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The Worst Journey in the World, Vol. 1

In 1910, Cherry-Garrard and his fellow explorers travelled by sailing vessel, the Terra Nova, from Cardiff to McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. "Cherry" was...

The Worst Journey in the World, Vol. 1

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys

Fairy Tale

A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1851) is a children's book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne in which he retells several Greek myths. It was fo...

A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wild Life on the Rockies

Non-Fiction Biography

"This book contains the record of a few of the many happy days and novel experiences which I have had in the wilds. For more than twenty years it has...

Wild Life on the Rockies

Enos Abijah Mills

What Maisie Knew

Novel

When Beale and Ida Farange are divorced, the court decrees that their only child, the very young Maisie, will shuttle back and forth between them, spe...

What Maisie Knew

Henry James

The War of Antichrist with the Church and Christian Civilization

Political Science

The War of Anti-Christ with the Church and Christian Civilization is a book written in 1885 by an Irishman, George F. Dillon, DD. It was republished b...

The War of Antichrist with the Church and Christian Civilization

George Francis Dillon

The Village Coquettes

Comedy Novel

It is a short play in two acts with musical numbers interspersed throughout. Think of it as akin to an episode of a modern sitcom with music ... mindl...

The Village Coquettes

Charles Dickens

Uncle's Dream

Novel

Uncle’s Dream by Fyodor Dostoyevsky was written following his five year exile to Siberia where he was sent to serve in a hard labor camp. Following wh...

Uncle's Dream

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Trumpet Major

Romance Novel

The novel is set in Weymouth during the Napoleonic wars; the town was then anxious about the possibility of invasion by Napoleon. Of the two brothers,...

The Trumpet Major

Thomas Hardy

The Trees of Pride

Crime

Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as superstit...

The Trees of Pride

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Through the Magic Door

Novel

Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Through the Magic Door” was serialized in 1906-07 when he was 48. His famous Sherlock Holmes stories appeared in The Strand Maga...

Through the Magic Door

Arthur Conan Doyle

Tender Buttons

Poetry

Tender Buttons is a 1914 book by American writer Gertrude Stein consisting of three sections titled "Objects", "Food", and "Rooms". While the short bo...

Tender Buttons

Gertrude Stein

The Subjection of Women

Essays

The Subjection of Women is an essay by English philosopher, political economist and civil servant John Stuart Mill published in 1869, with ideas he de...

The Subjection of Women

John Stuart Mill

A Student's History of American Literature

History

Engaging history of American Lit from the 1600's up through the late 1890's. The author, who was a professor at Knox College, really put a lot into th...

A Student's History of American Literature

William Simonds

Station Life in New Zealand

History Memoir Non-Fiction

STATION LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND is a fascinating account of the time Lady Mary Anne Barker lived on a sheep station on the south island of New Zealand. It...

Station Life in New Zealand

Mary Anne Barker

Slabs of the Sunburnt West

Poetry

Thirty-two poems about life in the American Midwest, focusing on the city of Chicago, Illinois.

Slabs of the Sunburnt West

Carl Sandburg

Robert Browning

Biography

There is an old anecdote, probably apocryphal, which describes how a feminine admirer wrote to Browning asking him for the meaning of one of his darke...

Robert Browning

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1A

History

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is a book written by Jefferson Davis, who served as President of the Confederate States of Amer...

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1A

Jefferson Davis

Richard I

Biography

There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous...

Richard I

Jacob Abbott

Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany

Essays

Revolution and Counter-Revolution is an account of what happened in Prussia, Austria and other German states during 1848, describing the impact on bot...

Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany

Friedrich Engels

The Reign of King Edward the Third

History

The Raigne of King Edward the Third, commonly shortened to Edward III, is an Elizabethan play printed anonymously in 1596, and probably partly written...

The Reign of King Edward the Third

William Shakespeare

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