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Old Age And Death

  [english | 1894]  

Giacomo Casanova

Summary: [A Death in White Bear Lake is a true crime book by journalist Barry Siegel published in 1990. The book recounts one of the most notorious cases of child abuse ever prosecuted in the United States the murder of three year-old Dennis Jurgens by his adopted mother Lois Jurgens. The case was significant because the murder was committed in 1965 yet Lois Jurgens was not charged with the crime until ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 146

Old and New

  [english | 1910]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [Over the next twelve years bolshevism which had begun as a faction within the Russian Social-Democratic Workers party gradually emerged as an independent party that had cut its ties with all other Russian Marxists. The process involved long and bitter arguments against Mensheviks as well as against all those who worked to reunite the factions. It involved fights over funds struggles for control ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 142

Old Ballads

  [english | ]  

Various Authors

Summary: [A Collection of Old Ballads is an anonymous book published 1723 - 1725 in three volumes in London by Roberts and Leach. It was the second major collection of British folksongs to be published following Pills To Purge Melancholy (published 1719 - 1720). Ambrose Phillips was once credited as the editor but this has since been challenged. Volume one contained Chevy Chase Queen Eleanors Confession ...]
Genres: [poetry] Downloads: 467

Old Black Magic

  [english | ]  

Bert David Ross

Excerpts: [... Something for a Friend THE biting northeast gale that was disrupting pedestrian traffic at Third and Yesler didn't phase Yukon. It was his first ...... Tower. 'Square Shooter' McGinnis- Say, Yukon, you'll have the ride of your life, goin' up in that fast elevator when you make your first trip outside. ...... He didn't enjoy the ride. He clung to the grillework with one hairy paw ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 178

Old Christmas

  [english | 1875]  

Washington Irving

Summary: [The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and a Selection of Entrees is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on October 24 1960. It is the only Christie first edition published in the UK that contains stories with both Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple the writers two most famous detectives. It retailed in the UK for twelve ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature | audiobook] Downloads: 160

Old Cookery Books And Ancient Cuisine

  [english | 1902]  

William Carew Hazlitt

Summary: [Old Cookery Books And Ancient Cuisine William Carew Hazlitt by William Carew Hazlitt. excerpt from the book... William of Malmesbury particularly dwells on the broad line of distinction still existing between the southern English and the folk of the more northerly districts in his day twelve hundred years after the visit of Caesar. He says that they were then about A.D. 1150 as different as if ...]
Genres: [cooking | history] Downloads: 350

Old Creole Days

  [english | ]  

F Morlock

Summary: [Old Creole Days by George W Cable. Creole life during the post-Civil War era is brilliantly depicted in this novel by celebrated author George Washington Cable. The stories in this volume illustrate life in New Orleans by using local dialect and colorful descriptions. Cable helped to lead the colorist movement in the 19th century.]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 12

Old Crow

  [english | 1922]  

Alice Brown

Summary: [The Crow is a fantasy novel by Alison Croggon. It is the third book of her Pellinor tetralogy.]
Genres: [fiction and literature | religion] Downloads: 111

Old English Libraries

  [english | ]  

Ernest Savage

Excerpts: [... and these primers, Patrick and his followers, and the train of missionaries who came afterwards,[1] secured the knowledge and use of the Roman ...... was the preservation of manuscripts in cumdachs or rectangular boxes, made just large enough for the books they were intended to enshrine. ...... Book of St. Moling. There are also the cumdachs for Cairnech's Calendar and that of ...]
Genres: [history | language] Downloads: 434

Old English Patent Medicines In America

  [english | 1959]  

George Griffenhagen

Excerpts: [... the Atlantic Ocean and on American soil these eight and other old English patent medicines, as of the year when the 12-page pamphlet was printed, had ...... Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.)]. Competition already had begun when Godfrey's Cordial appeared ...... granted to John Hooper of Reading for the manufacture of Female Pills bearing his ...]
Genres: [science | history] Downloads: 189

Old English Plays Vol I

  [english | 1889]  

