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Joseph Golding's Last Christmas

In Christmas Short Works Collection 2015

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Unknown


This year's Christmas collection of short stories, poems and non-fiction features readings in English, French, German and Romanian - Summary…

Poems and Prose for the Departed Vol. 01

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Various


This is a collection of short poems and readings, both religious and secular, on death and bereavement. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

Merry Clappum Junction

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Arnold Kennedy


This is a jolly little book about a little boy, a dog, a train and a house. But not an ordinary train, oh no, and not an ordinary house eith…

Told after Supper

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Jerome K. Jerome


It is Christmas Eve, and the narrator, his uncle and sundry other local characters are sitting round the fire drinking copious quantities of…

Birds in the Calendar

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Frederick G. Aflalo


Delightful sketches of British wild birds - a bird for every month of the year from the pheasant in January to the robin in December. This c…

The Seven Poor Travellers

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Charles Dickens


One of Dickens' Christmas stories, this was first published as part of the Christmas number of Household Words for 1854. The first chapter r…

The Feast of St. Friend

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Arnold Bennett


In The Feast of St. Friend, a Christmas book, Arnold Bennett shares his views on Christmas as the season of goodwill. As always, Bennett's w…

An Iron Will

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Orison Swett Marden


Orison Swett Marden was well-known at the turn of the 20th century for his inspirational and spiritual books of self-help. This one deals wi…

Self and Self-management: Essays about Existing

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Arnold Bennett


Bennett's essays always provide food for thought and bring a wry smile to the lips. Human nature, it appears, changes little over the ages, …

Cleek of Scotland Yard

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Thomas W. Hanshew


Hamilton Cleek is back - or is he?Margot, Queen of the Apaches (the notorious French criminal gang) has been released on bail and vanished, …

Reminiscences of Captain Gronow

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Rees Howell Gronow


A collection of memoirs about the Peninsular War, the Battle of Waterloo, and society and personalities of Regency London and 19th century P…

Mental Efficiency

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Arnold Bennett


In this light-hearted yet thought-provoking collection of articles, Bennett offers his thoughts on exercising the mind, organising your life…

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 2)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


A collection of twelve short stories featuring Conan Doyle's legendary detective, originally published as single stories in Strand Magazine …

Wuthering Heights (Version 2)

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Emily Brontë


Emily Brontë's only novel, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet…

The Human Machine

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Arnold Bennett


Bennett asks us to consider our brains as the most wonderful machine, a machine which is the only thing in this world that we can control. A…

The Story of Electricity

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John Munro


In the book's preface, the author writes: "Let anyone stop to consider how he individually would be affected if all electrical service …

The Magic City

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E. Nesbit


Philip and Lucy discover that the city Philip has built using toys, books and household objects, has come alive. This is the account of thei…

How to Sing (Meine Gesangskunst)

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Lilli Lehmann


Lilli Lehmann, born Elisabeth Maria Lehmann, was a German operatic soprano of phenomenal versatility. She was also a voice teacher.She wrote…

The Speaking Voice

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Katherine Jewell Everts


From the Preface of The Speaking Voice: principles of training simplified and condensed: "This book offers a method of voice training w…

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

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Edwin Abbott Abbott


Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 science fiction novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. As a satire, Flat…

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