

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R. Austin Freeman

Detective John Thorndyke never disappoints when solving crime in this collection of Freeman's works. - Summary by A. K. Morton

Beware, The Usurpers!

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Robert W. Krepps

A sci-fi horror tale in which alien monsters skulk about in human form! William Chester and his comrades find themselves alone in being able…

Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels

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Stephen Leacock

Eight silly stories by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia G)

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