Books published in 1879
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A Bundle Of Letters
[english | 1879]Henry James
Summary: [Edel]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 365
A Doll House
[english | 1879]Henrik Ibsen
Summary: [Directed by Steve Albrezzi executive producer Susan Albert Loewenberg.]
Genres: [drama | audiobook] Downloads: 111
A Refutation Of The Charges Made Against The Confederate
[english | 1879]Horace Edwin Hayden
Summary: [A Refutation Of The Charges Made Against The Confederate States Of America Hayden Horace Edwin by Horace Edwin Hayden. excerpt from the book... EXPLOSIVE AND POISONED MUSKET AND RIFLE BALLS. The following remarkable statement occurs as a note to the account of the battle of Gettysburg on page 78 volume III of The Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of America by Benson J. ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 191
A Rogue Life
[english | 1879]Wilkie Collins
Summary: [A young man of respectable family finds it difficult to settle down to the dull life his relatives expect of him and they cast him off. Then he falls in love at first sight with a mysterious young woman and gets into further trouble. Pleasant but unexciting reading.]
Genres: [humor | mysterydetective | romance] Downloads: 64
An Eye For An Eye
[english | 1879]Anthony Trollope
Excerpts: [... the appendages to it such as were fit for an Earl's establishment-but there was little about it that was attractive. The land lay flat, and the timber, ...... and was well acquainted with all County Clare. She was almost sure to hear of the doings of any officers stationed at Ennis, and would do so certainly ...... a good girl, and would have consented to marry no man without ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 428
Begumbagh
[english | 1879]George Manville Fenn
Summary: [Begumbagh by George Manville Fenn. I ve waited all these years expecting some one or another would give a full and true account of it all but little thinking it would ever come to be my task. For it s not in my way but seeing how much has been said about other parts and other people s sufferings while ours never so much as came in for a line of newspaper I can t think it s fair and as fairness is ...]
Genres: [adventure | nautical | young readers] Downloads: 416
Buying A Horse
[english | 1879]William Dean Howells
Summary: [Vignettes and decorations throughout.]
Genres: [short story | fiction and literature] Downloads: 38
Confidence
[english | 1879]Henry James
Summary: [Confidence by James Foley. When professional grifter Jake Vig Edward Burns chooses the wrong mark in The King Dustin Hoffman he is given two choices pull off a near impossible heist or lose his life. Needing all the help he can get Jake brings in beautiful con artist Lily Rachel We isz and a mixed group of professionals. Nonetheless with The King riding him and a pesky Special Agent Andy Garcia ...]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 73
Cousin Henry
[english | 1879]Anthony Trollope
Excerpts: [... disinclination-how impossible to be conquered, then- What next? Then you would know that I could never give way, as you call it, and you would go ...... his girl, but against the man who by the mere force of his birth was creating such a sea of troubles. I have told you what my intentions are, the Squire ...... not allow a thought of mine to be polluted by ingratitude towards him. ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 12
Daisy Miller
[english | 1879]Henry James
Summary: [Daisy Miller A Study In Two Parts by Henry James. Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James. It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Winterbourne a more sophisticated compatriot of hers. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness which is frowned upon by the other expatriates they meet in Switzerland and Italy.]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 374
Duel Au Balai
[french | 1879]Ch Wilhelm
Excerpts: [... un de ses amis un acte de religion. Pour lui la pit tait incompatible avec le courage, et quiconque s'agenouillait dans une glise tait incapable d'une ...... l'opinion publique il et affront sans plir une batterie arme de ses redoutables canons, et il n'avait pas eu le courage de franchir, en plein jour ...... cur du village. Tantt c'tait un refus de payer la chambre (la commune ...]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 60
Facts About Champagne And Other Sparkling Wines
[english | 1879]Henry Vizetelly
Excerpts: [... the Plant vert dor, the Plant gris, and the Epite- The Soil of the Vineyards- Close Mode of Plantation- The Operation of Provinage- The Stems of ...... them were of a fauve or yellowish hue, and of the intermediate tint between red and white which the French call clairet, and which our old writers translate ...... impracticable for carts, the grapes were being conveyed to the ...]
Genres: [instructional] Downloads: 22
Fasting Girls
[english | 1879]William Alexander Hammond
Summary: [Fasting Girls William Alexander Hammond by William Alexander Hammond. excerpt from the book.. ABSTINENCE IN THE MIDDLE AGES. Among the many remarkable manifestations by which hysteria exhibits itself for the astonishment of the credulous and uneducated portion of the public and--alas that it should have to be said --for the delectation of an occasional weak-minded and ignorant physician the ...]
Genres: [non fiction] Downloads: 75
Freedom In Science And Teaching
[english | 1879]Ernst Haeckel
Summary: [Call number of original: B818.H2.]
Genres: [science] Downloads: 411
Great Singers First Series
[english | 1879]George Ferris
Summary: [Great Singers First Series by George T Ferris. 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 Singers Biography]
Genres: [music] Downloads: 290
Hawthorne
[english | 1879]Henry James
Summary: [Hawthorne by Henry James. Many of the earliest books particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable high quality modern editions using the original text and artwork.]
Genres: [non-fiction | biography autobiography] Downloads: 375
Histoire De Deux Enfants Douvrier
[french | 1879]Hendrik Conscience
Summary: [Henri Hendrik Conscience (December 3 1812 Antwerp - September 10 1883 Elsene) was a Belgian writer. He was a pioneer in writing in Dutch after the secession from the Netherlands in 1830 left Belgium a mostly French speaking country. He was the son of a Frenchman Pierre Conscience from Besanon who had been chef de timonerie in the navy of Napoleon Bonaparte and who was appointed ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 145
History Of The Mackenzies
[english | 1879]Alexander Mackenzie
Excerpts: [... is absolutely impossible and these facts alone, though no other shred of evidence was forthcoming, would dispose of the Colin Fitzgerald origin of ...... their lands, first from the O'Beolan Earls and subsequently from the Island Lords as Earls of Ross for the first direct Crown charter to any chief of ...... of the Applecross MS. says that this Baron was called Murchadh no Droit ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 135
Hope Mills
[english | 1879]Amanda Minnie Douglas
Excerpts: [... with his sisters' governess, when he rebelled, and insisted upon his boy's prerogative of going to school. Here he met and loved Jack Darcy. Jack ...... all the rest of her life but there came a very persistent wooer, and madame succumbed a second time to the destiny of women. Sylvie Barry was ...... destiny, she had not lost faith in it though she had held out her hand to the ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 63
Impressions Of Theophrastus Such
[english | 1879]George Eliot
Summary: [George Fielding Eliot (June 22 1894 ? April 21 1971) was a Second Lieutenant in the Australian army in World War I. He became a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and later a Major in the Military Intelligence Reserve of the United States Army. He was the author of 15 books on military and political matters in the 1930s through the 1960s wrote a syndicated column on military affairs and ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 1