Books published in 1900
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Souvenirs Entomologiques Livre Vi
[french | 1900]Jean Henri Fabre
Summary: [Ce sixime volume comme les prcdents est une tude scientifique du plus haut intrt sur divers insectes agrmente de passages sur les ides et lhistoire de lauteur fort intressants en particulier celui sur sa jeunesse et son ducation campagnarde auprs dun instituteur fleurant bon le foin. La dmarche de lauteur y est comme chaque fois explicite avec une clart remarquable. On suit parfaitement son ...]
Genres: [non-fiction | science] Downloads: 341
Souvenirs Entomologiques Livre Vii
[french | 1900]Jean Henri Fabre
Excerpts: [... pas moins donn'e. Des doutes me viennent, plus pressants, si je consid`ere `a quelles graves confidences conduirait l'astuce de l'insecte. Il fait ...... faisait le mort sous les naseaux de la b^ete ne s'avisa pas de s''etirer longtemps, de se frotter les yeux. `A l'instant debout, il prit la fuite. Et ...... Ou n'y voit plus le petit fantassin brun des l'egions romaines on y voit ...]
Genres: [non-fiction | science] Downloads: 136
Tales Of Space And Time
[english | 1900]H Wells
Summary: [A collection of short stories: The Crystal Egg The Star A Story of the Stone Age A Story of the Days to ComeThe Man who could Work Miracles]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 405
That Mainwaring Affair
[english | 1900]Anna Maynard Barbour
Summary: [That Mainwaring Affair by Anna Maynard Barbour. This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 358
The Adventures Of A Boy Reporter
[english | 1900]Harry Steele Morrison
Summary: [The Adventures Of A Boy Reporter by Harry Steele Morrison. YES said Mrs. Dunn to her neighbour Mrs. Sullivan we are expecting great things of Archie and yet we sometimes hardly know what to think of the boy. He has the most remarkable ideas of things and there seems to be absolutely no limit to his ambition. He has long since determined that he will some day be President and he expects to enter ...]
Genres: [young readers | fiction and literature] Downloads: 390
The Assessment of the Present Situation
[english | 1900]Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Summary: [The Bolshevik or Maximalist wing of the Social-Democratic Party was able to control the Soviet and the Committees in the early days of the Revolution its hold upon them has tightened and it is now stronger than ever. Yct it represents neither the best nor even the most numerous section of the people. Like the Okhrana or secret police system under the old rSgime its influence is based.upon the ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 344
The Associate Hermits
[english | 1900]Frank Stockton
Summary: [Frank Richard Stockton (April 5 1834 ? April 20 1902) was an American writer and humorist best known today for a series of innovative childrens fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. Stockton avoided the didactic moralizing common to childrens stories of the time instead using clever humor to poke at greed violence abuse of power and other human foibles ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 453
The Banker And The Bear
[english | 1900]Henry Kitchell Webster
Excerpts: [... so I have to make the most of her.. The next hours were the happiest John had ever known. It was all so new to him,-thiseasy, irresponsible way of ...... glad, too, she answered, and kissed him. John and Alice were married, as they had planned, in April but the wedding trip was cut short by a telegram ...... her about his gloomy boyhood, his disappointment in his father's bank, and ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature | business | romance] Downloads: 255
The Belovd Vagabond
[english | 1900]William Locke
Excerpts: [... mother's wash-tub and your dreams of a fried-fish shop and enter my service. I, the heir of all the ages, am driven by Destiny to running The Lotus ...... Fame will attend my genius, homage your Beauty we shall walk on roses and dwell in the Palaces of the Earth. My heart thrilled when I read these lines. ...... and I will not submit him to such an indignity.. He put his hand on my ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 31
The Book Of Saints And Friendly Beasts
[english | 1900]Abbie Farwell Brown
Excerpts: [... that she could do something to help him, to save him if possible. But this seemed difficult, for she knew what a bad temper the King had and she also ...... was a little surprised. Dear me, he said aloud, how very strange that sounded. What do you suppose it was. Now there was no one else anywhere near, ...... had tried fresh donkey-meat for a change. Oh, you wicked lion. he cried, ...]
