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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 17
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Various
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Biographia Literaria
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nominally an autobiography, Biographia Literaria ranges widely across the realms of philosophy, poetry and memoir, in Coleridge's trademark …
Heriot's Choice
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Rosa Nouchette Carey
Mildred wants to start her full life at the age of 28. She is looking forward to it until her brother asks her to come help in his home and …
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 05
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The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Poems
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Hattie Howard
"This poet's ear is so attuned to metric harmony that she must have been born within sound of some osier-fringed brook leaping and hurr…
Sleep-Book
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Leolyn Louise Everett
This is a compilation and publication of sleep-related poetry, exalting the delight of sleep, as well as bemoaning the lack of it. (written …
The Haunted Woman
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David Lindsay
Isabel Loment is engaged to the affectionate, but unemotional, Marshall Stokes. House-hunting for her aunt, she comes to Runhill Court, an a…
Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life, Volume 1
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Margaret O. Oliphant
Catherine Vernon has a firm hand on her family and on the family business. Her plans for her young protege Edward, whom she loves like a son…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102
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"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…
Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life, Volume 2
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Margaret O. Oliphant
Catherine Vernon has a firm hand on her family and on the family business. Her plans for her young protege Edward, whom she loves like a son…
Books Fatal to Their Authors
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Peter Hempson Ditchfield
This is a collection of stories of authors who have lost their fortunes and sometimes their lives after writing a book. The liberty of a per…
Letters to Catherine E. Beecher in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism
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Angelina Emily Grimké
This is a collection of thirteen letters from Angelina Grimké on the subjects of abolitionism and human rights in the United States.
The House with the Twisting Passage
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Marion St. John Webb
When Jenny goes to stay with her Aunt Abby, a caretaker in a grand old manor-house, she discovers a wonderful twisting passage on the second…
Blotted Out
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Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
The story about a young man who immigrates to the US and is contacted by a mysterious woman. - Summary by Howard Skyman
Fidelity
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Susan Glaspell
The small Midwestern town of Freeport was scandalized years ago when Ruth Holland, then a young girl, ran away to the West with a married ma…
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 12
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The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Diana of the Crossways
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George Meredith
Inspired by the real life story of Caroline Norton, a friend of the author's, this book tells about a lively woman who is trapped in a miser…
The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square
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Mrs. Henry De La Pasture
Elizabeth de la Pasture, the author of this work, is the mother of the more well known E. M. Delafield- author of Diary Of A Provincial Lady…
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 07
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The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…