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A Queen

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Ottilie Wildermuth


Maggie is an orphan who depends on the charity of the farmer she lives with. She tries to be cheerful and helpful to everyone where she is. …

Preface & Introductory Note

In The Elements of Geology

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William Harmon Norton


Geology is a science of such rapid growth that no apology is expected when from time to time a new text-book is added to those already in th…

A Bad Five Minutes in the Alps

In LibriVox 5th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1

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Leslie Stephen


What do you do for a fifth anniversary? We decided to have a collection of short works with a difference. We challenged our readers to find …

24 - Chapter XXIV: The Artist And His Costume

In Woman as Decoration

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Emily Burbank and Helen M. Urban


A guide for women to complement their dress to their surroundings, be it in their own home, on outings or on stage. (Summary by Julie VW)

On Clerical Snobs

In The Book of Snobs

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W M Thackeray and William Makepeace Thackeray


The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write t…

1-28 - The Borgias: Epilogue

In Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and The Cenci

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Alexandre Dumas [pere] and Alexandre Dumas


Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent …

00 - Preface

In Travels in Alaska

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John Muir


In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded interest, for they enabled him to …

Book 2, Chapter 4

In Off on a Comet

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Jules Verne


The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. Some forty people of various natio…

08 - In which Kin-Fo makes a Serious Proposition to Wang, which the Latter no l…

In The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China

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Jules Verne


The rich and phlegmatic Kin-Fo loses his fortune and decides to die, but not before experiencing some strong emotions. He asks his friend Wa…

Soils

In The Flower Garden: A Handbook of Practical Garden Lore

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Ida Dandridge Bennett


This book is a good reference on the perennial flower gardening and landscaping. It contains information on growing the plants from seed and…

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