Books For The Letter A. Page 21 Of 61

An Appeal To The British Nation On The Humanity And Policy

  [english | 1825]  

William Hillary

Excerpts: [... dangers of the adjacent shores, but too frequently combine to place the unhappy mariner beyond the power of human relief. But if all cannot be rescued, ...... a brave and a humane people to the rescue of their fellow-creatures and through the ardent zeal, the generous enterprise, and the liberal bounty of ...... safety for this object, yet nearly the whole of the most extensive and ...]
Genres: [nautical] Downloads: 46

An Appeal To The Christian Women Of The South

  [english | ]  

Angelina Emily Grimke

Excerpts: [... rights among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is even a greater absurdity to suppose a man can be legally born a slave ...... personal Man then, I assert never was put under the feet of man, by that first charter of human rights which was given by God, to the Fathers of ...... keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment. Now my dear friends many of ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 229

An Attempt at a Classification of the Political Parties of Russia

  [english | 1904]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [Returning to Russia on April 3 Lenin arrived in Petrograd during the All-Russian Conference of Bolshevik Party Workers. In his first address to the delegates he advocated uncompromising opposition to the war and the Provisional Government and irreconcilable hostility toward all supporters of both he proposed that the party struggle for the establishment of a proletarian dictatorship. At the same ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 306

An Australian In China

  [english | ]  

G Morrison

Summary: [William Alexander (Alex) Morrison MSC CD (born 1941) is a former Lieutenant Colonel of the Canadian Forces. Born in Sydney Nova Scotia he is a graduate of Xavier Junior College. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1968 from Mount Allison University. He joined the Canadian Forces in 1959 and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1990. While in the CF he completed the year-long course at the ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 116

An Authentic Narrative Of A Haunted House

  [english | 1862]  

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Excerpts: [... and ample relation of a series of marvellous phenoma, in nowise connected with what is technically termed spiritualism, which he has anywhere met with. ...... a railway. Winter was setting in when my removal thither was decided upon but there was nothing whatever dismal or depressing in the change. The house ...... had also their effect in steeling us against any such influence, ...]
Genres: [fiction | ghost | horror] Downloads: 44

An Authenticated Vampire Story

  [english | ]  

Franz Hartmann

Excerpts: [... believed that this was due to the invasion of a vampire, supposed to be the last Count B-, who died and acquired that reputation. The castle was situated ...... ghosts, only a wing of it was used as a dwelling for the caretaker and his wife. Now it so happened that when I read the above notice, I was sitting ...... Hermannstadt, and being engaged in engineering a road through the ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 427

An Authority On Causation Or Causality

  [english | ]  

Charles Mercier

Excerpts: [... 'It is probable' means 'I incline to believe that the statement is true' and corresponds in some cases with 'I think' in others with 'I suspect ...... had been white. According to rule, therefore, it seems that they were justified in entertaining the certain conviction that all swans thereafter ...... in the heart. In many arguments, as for instance in the argument a fortiori, ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 87

An Autobiography

  [english | 1915]  

Catherine Helen Spence

Summary: [A Liars Autobiography (Volume VI) is a mostly true though outlandishly told accounting of the life of Graham Chapman of Monty Python fame. First published in Britain in 1980 it was republished in 1999. Unusually for an autobiography it has five authors: Chapman his partner David Sherlock Alex Martin Douglas Adams and David A. Yallop. Adams sole contribution was in the form of a sketch written by ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 412

An Autobiography Of Buffalo Bill colonel W F Cody

  [english | ]  

Buffalo Bill william Frederick Cody

Summary: [William Frederick Buffalo Bill Cody (February 26 1846 ? January 10 1917) was an American soldier bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory near LeClaire. He was one of the most colorful figures of the American Old West and mostly famous for the shows he organized with cowboy themes. Buffalo Bill received the Medal of Honor in 1872.]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 192

An Deutschlands Jugend

  [german | 1918]  

Walther Rathenau

Summary: [Walther Rathenau (September 29 1867 ? June 24 1922) was a German Jewish industrialist politician writer and statesman who served as Foreign Minister of Germany during the Weimar Republic.]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 172

