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The Seven Stairs

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Stuart Brent

An Autobiography of Stuart Brent, who in 1946 followed his bliss and opened an independent bookstore in Chicago, which became very popular a…

The Workers - An Experiment in Reality: The West

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Walter A. Wyckoff

A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the United States as a member of the working class, taking any jo…

Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, Vol II

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Charles Lewis Meryon and Lady Hester Stanhope

Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in Conversation with her Physician, comprising her opinions and anecdotes of some…

Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer

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Dexter C. Bloomer

As Mrs. Bloomer was one of the pioneers in what is sometimes called the “Woman’s Movement,” it seems right that a record of her work should …

The Great Beach

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John Hay

Written by John Hay, a naturalist and co-founder of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, The Great Beach is an exploration into the natur…

Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, Vol III

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Lady Hester Stanhope

Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in Conversation with her Physician, comprising her opinions and anecdotes of some…

Chapter VII

In The Journal of John Woolman

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John Woolman

John Woolman was born at Northampton, N. J., in 1720, and died at York, England, in 1772. He was the child of Quaker parents, and from his y…

The Life of JANE GRIFFIN, who was Executed for the Murder of her Maid, January …

In Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for…

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Arthur L. Hayward

"If there be a haunted spot in London it must surely be a few squareyards that lie a little west of the Marble Arch, for in the long co…

The Tortoise with a Pretty Daughter

In Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa

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Elphinstone Dayrell

A collection of folk stories and fairy tales from Southern Nigeria gathered by Elphinstone Dayrell, deputy commissioner of the region when t…

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