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American Fairy Tales

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L. Frank Baum


This collection of fantasy stories was originally serialized in regional newspapers, prior to being published as a complete volume. The stor…

Tarzan and the Ant Men

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Edgar Rice Burroughs


Lord Greystoke, Tarzan of the Apes, is embroiled in thrilling adventures among the tiny, warlike Minunians. (Summary by Matthew Reece)

The Autobiography of Methuselah

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John Kendrick Bangs


A satirical look at early biblical events from the point of view of someone who was there to witness most of them: the oldest man in recorde…

Elves and Heroes

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Donald Alexander Mackenzie


This volume describes, in verse, the mythical creatures and people of ancient Scotland. It also includes explanatory notes about about the c…

Prevention of blindness

In Five Lectures on Blindness

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Kate M. Foley


The [five] lectures were written primarily to be delivered at the summer sessions of the University of California, at Berkeley and at Los An…

07 - Science and Art Under Socialism

In Proposed Roads to Freedom

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Bertrand Russell


Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872 – 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, political activist and Nobel laureate. …

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In Aurora Floyd

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Aurora Floyd, the daughter of a rich banker and an actress, could not have had a better start: back from a finishing school in Paris, she is…

04 - The Story of Caliph Stork

In The Green Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang


Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Altho…

Excerpt from 'The American Ornithological Biography'

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 02

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John James Audubon


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…

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In Morning and Evening: Daily Readings

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Charles H. Spurgeon


Organized by week, this devotional has a morning and evening meditation for every day of the year. Although these devotions are short in len…

Why Babe Ruth Is Greatest Home Run Hitter

In American Psychology, 1900-1922

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Hugh Fullerton


This is the first of what is intended to be three projects featuring journal articles which chart the development of psychology as an academ…

The Sealed Room

In Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 5

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Julian Hawthorne, ed. and Bernhard Severin Ingemann


In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious s…

Who is Einstein? How to Lose Weight, A Substitute for Gravity

In Easy Lessons in Einstein

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Edwin E. Slosson


Published in 1920, Slosson’s Easy Lessons in Einstein is one of the first popularizations of Einstein’s theory of relativity. This book is m…