Books For The Letter R. Page 1 Of 44

A Raw Recruit War Experiences

  [english | 1888]  

Ansel Nickerson

Excerpts: [... the urgent requests of numerous friends to outweigh his own judgment. It does not assume to be a connected or detailed history of the regiment nor ...... and consequently I kept my plans to myself. A year had passed away, and yet I was not enrolled among the boys in blue. Three hundred thousand nine ...... killed September 1st, 1862, in the battle of Chantilly, Virginia, while ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 447

A Raw Youth

  [english | 1875]  

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

Summary: [The Bold Knight the Apples of Youth and the Water of Life is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki.]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 181

A Raw Youth A Dramatization Of The Dostoevski Novel

  [english | ]  

Frank Morlock

Summary: [Franois-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 ? 30 May 1778) better known by the pen name Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties including freedom of religion and free trade. Voltaire was a prolific writer and produced works in almost every literary form including plays poetry novels essays historical and scientific works ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 236

A Reading Of Life And Other Poems

  [english | ]  

George Meredith

Summary: [A Reading Of Life Other Poems by George Meredith. The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects Fiction Literary ]
Genres: [poetry] Downloads: 376

A Rebours

  [french | 1884]  

Joris Karl Huysmans

Excerpts: [... `a vendre le ch^ateau de Lourps o`u il n'allait plus et o`u il n'oubliait derri`ere lui aucun souvenir attachant, aucun regret il liquida aussi ses autres ...... et les escales des services postaux de l'Atlantique. Puis, quand il 'etait las de consulter ces indicateurs, il se reposait la vue en regardant les ...... les dents, offre des pots de chambre `a la soci'et'e, l'entretient ...]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 394

A Reckless Character

  [english | ]  

Ivan Turgenev

Summary: [Ivan Turgenev Born October 28 1818(1818-10-28)Oryol Russian Empire Died September 3 1883 (aged 64)Bougival Seine-et-Oise Occupation Novelist and Playwright Genres Realism Notable work(s) A Sportsmans Sketches ? Fathers and Sons ? A Month in the Country Influences Shakespeare Goethe Pushkin Belinsky Lermontov Byron Schiller Hegel Schlegel Schopenhauer Bakunin Influenced Theodor Storm Gustave ...]
Genres: [short story collection] Downloads: 194

A Record Of Buddhistic Kingdoms

  [english | 1886]  

Faxian

Summary: [Record Of The Buddhistic Kingdoms by Fa Xian. Translated by Herbert Allen Giles. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1877 edition by Tr ubner Co Kelly Walsh London-Shanghai.]
Genres: [history | religion | travel] Downloads: 404

A Record Of Study In Aboriginal American Languages

  [english | 1898]  

Daniel Brinton

Excerpts: [... review of my own work in the field of American Linguistics requires an apology, I may say that the preparation of it was suggested to me by my late ...... Words in). New York, 1894. 13. Aboriginal American Authors and their Productions, especially those in the Native Languages. pp. 63. Philadelphia, ...... languages, such as the Zoque, display the tendency to energetic ...]
Genres: [language] Downloads: 301

A Refutation Of The Charges Made Against The Confederate

  [english | 1879]  

Horace Edwin Hayden

Summary: [A Refutation Of The Charges Made Against The Confederate States Of America Hayden Horace Edwin by Horace Edwin Hayden. excerpt from the book... EXPLOSIVE AND POISONED MUSKET AND RIFLE BALLS. The following remarkable statement occurs as a note to the account of the battle of Gettysburg on page 78 volume III of The Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of America by Benson J. ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 191

A Relation Of The Apparition Of Mrs Veal

  [english | ]  

Daniel Defoe

Summary: [A Relation Of The Apparition Of Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe. Daniel Defoe 1659 1661 - 24 April 1731 born Daniel Foe was an English writer journalist and pamphleteer who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel as he helped to popularise the form in Britain and is even referred to by some as one of the founders of ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 418

A Rent In A Cloud

  [english | 1882]  

