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The Man Whom the Trees Loved

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Algernon Blackwood


The story of a man’s deep connection with nature and his wife’s fear of it. –Summary by Amy Larch Gramour

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Collected Translations

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Omar Khayyám


The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام) is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of…

The Wendigo

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Algernon Blackwood


Another camper tale, this time set in the Canadian wilderness. A hunting party separates to track moose, and one member is abducted by the W…

A Romance of Two Worlds

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Marie Corelli


The book starts with a young heroine telling her story of coping with a debilitating illness that includes depression and thoughts of suicid…

Amphibians and Reptiles in Captivity

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Robert N Bader, Donald J Coxwell and Thomas R. Johnson


In recent years the number of people interested in keeping amphibians and reptiles in captivity has grown rapidly. All too often, these same…

PART I CHAPTER VI THE LOVE-LETTERS OF A ROMANTIC

In The Secret of Charlotte Brontë

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Frederika Richardson Macdonald


Twenty years ago, now, I attempted (but was not especially successful in the task) to establish upon the personal knowledge that my own resi…

Lesson 4. Monkeys

In The Elements of Mammalogy

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William Ruschenberger


The Elements of Mammalogy is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This s…

Chapter 24 Refraction and Reflection of Light

In The Reason Why

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Robert Kemp Philp


This collection of useful information on "Common Things" is put in the interesting form of "Why and Because," and compre…

Beyond Pandora

In Short Science Fiction Collection 052

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Robert J. Martin


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

Chapter 15

In Rezanov

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Gertrude Atherton


This novel by the prolific Californian author Gertrude Horn Atherton is based on the real life story of Nikolai Rezanov, a man who, in 1806,…

The Listeners - Read by AG

In The Listeners

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Walter De la Mare, Walter de la Mare and Walter De La Mare


This year's Hollowe'en offering is an eerie tale by Walter de La Mare. ( David Lawrence )

The Third Part. Chapter I

In The Natural History of Chocolate

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D. de Quelus, D. De Quelus and D. De Quelustranslated Byrichard Brookes


The Natural History of Chocolate being a Distinct and Particular Account of the Cocoa-tree, its Growth and Culture, and the Preparation, Exc…

Reminiscent

In Renascence: A Book of Verse

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Walter Crane


Walter Crane is better known as an artist and illustrator of children’s books. His illustrations defined a whole genre which influenced the…

SECTION XVIII. CLASSIFICATION AND NOMENCLATURE

In The Elements of Botany

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Asa Gray


The book is intended to ground beginners in Structural Botany and the principles of vegetable life, mainly as concerns Flowering or Phanerog…

Observ. XXVIII.

In Micrographia

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Robert Hooke


Published in 1665, this is the first publication of the Royal Society and considered to be the first scientific best-seller. As opposed to t…