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A Photograph Of The Soul

  [english | ]  

Daniel Clark

Summary: [Daniel is the central protagonist of the Book of Daniel. According to the biblical book at a young age Daniel was carried off to Babylon where he became famous for interpreting dreams and rose to become one of the most important figures in the court.]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 26

A Phyllis Of The Sierras

  [english | 1888]  

Bret Harte

Summary: [A Phyllis Of The Sierras by Bret Harte. A Phyllis of the Sierras is presented here in a high quality kindle edition. This popular classic work by Bret Harte is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Bret Harte then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.]
Genres: [western] Downloads: 495

A Piece Of Red Calico

  [english | ]  

Frank Stockton

Summary: [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 ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 159

A Pirate Of The Caribbees

  [english | 1893]  

Harry Collingwood

Excerpts: [... peered into it, endeavouring to pierce the veil of fog that formed its farther extremity, I suddenly became aware of a vague shape indistinctly perceptible ...... before sunset, orders were given to throw the main-deck guns overboard, it became borne in upon me that matters were becoming mighty serious with us. With ...... giving her a parting cheer as she vanished. The captain ...]
Genres: [pirate tales | nautical | adventure] Downloads: 219

A Place In The Sun

  [english | 1956]  

Stephen Marlowe

Summary: [Matryonas Place () sometimes translated as Matryonas Home (or House) is a novella written in 1959 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The story is narrated in the first person by a former prisoner of the gulag and a teacher of mathematics as was Solzhenitsyn at time. The narrator who has a longing to return to live in the Russian provinces takes a job at a school on a collective farm. Matryona offers him ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 466

A Place So Foreign

  [english | 2000]  

Cory Doctorow

Summary: [A Place So Foreign and Eight More is a collection of short stories by Cory Doctorow. Six of these stories were released electronically under a Creative Commons license. A paperback edition was issued in New York by publisher Four Walls Eight Windows in 2003 with ISBN 1-56858-286-2. The collection features an introduction by Bruce Sterling and includes 0wnz0red which was nominated for the 2003 ...]
Genres: [short story | post 1930 | creative commons] Downloads: 11

A Plain Cookery Book For The Working Classes

  [english | 1852]  

Charles Elm Francatelli

Excerpts: [... OF THIS EBOOK PLAIN COOKERY BOOK ***. Produced by Chris Curnow, Jana Srna . PHILLIPS & COMPY.,. TEA MERCHANTS,. 8, KING WILLIAM STREET, CITY, ...... mint may be strewn over the soup when eaten. No. 6. ONION SOUP FOR SIX PERSONS. Chop fine six onions, and fry them in a gallon saucepan with two ...... up each egg into about ten pieces of equal size, and put them into some ...]
Genres: [cooking] Downloads: 229

A Plan For Colonial Union

  [english | ]  

Benjamin Franklin

Summary: [A Plan For Colonial Union by Benjamin Franklin. A Plan for Colonial Union is a series of letters though first published in 1766 were dated late in 1754 the year that the actual fighting of the French and Indian War began in the Ohio Valley. They were addressed to William Shirley 1694-1771 governor of Massachusetts. In June and July of 1754 Franklin had attended the Albany Conference where ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 242

A Plea For Captain John Brown

  [english | 1859]  

Henry David Thoreau

Summary: [Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau July 12 1817 ? May 6 1862) was an American author poet abolitionist naturalist tax resister development critic surveyor historian philosopher and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings and his essay Civil Disobedience an argument for individual resistance to civil ...]
Genres: [non fiction] Downloads: 69

A Plea For Old Cap Collier

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Irvin Cobb

Excerpts: [... her own, I ran across an ancient Fifth Reader, all tattered and stained and having that smell of age which is common to old books and old sheep. I took ...... broad, free strokes, which is the only satisfactory way to scratch. In our town they didn't spend Sunday they kept the Sabbath, which is a very different ...... cruel, gloating eyes. I say cruel advisedly, because up to a ...]
Genres: [satire | essays] Downloads: 363

A Plea For The Christians By Athenagoras

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Athenagoras

Excerpts: [... That we are not atheists, therefore, seeing that we acknowledge one God, uncreated, eternal, invisible, impassible, incomprehensible, illimitable, ...... that we shall suffer no such great evil here, even should our lives be taken from us, compared with what we shall there receive for our ...... images? If, indeed, matter and God are the same, two names for one thing, then ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 112

A Plot For Murder

  [english | ]  

Fredric Brown

Summary: [Ex-newspaperman finds crime going on based on radio scripts he wrote. Also published as Murder Can Be Fun.]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 469

A Pluralistic Universe

  [english | 1909]  

William James

Summary: [Essays in radical empiricism: Does consciousness exist? A world of pure experience. The thing and its relations. How two minds can know one thing. The place of affectional facts in a world of pure experience. The experience of activity. The essence of humanism. La notion de conscience.--A pluralistic universe: The types of philosophic thinking. Monistic idealism. Hegel and his method. Concerning]
Genres: [philosophy] Downloads: 98

A Poetical Olio

  [english | ]  

Elizabeth Beverley

Excerpts: [... salubrious air. Here, harmless pleasure holds her sway Each face we meet is bright as day- No gloom-all joyous as the morn, When sol's first ...... part ? My constancy thou need'st not fear Thy Henry boasts a faithful heart. Or dost thou fear the sea's rough wave, May ...... dear treasure to obtain. His laurels at her feet were laid: My life ! my Anna, e'er command Sweetly smil'd ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 37

A Point In Morals

  [english | ]  

Ellen Glasgow

Summary: [The shadowy third.--Dares gift.--The past.--Whispering leaves.--A point in morals.--The difference.--Jordans end.]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 301

A Police Patriotic Demonstration Made to Order

  [english | 1903]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [In the April Theses therefore Lenin called for a struggle for a socialist program based on the independent action of the working class. Its main elements were: No Support for the Provisional government. Fight for the Soviets to take power. End the war. Confiscate the big estates. Nationalize the banks. Establish workers control of industry. Replace the police and army with a workers ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 294

A Politica Intercolonial E Internacional E O Tratado De Lourenco Marques

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Carlos Testa

Excerpts: []
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 413

A Political And Social History Of Modern Europe V 1

  [english | ]  

Carlton H Hayes

Excerpts: [... except England, was marked in the seventeenth century by a continued growth of monarchical power. The kings were busily engaged in strengthening ...... Louis and William III, with a view to maintaining the balance of power and preventing either France or Austria from unduly increasing its power. ...... their pulpits a royal declaration permitting the sinful practices of dancing on ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 280

A Political Diary 1828 1830 Volume Ii

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Edward Law lord Ellenborough

Excerpts: [... make peace. No communication to that effect has been made officially to them. The French and Russian Ministers at the Conference said they could ...... of Kent telling her a Bengal cavalry cadetship was at her disposal for the son of Colonel Harvey. There is a very interesting letter from ...... over, and all would be quiet when he went away. The King seemed relieved since the ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 119

A Political History Of The State Of New York Volumes 1 3

  [english | ]  

Dealva Stanwood Alexander

Summary: [A Political History Of The State Of New York Volumes 1 3 by Dealva Stanwood Alexander. This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 375