Charles James Lever

Excerpts: [... on it she doesn't care she's over now. Well done, old lady. That back-hander was neatly given and see, she has marshalled her forces ...... in a quiet business-like way, that promised well for the spirit is which his trust would be exercised. Calvert laughed as he laid down the cigar, but ...... point to more work. Tell me of a plan for a holiday, some grand scheme for idleness, ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 66

A Replete Bourgeoisie and a Craving Bourgeoisie

  [english | 1905]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [As stated in his Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism Lenins revolutionary project embraced not just Russia but the world. To implement world revolution the Third or Communist International was convened in Russia in 1919 to replace the discredited Second International. Lenin dominated the first second (1920) and third (1921) Congresses of the International and hoped to use the organisation ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 417

A Reply To Dr Lightfoot Essays

  [english | ]  

Walter Cassels

Excerpts: [... at least may be possible, however little we may agree on other points. It was natural that Dr. Lightfoot should not be averse to preserving the more ...... In vol. ii. p. 420, after again mentioning the rejection of the passage, I proceed to state my own personal belief that the words must have Originally ...... omit to point out that I merely mention the anti-Pauline ...]
Genres: [religion] Downloads: 85

A Report Of Major Hart Case Of Rice Frauds

  [english | 1818]  

W Inglis

Summary: [Brian Inglis (31 July 1916 ? 11 February 1993) was an Irish journalist historian and television presenter. He was born in Dublin Ireland and retained an interest in Irish history and politics.]
Genres: [non fiction] Downloads: 127

A Report On The Feasibility And Advisability Of Some Policy

  [english | 1907]  

George Wingate

Excerpts: [... AMMON B. CRITCHFIELD Of Ohio. PUBLISHED IN ACCORDANCE WITH A RESOLUTION OF THE NATIONAL BOARD FOR THE PROMOTION OF RIFLE PRACTICE. WASHINGTON ...... January 25, 1907, the report of this committee was submitted by Generals Wingate and Critchfield, and is published in accordance with the following ...... assisting to promote interest in rifle practice is lost to the country. This ...]
Genres: [non fiction] Downloads: 443

A Republic Without A President And Other Stories

  [english | 1891]  

Herbert Ward

Summary: [A Republic Without A President And Other Stories Carefully Formatted By Timeless Classic Books by Herbert D Ward. On the morning of the eighth of June 1893 at about ten o clock crowds were seen clustered in front of the daily newspaper bulletins in New York Chicago Philadelphia San Francisco and Boston. The excitement rivalled that occasioned by the assassination of Garfield and by night the ...]
Genres: [short story collection | mysterydetective | thriller] Downloads: 175

A Residence In France During The Years 1792 1793

  [english | 1792]  

An English Lady

Excerpts: [... REMARKS BY THE EDITOR. The following Letters were submitted to my inspection and judgement by the Author, of whose principles and abilities I had ...... hands and they seem to bestow so little attention on their work, that it looks more like the amusement of idleness than an effort of industry. I ...... I have reproached many of the people of this place, who, from their education ...]
Genres: [history | correspondence] Downloads: 483

A Responsible Opposition and the Participation of the Constitutional Democrats in the March 1 Conference

  [english | 1897]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [The honor of beginning the February 1917 revolution fell to the women textile workers of Petrograd on International Womens Day. Indignant at bread rations whilst the capitalists made fabulous war profits and with many of them having husbands and sons at the front 90000 came out on strike. The next day half the industrial workers struck in support. Slogans of Down with the aristocracy down with ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 461

A Retrograde Trend in Russian Social Democracy

  [english | 1908]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [So the Bolsheviks slogans demanded of these parties leaders that they do the job their supporters expected them to do. Their key demands were that the socialists break with the Kadets and take political power into their own hands. The compromisers could easily have done this by declaring the executive of the Soviet the government of the country. The Bolshevik slogans Down with the ten capitalist ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 211

A Retrospect

  [english | ]  

J Hudson Taylor

Excerpts: [... much the work has been advanced by their love, their sympathy, and their prayers. For myself, and for the work that I have been permitted to do for ...... kind friend and employer, it was necessary for me to reside out of doors. Comfortable quarters were secured with a relative, and in addition to the sum ...... and I have never gone through my house, from basement to attic, with ...]
Genres: [religion | travel] Downloads: 255