Books published in 1864
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A Hidden Life And Other Poems
[english | 1864]George Macdonald
Summary: [George MacDonald (10 December 1824 ? 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author poet and Christian minister. Known particularly for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels George MacDonald inspired many authors such as W. H. Auden J. R. R. Tolkien C. S. Lewis E. Nesbit and Madeleine LEngle. It was C.S. Lewis who wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his master: Picking up a copy of Phantastes one ...]
Genres: [poetry] Downloads: 421
A Ride Across Palestine
[english | 1864]Anthony Trollope
Excerpts: [... to ride through that country without paying the regular price for protection, than you have to stop in Z- 's hotel without settling the bill.. I ...... were more in his favour, or whose face and gait and outward bearing seemed to betoken better breeding. He might be some twenty or twenty-one years ...... first on horseback. Joseph, the Frenchman, was strapping on to a rough pony ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 435
Aaron Trow
[english | 1864]Anthony Trollope
Summary: [Lady Dugdale.--Aaron Trow.--The OConors of Castle Conor.--Relics of General Chasse?.--The chateau of Prince Polignac.--George Walker at Suez.]
Genres: [thriller | short story] Downloads: 480
Adela Cathcart Vol 1
[english | 1864]George Macdonald
Summary: [Adela Cathcart Vol 1 by George Macdonald. ADELA CATHCART Volume I. BY GEORGE MACDONALD M.A. Me list not of the chaf ne of the stre Maken so long a tale as of the corn. CHAUCER.--_Man of Lawes Tale_. ADELA CATHCART Originally published in 1864 With appreciation to Mrs. Morag Black for the master copies of Volumes II and III to the Bodleian Library for the photo-copies of Volume I and to Miss Tracy ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 137
Adela Cathcart Vol 2
[english | 1864]George Macdonald
Summary: [Adela Cathcart Vol 1 by George Macdonald. ADELA CATHCART Volume I. BY GEORGE MACDONALD M.A. Me list not of the chaf ne of the stre Maken so long a tale as of the corn. CHAUCER.--_Man of Lawes Tale_. ADELA CATHCART Originally published in 1864 With appreciation to Mrs. Morag Black for the master copies of Volumes II and III to the Bodleian Library for the photo-copies of Volume I and to Miss Tracy ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 87
Adela Cathcart Vol 3
[english | 1864]George Macdonald
Summary: [Adela Cathcart Vol 1 by George Macdonald. ADELA CATHCART Volume I. BY GEORGE MACDONALD M.A. Me list not of the chaf ne of the stre Maken so long a tale as of the corn. CHAUCER.--_Man of Lawes Tale_. ADELA CATHCART Originally published in 1864 With appreciation to Mrs. Morag Black for the master copies of Volumes II and III to the Bodleian Library for the photo-copies of Volume I and to Miss Tracy ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 285
An Unprotected Female At The Pyramids
[english | 1864]Anthony Trollope
Summary: [An amusing short story by Anthony Trollope about a woman traveling alone in Egypt. Although she has no male companion to protect her its really the males of the families she latches onto in her travels that are the ones who need protecting.]
Genres: [fiction and literature | short story] Downloads: 115
Apologia Pro Vita Sua
[english | 1864]John Henry Newman
Summary: [Apologia Pro Vita Sua is the classic defence of the religious opinions of John Henry Newman published in 1864 in response to what he saw as an unwarranted attack on himself the Catholic priesthood and Roman Catholic doctrine by Charles Kingsley. The work quickly became a bestseller and has remained in print to this day. The work was tremendously influential in turning public opinion for Newman ...]
Genres: [non-fiction | biography autobiography | religion] Downloads: 72
Arthur
[english | 1864]Frederick Furnivall
Summary: [The Best of Arthur C. Clarke: 1937-1971 is a collection of science fiction short stories by Arthur C. Clarke originally published in 1973. The stories written between 1937 and 1971 originally appeared in a number of periodicals including Amateur Science Stories Zenith The Fantast Fantasy Startling Stories Astounding Science Fiction Quarterly Ten Story Fantasy Infinity Science Fiction The Magazine ...]
