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Ingersoll on THOMAS PAINE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 1, Lec…

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Robert G. Ingersoll


Col. Ingersoll begins his lectures on famous people as follows: [i]"It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of ge…

The Curious Quest

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E. Phillips Oppenheim


A sweet, simple tale of how friendship and honesty triumph over money. The protagonist’s pun of a name—Ernest Bliss—foreshadows the plot in …

Pipefuls

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Christopher Morley


A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course a…

Fame and Fortune Weekly No. 4: A Game of Chance

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Frank Tousey


Will Sommers is a talented young man who currently works in the Engine Room of a factory, but who is quickly becoming an Engineer. He uses h…

Canon In D


Rev Austin Fleming


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Status Quo

Read by Peter Eastman


Dallas Mccord Reynolds and Mack Reynolds


Larry Woolford is a government agent, tasked with investigating subversive activity. He does everything an ambitious young man should do if…

The Blue Envelope

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Roy J. Snell


A mystery and adventure story for girls set in Alaska.

Write it Right

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Ambrose Bierce


Witty, opinionated alphabetical examples of what Bierce considered poor (American) English and advice on alternatives - entertaining, though…

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

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Edwin Abbott Abbott


Math. Geometry. Physics. Violence? Is this the same book I read in school? Yep. One of the joys of rediscovering old books is that they…

Shakspere: Personal Recollections

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John A. Joyce


A fictitious account of a "friend" of William Shakespeare, who accompanies him from his birth to his death and beyond, chronicling…

Petticoat Government, Volume 1

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Frances Milton Trollope


The lives and intrigues of the Jenkyns family and their neighbors, in the cathedral town of Westhampton, 1825. - Summary by Mark Leder

The Free Press

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Hilaire Belloc


I propose to discuss in what follows the evil of the great modern Capitalist Press, its function in vitiating and misinforming opinion and i…

Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13: Great Writers

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John Lord


The 13th in the series, this book focuses on the great writers of the time. As Dr. Lord passed away prior to the completion of his lecture s…

Fame and Fortune Weekly No. 18: Pure Grit

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Frank Tousey


Eric Gordon, though a store clerk and postal worker in a small coastal town in New York, has plenty of optomisim about his abilities in any …

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

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Edwin Abbott Abbott


Math. Geometry. Physics. Violence? Is this the same book I read in school? Yep. One of the joys of rediscovering old books is that they…

The Pickwick Papers (Version 2)

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Charles Dickens


A sportsman who doesn't hunt; a poet who doesn't write; a lover with no one to love; all three are devoted to their cheerful and benevolent …

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories

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H. G. Wells


A collection of Wells' short stories, with a short introductory essay by the author- "Essentially it is a miscellany of inventions, man…

Das Spinnennetz

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Joseph Roth


Theodor Lohse beschließt den 1. Weltkrieg als unbedeutender Leutnant und findet Arbeit als Hauslehrer beim reichen Juden Efrussi. Dort…

An Amiable Charlatan

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E. Phillips Oppenheim


An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…

The Annals of Ann

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Kate Trimble Sharber


As the only “surviving” child of her parents, Ann is considered by close friends and family to be an overly indulged child. Some say she is …

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