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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

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Charles Mackay



The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philoso…

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…

Literary Taste

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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 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

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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…

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…

Ricordi di Parigi

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Edmondo De Amicis



Memoirs of a trip to Paris.

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

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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…

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…

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…

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 …

Reise durch England und Schottland

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Johanna Schopenhauer



1819 gerät das Handelshaus, bei dem Johanna Schopenhauer ihr ganzes Geld angelegt hat, in Zahlungsschwierigkeiten. Beim anschließ…

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

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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 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,…

The New Organon

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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'…

The Awakening of Europe

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M. B. Synge



The Awakening of Europe by M. B. Synge is the third book in the series, Story of the World. Included in this history is a myriad of interest…

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