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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…

Lives of Marc' Antonio Bolognese and of Other Engravers of Prints, part 1

In Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 6

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Giorgio Vasari


The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…

Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of Rosebery - Robert Burns

In The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. V: Great Britain - III

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William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey and Various,William Jennings Bryan


In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations…

Introduction

In Cape Cod

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Henry David Thoreau


Cape Cod is one of several excursion books by Henry David Thoreau. The travel itinerary frames his thoughts about geography, natural and loc…

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