Books published in 1874
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A Alma Nova
[english | 1874]Guilherme Dazevedo
Excerpts: [... j tocar-te as roagantes vestes. deusa virginal das coleras celestes,. Das graas juvenis. Retine a canoa alegre das bachantes,. Saudadas ...... leve e onde os meus labios puz,. -Saudando a boa me que faz com que eu te gose. Depois do verme vil teu seio polluir,. Mais pura no frescor ...... das vizes que amaste com fervor. Ahi as tens agora alimentando as ervas. De novo dando terra o ...]
Genres: [poetry] Downloads: 308
An Account Of The Proceedings On The Trial Of Susan B
[english | 1874]Anonymous
Excerpts: [... SUSAN B. ANTHONY. DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,. IN AND FOR THE. NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. * * *. At a stated ...... that judgment, her offering her vote and its being received makes a criminal offence-a proposition to me most abhorrent, as I believe it will be equally ...... of Georgia (2 Dallas, 419-471), although the learned Chief Justice had of course no ...]
Genres: [women studies | history] Downloads: 134
Baddeck And That Sort Of Thing
[english | 1874]Charles Dudley Warner
Excerpts: [... crash. Was it an earthquake, or another fire. Were the neighboring buildings all tumbling in upon us, or had a bomb fallen into the neighboring ...... I heard one of these Irish gentlemen, whose satin vest was insufficient to repress the mountainous protuberance of his shirt-bosom, enlightening ...... that I cannot convey in words. And though I am compelled, by way of illustration, ...]
Genres: [travel] Downloads: 344
Being A Boy
[english | 1874]Charles Dudley Warner
Summary: [Charles Dudley Warner (September 12 1829 - October 20 1900) was an American essayist and novelist.]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 124
Brave And Bold
[english | 1874]Horatio Alger Jr
Excerpts: [... the lawyer's daughter, the reigning belle among the girls of her age in Millville. The fact was, that Halbert was rather smitten with Hester, and had ...... agreeable.. Keep your advice to yourself, Halbert Davis, said Robert, hotly, for he felt the insult conveyed in these words. If I am a factory boy ...... am I doing it. I am only saying he is not a beggar.. He is far below ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 274
Camilla A Tale Of A Violin
[english | 1874]Charles Inman Barnard
Summary: [Camilla deals with the matrimonial concerns of a group of young people-Camilla Tyrold and her sisters the daughters of a country parson and their cousin Indiana Lynmere-and in particular with the love affair between Camilla herself and her eligible suitor Edgar Mandlebert.]
Genres: [biography | music] Downloads: 260
Carlota Angela
[english | 1874]Camilo Castelo Branco
Summary: [Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo-Branco1st Viscount de Correia Botelho (March 16 1825 - June 1 1890) was a prolific Portuguese writer of the 19th century having authored over 260 books. His writing is overall considered original in that it combines the dramatic and sentimental spirit of Romanticism with a highly personal combination of sarcasm bitterness and dark humour. He is also celebrated for ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 414
Cast Upon The Breakers
[english | 1874]Horatio Alger Jr
Summary: [Left penniless after his inheritance is lost by his guardian sixteen-year-old Rodney Ropes leaves boarding school and tries to find a way to make a living continue his education and maintain his integrity in 1890s New York.]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 96
Celebrated Claimants From Perkin Warbeck To Arthur Orton
[english | 1874]Anonymous
Excerpts: [... with the Earl of Warwick, who was confined in the same prison. The unfortunate prince listened readily to his fatal proposals, and a new plan was laid. ...... swooped down upon the town and took the alcalde and his soldiers prisoners. He next wrote to the cardinal regent, ordering him to quit the palace and ...... to Rome, where he was received with open arms by Alexander VII. On ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 331
Charley Laurel
[english | 1874]W G Kingston
Summary: [Charley Laurel by W H G Kingston. A good many years ago before indeed I can remember His Majesty s Ship Laurel a corvette of eighteen guns and a hundred and thirty men commanded by Captain Blunt formed one of the West India squadron. She with another corvette and a brig in c]