Various Authors

Summary: [A Collection Of Old English Plays Vol Iv by Editor A H Bullen. A Collection of Old English Plays vol. 4 is edited by A E Bullen. Besides the plays there is an excellent introduction to the plays. The plays in this collection are Two Tragedies in One. By Robert Yarington The Captives or the Lost Recovered. By Thomas Heywood The Costlie Whore and Everie Woman in her Humor.]
Genres: [drama] Downloads: 179

Old English Poems

  [english | ]  

Cosette Faust Newton

Summary: [Reprint of the 1918 ed. published by Scott Foresman Chicago.]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 413

Old Fires And Profitable Ghosts

  [english | 1900]  

Arthur Thomas Quiller Couch

Excerpts: [... out your hands: you touch- and so it is gone. My dear boy, it isn't for us that you need worry.. For whom, then.. Come, said he, and he shook ...... close to the jamb. The sound resembled breathing-or so he thought for a moment. Then it seemed rather as if some creature were softly feeling about ...... known only to the stablemen, and in the daytime used only by their children, who ...]
Genres: [short story collection | ghost stories] Downloads: 394

Old French Fairy Tales

  [english | ]  

Comtesse De Sgur

Summary: [Frontispiece and plates accompanied by guard sheet descriptive letterpress.]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 163

Old French Romances

  [english | 1896]  

William Morris

Summary: [v. 1. The defence of Guenevere The hollow land -- v. 2. The life and death of Jason -- v. 3. The earthly paradise I -- v. 4. The earthly paradise II -- v. 5. The earthly paradise III -- v. 6. The earthly paradise IV -- v. 7. Grettis saga Volsunga saga -- v. 8. Icelandic journals -- v 9. Love is enough Poems by the way -- v. 10. Three northern love stories The tale of Beowulf -- v. 11 The]
Genres: [romance] Downloads: 54

Old Friends

  [english | ]  

Andrew Lang

Summary: [Friends Lovers Chocolate is the second of the Sunday Philosophy Club series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith set in Edinburgh Scotland and featuring the protagonist Isabel Dalhousie. It was first published in 2005 and is the sequel to The Sunday Philosophy Club.]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 286

Old Friends Epistolary Parody

  [english | 1890]  

Andrew Lang

Excerpts: [... crushed a cup or rattled a dicebox with four gallant gentlemen of the King's Mousquetaires. It is agreeable to wonder what all these very real people ...... serious characters in Shakspeare's plays are not indefinite and shadowy compared with Harry Esmond or Maggie Tulliver. The SERIOUS characters-they ...... dance. But they are too busy with their partners to be friendly. We ...]
Genres: [humor] Downloads: 321

Old Gold

  [english | ]  

George Manville Fenn

Excerpts: [... standing, at the sun-burned gentleman who looked something like a modern yachtsman, though it was a good seventy years ago. The latter looked back ...... answer for them, as I told them I'd answer for you two gents. By the way, I hear the Yankee chap wants to charter a vessel for some such a voyage as you ...... up, and the banks close in till at last they're going up what looks ...]
Genres: [nautical | fiction and literature] Downloads: 202

Old Groans And New Songs

  [english | ]  

F Jennings

Summary: [Brian Jennings is an Irish journalist and newscaster. He has worked on Irish pirate radio and Millennium 88FM. From 1989 onwards he has worked for RT. His good pronunciation of words has been recognised by Gay Byrne.]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 494

Old Hendrik Tales

  [english | 1904]  

Arthur Owen Vaughan

Excerpts: [... ses he to his missis inside, soft an' chucklin', `tell Ainkye to stop dat squallin' an' bawlin'. Ou' Wolf's gone huntin', an' yust as sure as he ...... breakfas',' ses he. `I'd a lost a deal more'n meat if I had a done,' ses he agen, an' den he ups an' he offs back to Ou' Wolf's house. All de way ...... ear a-cockin' out, an' his nose a-cockin' up. An' den his tail begun to wilt a ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature | short story collection] Downloads: 186