Genres: [short story collection | young readers] Downloads: 184
The Bradys And The Girl Smuggler
[english | 1900]Francis Doughty
Summary: [The Bradys And The Girl Smuggler Or Working For The Custom House by Francis W Doughty. The Collector of the Port of New York sat in his office in the Custom House with a look of annoyance upon his face Excerpt ]
Genres: [adventure | pulp | fiction and literature] Downloads: 492
The Bradys Beyond Their Depth
[english | 1900]Anonymous
Excerpts: [... falls far short of doing it justice, exactly represents the watch three-fourths size. HOW TO GET ONE OF THESE WATCHES. A coupon will appear on this ...... you see an undertaker's wagon just go by here.. Oi did, sor, tin minutes ago, promptly replied the driver. In which direction did it go.. Turned ...... banks of dark clouds were flying across the lowering sky. Occasionally the ...]
Genres: [mysterydetective | pulp | adventure] Downloads: 121
The Brass Bottle
[english | 1900]Thomas Anstey Guthrie
Summary: [A djinn sealed in a jar for three thousand years has been found by Horace Ventimore a young and not very flourishing architect. Upon his release the djinn expresses his gratitude by seeking to grant his benefactors every wish--generally with results the very opposite to those desired!]
Genres: [fiction | fantasy | humorous] Downloads: 275
The Campaign Of The Jungle
[english | 1900]Edward Stratemeyer
Excerpts: [... outbreak of the war with Spain, and how gallantly the young tar served his country has already been told in detail in Under Dewey at Manila.. Ben ...... for this sort of thing, my lad, he went on. I hope not, sir, cried Larry, quickly. I've seen fighting before.. He was in the thickest of ...... soldiers at such close quarters. We're in a box, muttered Luke. Somethin' wrong ...]
Genres: [adventure | war] Downloads: 274
The Circular Study
[english | 1900]Anna Katharine Green
Summary: [I agree this detective story has an unusal start and the end is very emotional. Not excellent but a good mixture: typical of the mysteries of that time it needs improbable or extreme conditions to work out extreme stupidities of youth in this case (suicide and not to know the difference between murder and justifyable homicide).]
Genres: [mysterydetective] Downloads: 387
The Court Of The Empress Josephine
[english | 1900]Imbert De Saint Amand
Summary: [The Court Of The Empress Josephine by Imbert De Saint Amand. Excerpt from the book... Two-thirds of my life is passed why should I so distress myself about what remains The most brilliant fortune does not deserve all the trouble I take the pettiness I detect in myself or the humiliations and shame I endure thirty years will destroy those giants of power which can be seen only by raising the head ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 55
The Dealings Of Captain Sharkey
[english | 1900]Arthur Conan Doyle
Excerpts: [... voyage. Dr. Larousse said that he would have sunk had the hanging of Sharkey not put fresh life into him. He has a great spirit in him, though, and you ...... at his ropes, until at last, with flayed wrists and ankles, he rolled from the table, sprang over the dead mate, kicked his way through the closed ...... must have reached Jamaica. But what could she be doing there. And then ...]
Genres: [short story collection | pirate tales | nautical] Downloads: 25
The Draft Resolution Proposed by the Left Wing at Zimmerwald
[english | 1900]Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Summary: [In the April Theses therefore Lenin called for a struggle for a socialist program based on the independent action of the working class. Its main elements were: No Support for the Provisional government. Fight for the Soviets to take power. End the war. Confiscate the big estates. Nationalize the banks. Establish workers control of industry. Replace the police and army with a workers ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 274
The Eagle Heart
[english | 1900]Hamlin Garland
Excerpts: [... her rle she humored his fancies, permitting him to aid her in finding her way across a weedy pasture lot or over a tiny little brook which he was pleased ...... of his right hand he tore the hands of the sheriff from the boy's arms the gesture was bearlike in power. What's the meaning of all this, Mr. Sawyer. ...... made the main and vital points entirely clear I intend merely to ...]
Genres: [western | fiction and literature] Downloads: 129
The Essence of The Agrarian Problem in Russia
[english | 1900]Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Summary: [So the Bolsheviks slogans demanded of these parties leaders that they do the job their supporters expected them to do. Their key demands were that the socialists break with the Kadets and take political power into their own hands. The compromisers could easily have done this by declaring the executive of the Soviet the government of the country. The Bolshevik slogans Down with the ten capitalist ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 396