Genres: [poetry] Downloads: 57
Assez Extrait Du Journal Dun Peintre Defunt
[french | 1864]Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Excerpts: [... Assez, assez remu'e, assez err'e : il est temps de rentrer en soi-m^eme, de se prendre la t^ete `a deux mains, et d'ordonner `a son coeur de ne plus ...... une loi, eh bien, le d'epit me gagne. Mais oui, le d'epit! Assez ! Extrait du journal d'un peintre d'efunt Chapitre 7 Cela se passait ...... autour de moi, comme pour chercher un mobile ext'erieur `a mon exaltation... Tout ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 424
Can You Forgive Her
[english | 1864]Anthony Trollope
Summary: [Can You Forgive Her by Anthony Trollope. Can You Forgive Her is a novel by Anthony Trollope first published in serial form in 1864 and 1865. It is the first of six novels in the Palliser series. The novel follows three parallel stories of courtship and marriage and the decisions of three strong women Alice Vavasor her cousin Glencora Palliser and her aunt Arabella Greenow. Early on Alice asks the ...]
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Chateau Of Prince Polignac
[english | 1864]Anthony Trollope
Excerpts: [... on the rock side large enough to form a resting- place for the church, which has therefore been built out on huge supporting piles, which form a ...... might desire. And now I would ask my readers to join me at the morning table d'hote at the Hotel des Ambassadeurs. It will of course be understood ...... at the Hotel des Ambassadeurs in that town. Lilian Thompson was occasionally ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature | short story] Downloads: 452
Cornelius Odowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In
[english | 1864]Charles James Lever
Excerpts: [... to do this, that, or t'other, you'd make a hit but it was always conditional on my being somewhere, or doing something that I never had attempted before. It ...... indeed, he quickly saw the effect it had produced upon me, as he said, Not that I care a straw for the fellows I associate with my theory is, a gentleman ...... with a railroad wrapper over her shoulders. It's no use ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 92
Diary From November 12 1862 To October 18 1863
[english | 1864]Adam De Gurowski
Excerpts: [... is required to make a capable captain, more especially in such times as those in which we are living. It is said that his staff is well organized God ...... by nature for a scheming and adroit politician.****. Dec. 10.-The Congress feels the ground, hesitates, and apparently lacks the necessary energy ...... From this sweeping and terribly true charge, however, we must except the ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 372
Duas Paginas Dos Quatorze Annos
[english | 1864]Guerra Junqueiro
Summary: [Abilio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro (September 17 1850-July 7 1923) was a Portuguese bachelor in law at the University of Coimbra a top civil servant member of the Portuguese House of Representatives journalist author and poet. His work help inspire the creation of the Portuguese First Republic. Junqueiro wrote highly satiric poems criticizing conservatism romanticism and the Church leading up to the ...]
Genres: [poetry] Downloads: 70
Faustus
[english | 1864]Friedrich Maximilian Von Klinger
Summary: [General introduction.--Christopher Marlowe by H. Ellis.--Tamburlaine the Great.--The tragical history of Dr. Faustus.--The Jew of Malta.--Edward the Second.--Appendix.]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 406
Frank Campaign
[english | 1864]Horatio Alger Jr
Summary: [Frank S Campaign by Horatio Alger Jr. Superior Printing Co. kindle c1900.]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 116
French Life
[english | 1864]Elizabeth Gaskell
Summary: [French Life by Elizabeth Gaskell. Excerpt Paris February 1862. We went to-day along the Boulevard S evastopol Rive Gauche to pay a call. I knew the district well about six years ago when it was a network of narrow tortuous streets the houses high irregular picturesque historical dirty and unhealthy. I used to have much difficulty in winding my way to certain points in the Quartier Latin from the ...]
Genres: [travel | biography | essays] Downloads: 100
George Walker At Suez
[english | 1864]Anthony Trollope
Excerpts: [... with that surgeon from St. Bartholomew's who dined with them twice at the Albion nor would they have gone to work directly that my back was turned, ...... his wife but it was in vain, and I found myself sitting down to breakfast and dinner, day after day, as much alone as I should do if I called for a chop ...... and at last the dragoman got off. Dere, said he, picking up a small ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature | short story] Downloads: 288
Henri Iv 2e Partie
[french | 1864]William Shakespeare
Summary: [Sir Thomas More (February 7 1478 - July 6 1535) also Saint Thomas More was an English lawyer social philosopher author statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important counsellor to Henry VIII of England and for three years toward the end of his life he was Lord Chancellor. He is also recognized as a saint within the Catholic Church and in the Anglican Communion. He was an opponent ...]
Genres: [drama] Downloads: 168