Books published in 1916
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A Bird Calendar For Northern India
[english | 1916]Douglas Dewar
Excerpts: [... or absence of the voices of these latter which imparts distinctive features to the minstrelsy of every month of the year. In January the sprightly ...... The shape of the tail, however, enables the observer to distinguish between the two species at a glance. The tail of the kite is long and forked, while ...... and March are the months in which to look for the eggs of the wood-owl. ...]
Genres: [nature] Downloads: 292
A Book Of Burlesques
[english | 1916]H Mencken
Summary: [Henry Louis H. L. Mencken (September 12 1880 - January 29 1956) was an American journalist essayist magazine editor satirist acerbic critic of American life and culture and a student of American English. Mencken known as the Sage of Baltimore is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Mencken is known for writing The ...]
Genres: [humor] Downloads: 131
A Heap O Livin
[english | 1916]Edgar Guest
Summary: [Ive been reading and re-reading this one for years. These were newspaper verses printed in 1916 and theyre all sincere straightforward and corny. I have learned something important myself as a writer from Guest: there are important things you just cant say if youre afraid of looking unsophisticated. If youre willing to risk looking like an unsophisticated reader youll enjoy these.]
Genres: [poetry] Downloads: 192
A History Of The Third French Republic
[english | 1916]Charles Henry Conrad Wright
Summary: [A History of is a 1971 non-fiction book by physicist Petr Beckmann that presents a laymans introduction to the concept of the mathematical constant Pi. Beckmann was a Czechoslovakian who fled the Communist regime to come to the United States his dislike of authority gives A History of a style that belies its dry title. For example his chapter on the era following the classical age of ancient ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 358
A Mulher Portugueza
[english | 1916]Eduardo Shwalbach Lucci
Summary: [A Mulher Portugueza Latest Edition Portuguese Edition by Eduardo Shwalbach Lucci. A Mulher Portugueza by Eduardo Shwalbach Lucci]
Genres: [non fiction] Downloads: 267
A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
[english | 1916]James Joyce
Summary: [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce first serialized in The Egoist from 1914 to 1915 and published in book form in 1916. It depicts the formative years in the life of Stephen Dedalus a fictional alter ego of Joyce and a pointed allusion to the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology Daedalus.A Portrait is a key example of the Knstlerroman (an ...]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 234
A Voice In The Wilderness
[english | 1916]Grace Livingston Hill
Summary: [Margaret Earle an Eastern girl thinking she has reached her destination in Arizona where she is going to teach school steps off the train at a lonely desert water tank and the train moves on leaving her in the darkness and in a strange forlorn land. But she steps off into a series of adventures and thrilling events which make entertaining reading indeed. After an unpleasant encounter with one man ...]
Genres: [fiction | romance | westerns] Downloads: 399
Action Front
[english | 1916]Boyd Cable
Summary: [Well worth a read]
Genres: [war | fiction and literature] Downloads: 186
An Amiable Charlatan
[english | 1916]Edward Phillips Oppenheim
Summary: [The thing happened so suddenly that I really had very little time to make up my mind what course to adopt under somewhat singular circumstances. I was seated at my favorite table against the wall on the right-hand side in Stephanos restaurant with a newspaper propped up before me a glass of hock by my side and a portion of the plat du jour which happened to be chicken en casserole on the plate in ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 291
An Ethical Problem
[english | 1916]Albert Leffingwell
Summary: [good]
Genres: [science | philosophy] Downloads: 224
An Open Letter to Boris Souvarine
[english | 1916]Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Summary: [Bolsheviks: Revolutionary wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party which under the leadership of Lenin led the working class to the taking of power in October 1917. Trotsky and his supporters joined the Bolshevik Party at its conference of July 1917 past differences between them having been resolved through the experience of the revolution. He was elected to the Bolshevik central ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 155
Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin
[english | 1916]Benjamin Franklin
Summary: [The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790 however Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklins death this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of autobiography ever written. ...]
Genres: [biography | audiobook | history] Downloads: 487
Baldy Of Nome
[english | 1916]Esther Birdsall Darling
Summary: [Baldy Of Nome An Immortal Of The Trail by Esther Birdsall Darling. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. that were either part of the original artifact or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important and despite the imperfections ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 273
Big Timber
[english | 1916]Bertrand Sinclair
Excerpts: [... the same pleasant channels. Just so. But a broken steering knuckle on a heavy touring car set things in a different light-many things. She learned ...... mourning. One way and another we've all got to come to it some day.. Stella looked out over the placid, shimmering surface of Roaring Lake for a ...... the way of considering necessities are luxuries. And they're out of the ...]
Genres: [western | adventure | romance] Downloads: 437
Bindle
[english | 1916]Herbert Jenkins
Summary: [Fun-loving Mr. Bindle often loses his jobs due to a propensity for mischief much to the chagrin of his dour church-going wife. Bindles pranks are not always nice but he does have a heart of gold. A fun light-hearted read.]
Genres: [humor | fiction and literature] Downloads: 460
Bob Hunt In Canada
[english | 1916]George Orton
Excerpts: [... have to take some stuff along to get rid of the flies, from all I hear.. You big dub, don't you know that they fish with flies. said Bill in a ...... in those cities. The fact is that outside of the province of Quebec, Canada is just as much an English-speaking country as the United States. Is that ...... States. In good time they turned in, and five-thirty saw Bob out of bed and ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 404
Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal
[english | 1916]G Harvey Ralphson
Excerpts: [... those of our readers who have had the pleasure of riding in aircraft, sounds from the earth are distinctly heard at a great altitude. In fact, sounds ...... The ones in the aeroplane are trying to escape are they not? Why, then, should they not come back? Well, why shouldn't they get away? ...... be no match for a bullet if one should be sent after him. Besides, he saw that his ...]
Genres: [adventure | fiction and literature] Downloads: 287
Buffalo Bill And The Pony Express
[english | 1916]Elmer Sherwood
Excerpts: [... None but a sure-footed animal would have dared to pass along this narrow lane. But there had been no hesitation on the part of boy or beast. Then, ...... it will last no man knows. Missouri is even in a worse state than Kansas the pro-slavers are in control of all the offices. There are many men ...... dismounted, for Bill looked very business-like and they felt it safer to make ...]
Genres: [adventure | young readers] Downloads: 400
Bulletin De Lille 1916 03
[french | 1916]Anonymous
Excerpts: [... distributions de secours se poursuivent rgulirement. Comme prcdemment, les ...... comm. 1912. S'adresser 92, rue Caumartin. -Bonne d'une vingtaine d'annes est demande, route de Roubaix, 122, Mons-en-Baroeul. -Perdu montre dame ...... instituteur (en campagne) Mlles Clotilde et Marcelle Guesquire, ondment touchs des marques de sympathie, reues l'occasion du dcs de M. Louis GHESQUIRE,...]
Genres: [non fiction] Downloads: 10