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An Adventure

Read by Martha H. Weller

Charlotte Anne Moberly

The Moberly–Jourdain incident was an event that occurred on 10 August 1901 in the gardens of the Petit Trianon, involving two female academi…

The Closed Cabinet

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William James Mcglothlin

Here's Proof of the Love of the Weird and Mysterious in the Eighteenth Century. Eighteen-year-old Evie makes her first grown-up visit to her…

Music

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Ursula Creighton

"So many books are written for beginners on the appreciation of music that I can be thankful that advancing age makes it unnecessary fo…

The Making of Americans

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Gertrude Stein

The Making of Americans is a novel written by Gertrude Stein over a long period of time (1906-1911) and finally published in 1925. It is sub…

Chapter II. The Foreign Policy of Louis XIV (1661-97) by Arthur Hassall (part 1)

In The Cambridge Modern History. Volume 05, The Age of Louis XIV

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Various

The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…

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In Rulers of Kings: A Novel

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Gertrude Atherton

When a child is born, its temperament and character are unknown. The effects of nature versus nurture, of heredity and of circumstance are a…

Letter XXX

In Letters from Hell

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Valdemar Adolph Thisted

"Letters from Hell" is a didactic Christian fantasy novel, with a faint resemblance to C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters.&qu…

VII

In Don Sebastian; or, The House of the Braganza: An Historical Romance, Volume 2

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Anna Maria Porter

Don Sebastian is now king of Portugal, and, although exiled, looks forward to taking his seat on the throne. However, he is held captive by …

The Incendiary Gang, Part 1

In Secret Service; or, Recollections of a City Detective

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Andrew Forrester

This book of fiction from 1864, as you can guess from the title, presents a series of accounts of different cases that the “City Detective” …