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Frank Richard Stockton (April 5 1834 ? April 20 1902) was an American writer and humorist best known today for a series of innovative childrens fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. Stockton avoided the didactic moralizing common to childrens stories of the time instead using clever humor to poke at greed violence abuse of power and other human foibles ...
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A Journal Of The Plague Year by Daniel Defoe. In 1665 the plague swept through London claiming over 97 000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague but he later called on his own memories as well as his writing experience to create this vivid chronicle of the epidemic and its victims. A Journal 1722 follows Defoe s fictional narrator as he traces the devastating progress of the ...
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the site is interesting indeed but difficult to anderstand how to read the full text.
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What did our ancestors dream of when they gazed up at the stars and looked beyond the present? Wildly imaginative but grounded in reasoned scientific speculation A Journey in Other Worlds races far ahead of the nineteenth century to imagine what life would be like in the year 2000. At the beginning of the twenty-first century Earth is effectively a corporate technocracy with big businesses using ...
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Journey to the Center of the Earth is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre de la Terre). The story involves a professor who leads his nephew and hired guide down a volcano in Iceland to the center of the Earth. They encounter many adventures including prehistoric animals and natural hazards eventually coming to the surface again ...
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Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24 1842 - after 1913) was an American editorialist journalist short story writer fabulist and satirist. Today he is best known for his short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and his satirical lexicon The Devils Dictionary. The sardonic view of human nature that informed his work ? along with his vehemence as a critic with his motto nothing matters ? earned him ...
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Deschooling Society (1971) is a book that brought Ivan Illich to public attention. It is a critical discourse on education as practised in modern economies. Full of detail on programs and concerns the books assertions remain as radical today as they were at the time. Giving examples of the ineffectual nature of institutionalized education Illich posited self-directed education supported by ...
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Eino Leino was a Finnish poet and journalist and is considered one of the pioneers of Finnish poetry. His poems combine modern and Finnish folk elements. The style of much of his work is like the Kalevala and folk songs. Nature love and despair are frequent themes in Leinos work. He is beloved and widely read in Finland today.
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Jaccuse?! est le titre dun article rdig par mile Zola lors de laffaire Dreyfus et publi dans le journal LAurore du 13 janvier 1898 sous forme dune lettre ouverte au Prsident de la Rpublique Flix Faure. Zola sest appuy en partie sur un dossier crit en 1896 par lcrivain Bernard Lazare.Jaccuse?! parat deux jours aprs lacquittement dEsterhazy par le conseil de guerre (11 janvier) qui semble ruiner ...
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En dcembre 1858 refus par linstitution jsuite de Vaugirard Jack fils adultrin dIda de Barancy une demi-mondaine choue dans le collge insalubre du multre Moronval. Ida succombe au charme dun des professeurs le rimailleur dArgenton et quitte son riche amant pour son pote. Jack senfuit du collge et rejoint le couple aprs maintes tribulations. Lintelligence de lenfant se dveloppe au contact du ...
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On cover: Vingt-huitieme mille.
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A Jolly Fellowship
[english | 1880]Frank Stockton
Frank Richard Stockton (April 5 1834 ? April 20 1902) was an American writer and humorist best known today for a series of innovative childrens fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. Stockton avoided the didactic moralizing common to childrens stories of the time instead using clever humor to poke at greed violence abuse of power and other human foibles ...
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A Journal Of The Plague Year
[english | ]Daniel Defoe
A Journal Of The Plague Year by Daniel Defoe. In 1665 the plague swept through London claiming over 97 000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague but he later called on his own memories as well as his writing experience to create this vivid chronicle of the epidemic and its victims. A Journal 1722 follows Defoe s fictional narrator as he traces the devastating progress of the ...
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A Journey From This World To The Next
[english | 1749]Henry Fielding
the site is interesting indeed but difficult to anderstand how to read the full text.
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A Journey In Other Worlds
[english | 1894]John Jacob Astor
What did our ancestors dream of when they gazed up at the stars and looked beyond the present? Wildly imaginative but grounded in reasoned scientific speculation A Journey in Other Worlds races far ahead of the nineteenth century to imagine what life would be like in the year 2000. At the beginning of the twenty-first century Earth is effectively a corporate technocracy with big businesses using ...
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A Journey Into The Interior Of The Earth
[english | 1877]Jules Verne
Journey to the Center of the Earth is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre de la Terre). The story involves a professor who leads his nephew and hired guide down a volcano in Iceland to the center of the Earth. They encounter many adventures including prehistoric animals and natural hazards eventually coming to the surface again ...
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A Jug Of Sirup
[english | ]Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24 1842 - after 1913) was an American editorialist journalist short story writer fabulist and satirist. Today he is best known for his short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and his satirical lexicon The Devils Dictionary. The sardonic view of human nature that informed his work ? along with his vehemence as a critic with his motto nothing matters ? earned him ...
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J Cole
[english | ]Emma Gellibrand
Deschooling Society (1971) is a book that brought Ivan Illich to public attention. It is a critical discourse on education as practised in modern economies. Full of detail on programs and concerns the books assertions remain as radical today as they were at the time. Giving examples of the ineffectual nature of institutionalized education Illich posited self-directed education supported by ...
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Jaana Rnty
[english | 1907]Eino Leino
Eino Leino was a Finnish poet and journalist and is considered one of the pioneers of Finnish poetry. His poems combine modern and Finnish folk elements. The style of much of his work is like the Kalevala and folk songs. Nature love and despair are frequent themes in Leinos work. He is beloved and widely read in Finland today.
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Jaccuse
[french | 1898]Emile Zola
Jaccuse?! est le titre dun article rdig par mile Zola lors de laffaire Dreyfus et publi dans le journal LAurore du 13 janvier 1898 sous forme dune lettre ouverte au Prsident de la Rpublique Flix Faure. Zola sest appuy en partie sur un dossier crit en 1896 par lcrivain Bernard Lazare.Jaccuse?! parat deux jours aprs lacquittement dEsterhazy par le conseil de guerre (11 janvier) qui semble ruiner ...
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Jack
[french | 1876]Alphonse Daudet
En dcembre 1858 refus par linstitution jsuite de Vaugirard Jack fils adultrin dIda de Barancy une demi-mondaine choue dans le collge insalubre du multre Moronval. Ida succombe au charme dun des professeurs le rimailleur dArgenton et quitte son riche amant pour son pote. Jack senfuit du collge et rejoint le couple aprs maintes tribulations. Lintelligence de lenfant se dveloppe au contact du ...
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Jack Harkaway And His Son Escape From The Brigands Of Greece
[english | ]Bracebridge Hemyng
On cover: Vingt-huitieme mille.
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