Books published in 1893
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A Little Swiss Sojourn
[english | 1893]William Dean Howells
Excerpts: [... EBook of A Little Swiss Sojourn, by W. D. Title: A Little Swiss Sojourn. Author: W. D. Howells. Release Date: June 12, 2006 [EBook #18565]. pgdp. A ...... would be done. When the train put us down at Villeneuve, among railway people as indifferent as our own at country stations, and much crosser and more ...... English perfectly. As I wish to give a complete notion of our household,...]
Genres: [travel | audiobook] Downloads: 26
A Pirate Of The Caribbees
[english | 1893]Harry Collingwood
Excerpts: [... peered into it, endeavouring to pierce the veil of fog that formed its farther extremity, I suddenly became aware of a vague shape indistinctly perceptible ...... before sunset, orders were given to throw the main-deck guns overboard, it became borne in upon me that matters were becoming mighty serious with us. With ...... giving her a parting cheer as she vanished. The captain ...]
Genres: [pirate tales | nautical | adventure] Downloads: 219
A Sailor Lass
[english | 1893]Emma Leslie
Excerpts: [... and occasionally see a rocket piercing the midnight blackness of the sky, appealing for help for the drowning men. At the coastguard station, ...... to disturb the child. Well, I want a tub of hot water, snapped Mrs. Peters. You'll find the tub in the backyard, and the kettle's near on the boil. ...... sharp voice was heard calling for the blanket long before he had groped his way ...]
Genres: [young readers | nautical | adventure] Downloads: 455
About Orchids
[english | 1893]Frederick Boyle
Summary: [Fertilisation of Orchids is a book by Charles Darwin published on 15 May 1862 under the full explanatory title On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects and on the good effects of intercrossing. Darwins previous book On the Origin of Species had briefly mentioned evolutionary interactions between insects and the plants they fertilised and this new ...]
Genres: [essays | nature] Downloads: 71
Adventures And Recollections
[english | 1893]William Wright
Summary: [Adventures And Recollections by Bill O Th Hoylus End. 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 Texas United States Mexican War 1846-1848 Biography]
Genres: [humor] Downloads: 192
Ambrosius
[danish | 1893]Chris F Molbech
Summary: [Ambrosius Danish Edition by Chris K F Molbech. Ambrosius is presented here in a high quality kindle edition. This popular classic work by Chris K.F. Molbech is in the Danish language. If you enjoy the works of Chris K.F. Molbech then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.]
Genres: [drama] Downloads: 318
Beyond The City
[english | 1893]Arthur Conan Doyle
Summary: [Another Bullshit Night in Suck City is a 2004 memoir by playwright and poet Nick Flynn describing Flynns reunion with his estranged father Jonathan -- an alcoholic resident of the homeless shelter where Nick was a social worker in the late 1980s. The title refers to Jonathans description of homeless life in Boston. The memoir earned Flynn a 2004 award from PEN International was shortlisted for ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature | audiobook | romance] Downloads: 348
Book Of Wise Sayings
[english | 1893]W Clouston
Summary: [good imaginations true wise sayings. keepup]
Genres: [philosophy | reference | non fiction] Downloads: 4
Bride Roses
[english | 1893]William Dean Howells
Summary: [William Dean Howells (March 1 1837 ? May 11 1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He was known for the Christmas story Christmas Every Day and the novel The Rise of Silas Lapham.]
Genres: [drama] Downloads: 210
Catherine Furze
[english | 1893]William Hale White
Excerpts: [... all had again assembled, the additions to the party being Mrs. Furze and her daughter Catharine, a young woman of nieen. Mrs. Furze was not an Eastthorpe ...... therefore, his wife's proposals made him uneasy, and even alarmed him. He shrank from them unconsciously, and yet his aversion was perfectly wise ...... quartering you on a stranger for so long.. Mrs. Bellamy will not ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 103
Chateaubriand Et Madame De Custine
[french | 1893]Francois Ren De Chateaubriand
Summary: [Franois-Ren vicomte de Chateaubriand (4 September 1768 - 4 July 1848) was a French writer politician and diplomat. He is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature.]
Genres: [correspondence | non fiction] Downloads: 416
Chess History And Reminiscences
[english | 1893]Henry Edward Bird
Excerpts: [... been considered as quite satisfactorily proved and established by authorities deemed trustworthy, both native and foreign, and are quite consistent ...... solutions. We must suppose this to be due to an oversight, as he gives the key moves of the four problems by English composers. The omission is deplorable, ...... popularising of chess amongst the industrial classes. CHESS NOTES ...]
Genres: [history | games | biography] Downloads: 219
Condemned As A Nihilist
[english | 1893]G Henty
Summary: [There are few difficulties that cannot be surmounted by patience resolution and pluck and great as are the obstacles that nature and the Russian government oppose to an escape from the prisons of Siberia such evasions have occasionally been successfully carried out and that under far less advantageous circumstances than those under which the hero of this story undertook the venture.]
Genres: [fiction | historical | juvenile] Downloads: 414
Custom And Myth
[english | 1893]Andrew Lang
Excerpts: [... myth. The modern interpreter forgets, first, that to the myth-maker sky did not at all mean the same thing as it means to him. Sky meant, not an airy, ...... odd rites of the mysteries, were common to Hellenic religion, and to the religion of African, Australian, and American tribes. Now, with regard ...... than the men of the tribe. One woman believed she had heard Pundjel, the ...]
Genres: [myth | essays | criticism] Downloads: 415
De Kleine Johannes
[dutch | 1893]Frederik Van Eeden
Summary: [De Kleine Johannes by Frederik Van Eeden. Dutch language version of De kleine Johannes by Frederik Willem van Eeden dutch socialist..]
Genres: [fiction and literature | fantasy] Downloads: 363
Die Italienische Plastik
[german | 1893]Wilhelm Bode
Summary: [Die Italienische Plastik Handbucher Der Staatslichen Museen Zu Berlin by Wilhelm Bode. In German 207 pages 103 illustrations. Deals almost entirely with sculpture of the renaissance.]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 281
Drolls From Shadowland
[english | 1893]J Pearce
Summary: [Drolls from shadowland -- Tales of the masque.]
Genres: [short story collection] Downloads: 229
Duffels
[english | 1893]Edward Eggleston
Summary: [Sister Tabea.--The redemptioner.--A basement story.--The gunpowder plot.--The story of a valentine.--Huldah the help.--The new cashier.--Priscilla.--Talking for life.--Periwinkle.--The Christmas club.]
Genres: [fiction and literature | short story collection] Downloads: 374
El Diablo De La Botella
[spanish | 1893]Robert Louis Stevenson
Summary: [Keawe el protagonista es oriundo de Hawai. Un da siente la necesidad de conocer otras tierras as que se dirige a San Francisco. All ve una casa preciosa pero el dueo es un viejo que parece triste. Keawe se pregunta cmo el dueo de una casa tan hermosa puede ser tan infeliz. Entonces el viejo le muestra una botella de vidrio blanco pero que en su interior se podan ver los colores cambiantes del ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 257