Genres: [nautical | adventure] Downloads: 242
Desperate Remedies
[english | 1874]Thomas Hardy
Summary: [Described by Hardy as a tale of mystery entanglement surprise and moral obliquity his first published novel violated the literary decorum of its day with blackmail murder and romance. It relates the story of Cytherea a maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe and the man she loves Edward Springrove. Upon discovering that Edward is already engaged Cytherea comes under the influence of ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective | thrillers] Downloads: 475
Eno Ja Sisarenpoika
[english | 1874]Franz Hoffmann
Excerpts: [... viljavat tiluksensa olivat tuottaneet, ja katseli suurella mielihyvll niit kevyit sinisi savupilvi, jotka tyttivt ilman oivallisella lemullansa. Kepen ...... Zenoksi, ja siit he karkasivat toistensa kimppuun niinkuin pukit, ja Zeno, jos ei juuri musertanutkaan Endymionin kalloa, antoi hnelle kuitenkin semmoisen ...... herra Vanderstraten. Siell he elvt raakalaisten tavalla metsn ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 224
Envers Et Contre Tous
[french | 1874]Amedee Achard
Summary: [La suite des Coups dpe de M. de La Guerche]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | historical] Downloads: 53
Essays On Political Economy
[english | 1874]Frederic Bastiat
Excerpts: [... It depends exclusively upon the giver, and the receiver cannot be said to have any right to it. Without a doubt, morality and religion make it ...... I yield to you what I have done, yield to me what you have done. The labour is past, instead of present but the exchange is not the less governed ...... a Pascal, a Fenelon mankind would have been ignorant of all arts, sciences, and ...]
Genres: [essays | politics | audiobook] Downloads: 319
Eugene Pickering
[english | 1874]Henry James
Summary: [Eugene Pickering by Henry James. 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 General ]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 10
Eulogy On Chief Justice Chase
[english | 1874]William Evarts
Excerpts: [... solemn rites of sepulture, the sobbings of sorrowing affection, the homage of public grief, the concourse of the great officers of state, the assemblage ...... force of his education with the work he did, with the influence he wielded in life, with the power of the example which lives after him, and always ...... and State. An unpropitious turn of the commercial affairs of the ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 258
Far From The Madding Crowd
[english | 1874]Thomas Hardy
Summary: [Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardys novels to apply the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist. When the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene inherits her own farm she attracts three very different suitors the seemingly commonplace man-of-the-soil Gabriel Oak the dashing young soldier Francis Troy and ...]
Genres: [fiction | romance] Downloads: 262
Fromont And Risler
[english | 1874]Alphonse Daudet
Excerpts: [... Fromont, celle qu'il appelait , la femme de son associ'e, la fille de d'efunt Fromont, son ancien patron et son dieu. Il l'avait ...... de sa pr'esence, le grand homme avait une certaine facon de se pencher vers lui pour l''ecouter, de sourire `a ses paroles comme `a celles d'un enfant ...... champs lui faisaient l'effet de fleurs de pauvres, quelque chose dans le ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature | romance] Downloads: 390
Fromont And Risler Vol 1
[english | 1874]Alphonse Daudet
Excerpts: [... Bohemian, with poetry for consolation and newspaper work for bread. He had secured a secretaryship with the Duc de Morny, President of the Corps ...... against life, of little feathers fluttering for an opportunity to fly away. But husbands do not see such things as those. Next to Sidonie and Frantz, ...... Risler. And it came about so strangely. For a long time I noticed that she ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 154
Fromont And Risler Vol 2
[english | 1874]Alphonse Daudet
Excerpts: [... and thanked her friend, but wrote down an additional grievance against her in the bottom of her heart. In Claire's circle her welcome was decidedly ...... demanding patience and self-abnegation, of the long rockings when sleep would not come, of the laughing awakenings sparkling with fresh water. No. ...... landowner of the vicinity. This he missed more than anything else, consumed ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 468