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A Guide to Modern Cookery (Le Guide Culinaire) Part I: Fundamental Elements
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Auguste Escoffier
Le Guide Culinaire can be regarded as the ‘Bible’ of modern cooking. It was Escoffier's attempt to codify and streamline the French restaura…
The Black Experience in America, 18th-20th Century, Vol. 1
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Various
This is not the copyrighted work by Norman Coombs currently on Project Gutenberg but a collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, an…
Days with the Great Composers
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May Gillington Byron
An imagined day in the life of each composer gives the anonymous author scope to describe each one's work and life, sketchily, of course, bu…
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1
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Charles Mackay
The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philoso…
Literary Taste: How to Form It
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Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 descri…
The Tosa Diary
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No Tsurayuki Ki
Ki no Tsurayuki was a Japanese waka poet of the Heian period. In 905, he was one of the poets ordered to compile the "Kokinshu - Collec…
The Europeans
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Henry James
The Europeans: A sketch is a short novel by Henry James, published in 1878. It is essentially a comedy contrasting the behaviour and attitud…
Principles of Economics, Book 3: On Wants and Their Satisfaction
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Alfred Marshall
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…
Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 1 (The North Wind and the Sun)
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Aesop
A celebration of all the wonderful dialects and accents found within the LibriVox community!The goal being to record a 'phonetically relevan…
Johnny Reb and Billy Yank
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Alexander Hunter
Johnny Reb & Billy Yank is an epic novel first published in 1905 by Alexander Hunter, a soldier who served in Confederate General Robert…
Principles of Economics, Book 4: The Agents of Production
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Alfred Marshall
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…
Three Soldiers
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John Dos Passos
Three Soldiers is a 1920 novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First Worl…
Wild Life in Woods and Fields
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Arabella B. Buckley
Wild Life in Woods and Fields by Arabella B. Buckley is a collection of stories that will encourage children to become little naturalists an…
Children of the Ghetto
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Israel Zangwill
In this 1892 novel of London's Jewish East End, Israel Zangwill sets the apparently irrational and decidedly indecorous religious practices …
The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln
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Francis Fisher Browne
This detailed biography covers the places in Lincoln's life: Indiana, Illinois, Washington. It also traces his various roles as storekeeper,…
Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts
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Frank R. Stockton
Buccaneers is non-fiction, a highly readable history of how piracy began and spread throughout the region in response to the plundering of S…
Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions
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Frank Harris
Consumers of biography are familiar with the division between memoirs of the living or recently dead written by those who "knew" t…
The New Organon Or True Directions Concerning The Interpretation of Nature
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Francis Bacon and Sir Francis Bacon
The Novum Organum is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon published in 1620. The title translates as "new instrument". This is a …
The Chemical History of A Candle
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Michael Faraday
The Chemical History of a Candle is a series of 6 lectures on chemistry presented to a juvenile audience in 1848. Taught by Michael Faraday …
Three Essays on Religion
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John Stuart Mill
The Three Essays on Religion were written at different times during Mill's life, and only published after his death. The first two, 'Nature'…