An Easter Disciple

  [english | 1922]  

Arthur Benton Sanford

Summary: [An Easter Disciple Annotated by Arthur Benton Sanford. In 30 AD the Roman knight Quintus is stationed in Jerusalem. Raised to worship the pagan gods Quintus has begun to long for something more both in this life and the next. Hearing that Jesus will speak at Solomon s Porch the knight goes--and his life is forever changed. A short time later having been away on an assignment for a few fateful ...]
Genres: [religion | fiction and literature] Downloads: 283

An Echo Of Antietam

  [english | 1898]  

Edward Bellamy

Summary: [The blindmans world.--An echo of Antietam.--The old folks party.--The cold snap.--Two days solitary imprisonment.--A summer evenings dream.--Potts painless cure.--A love story reversed.--Deserted.--Hooking watermelons.--A positive romance.--Lost.--With the eyes shut.--At Pinneys ranch.--To whom this may come.]
Genres: [short story | war | romance] Downloads: 65

An Eddy On The Floor

  [english | ]  

Bernard Capes

Summary: [Reprint of the 1899 ed.]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 323

An Egyptian Hornet

  [english | ]  

Algernon Blackwood

Summary: [The tryst.--The touch of Pan.--The wings of Horus.--Initiation.--A desert episode.--The other wing.--The occupant of the room.--Cains atonement.--An Egyptian hornet.--By water.--H. S. H.--A bit of wood.--A victim of higher space.--Transition.--The tradition.]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 48

An Egyptian Princess

  [english | ]  

Georg Ebers

Excerpts: [... and had yet determined on my ruin, I was sentenced to two days' and nights' exposure on the pillory. My foot was chained to it during the night ...... apartments. Only when the most intimate friends and nearest relations are with her husband, does she venture to appear in their midst, and ...... as to the will of a god, this crime will be seen in all its heinousness. The punishment ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 55

An Elementary Course In Synthetic Projective Geometry

  [english | 2005]  

Derrick Norman Lehmer

Excerpts: [... the course all the more easily. The author has had no difficulty, however, in presenting it to students in the freshman class at the University of ...... plane to S. Through S draw a plane at right angles to MS. This meets the given plane in a line m which may be taken as corresponding to the point M. ...... that these conceptions have any essential connection with physical facts, ...]
Genres: [science | post 1930] Downloads: 386

An Elementary Spanish Reader

  [spanish | 1912]  

Earl Stanley Harrison

Summary: [An Elementary Spanish Reader by Earl Stanley Harrison. CONTENTS I. EL CUENTO DEL POLLO II. UN HOMBRE INSACIABLE III. LOS TRES OSOS IV. LOS TRES BARCOS V. EL TESTAMENTO VI. DON JUAN BOLONDR ON VII. BUENA GANGA VIII. EL M EDICO TUNANTE IX. EL PR INCIPE JALMA X. EL PALACIO DE MADRID XI. LAS METAMORFOSIS DEL PICAPEDRERO _Fern an Caballero_ XII. EL CABALLO DE ALIATAR XIII. EL PR INCIPE OSO XIV. ...]
Genres: [language] Downloads: 474

An Empty Bottle

  [english | 1952]  

Mari Wolf

Summary: [They wanted to go home--back to the planet theyd known. But even the stars had changed. Did the fate of all creation hinge upon an--]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 447

An Encounter In Atlanta

  [english | 2003]  

Ed Howdershelt

Summary: [It is an average good reading but with a rather poor and confusing ending.]
Genres: [science fiction | sexuality | post 1930] Downloads: 260

An Enemy Of The People

  [english | ]  

Henrik Ibsen

Summary: [Henrik Ibsen (20 March 1828 ? 23 May 1906) was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright theatre director and poet. He is often referred to as the father of modern drama and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre. His plays were considered scandalous to many of his era when European societies were characterized by strict mores of family life and propriety. Ibsens work examined the ...]
Genres: [drama] Downloads: 186