Books published in 1918
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Hearts Of Three
[english | 1918]Jack London
Summary: [Originally intended as a film scenario this plot is an improbably adventure story that cant help but bring to mind the Lost Ark films of decades later!]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 364
Higher Education And Business Standards
[english | 1918]Willard Hotchkiss
Excerpts: [... She knew what to do with bouquets raw material for making them was within her reach what more natural than to turn it, in the most obvious and ...... of its pain or the fear of its repetition. This memory of the past and fear of the future usually wage a most unequal contest with the vivid and ...... of business organization, the others have been piling up a large wastage of poor ...]
Genres: [non fiction | business] Downloads: 190
His Second Wife
[english | 1918]Ernest Poole
Summary: [The Innkeepers Wife is a 1958 Christmas story written by A. J. Cronin for The American Weekly. The story is about the wife of the innkeeper in Bethlehem who had no room for Mary and Joseph to spend the night. It originally appeared in the December 21 issue before being printed in book form by Hearst Publishing and is accompanied by Ben Stahls beautiful illustrations.]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 43
Imperialism and the Split in Socialism
[english | 1918]Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Summary: [It took a good deal of negotiation and courage for Lenin and a group of like-minded Russian revolutionaries to travel from Switzerland back to Russia through the enemy country of Germany. The man who returned to Russia in the spring of 1917 was of medium height quite bald except for the back of his head with a reddish beard. The features of his face were strikingslanted eyes that looked ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 266
In Het Oerwoud En Bij De Kannibalen Op De Nieuwe Hebriden
[dutch | 1918]Felix Speiser
Excerpts: [... kwam, die in den laatsten tijd talrijk waren geweest in deze wateren. Men vertelde avonturen met haaien en roggen en sprak over cyclonen. Van ...... maar als gast van den heer Colonna kon ik die niet aannemen, en eerst later heb ik veel steun en raad van Mr. King gekregen, waarvoor ik hem altijd ...... den hoogwaterstand trachtten te houden. Ofschoon er voor mij niets te jagen viel,...]
Genres: [non fiction] Downloads: 481
In Our First Year Of The War
[english | 1918]Woodrow Wilson
Summary: [The Year of Living Biblically: One Mans Humble Quest to follow the Bible as Literally as Possible is a book by A. J. Jacobs an editor at Esquire magazine published in 2007. He relates a year he spent trying to follow all the rules and guidelines he could find in the Bible which turned out to be more than 700. For the first eight months from September to April he followed the rules in the Old ...]
Genres: [politics] Downloads: 207
In The Fourth Year Anticipations Of A World Peace 1918
[english | 1918]H Wells
Summary: [Angus Wells (1943 - 2006) was a British writer of genre fiction including fantasy and westerns. Wells wrote under numerous pseudonyms including Andrew Quiller James A. Muir Charles R. Pike William S. Brady J. D. Sandon Charles C. Garrett (with Laurence James) Richard Kirk J. B. Dancer and Ian Evans.]
Genres: [war | non fiction] Downloads: 401
Independent Bohemia
[english | 1918]Vladimir Nosek
Summary: [Bibliography: p. 183-190.]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 433
Indian Heroes And Great Chieftains
[english | 1918]Charles Eastman
Summary: [Excellent and revealing book. I was only marginally aware of many of the Native American chiefs and heroes featured in this book. The book was very informative and surprisingly well-balanced.]
Genres: [history | biography] Downloads: 3
Iolanthe Wedding
[english | 1918]Hermann Sudermann
Excerpts: [... the pastor, Lothar and myself. The boy stood like a block of stone, staring at the mound as if to dig it up again with his eyes, and the wind blew ...... pass, gentlemen, to sleep on the matter-then my two coach-horses into the harness-my yellow trap-and heigho for Krakowitz. Beautiful bit of property, ...... to me not to go on speaking, and after trying several times to catch his ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 82
Jane Allen Right Guard
[english | 1918]Edith Bancroft
Summary: [Jane Allen Right Guard by Edith Bancroft. CHAPTER I DAY DREAMS Come out of your day dream Janie and guess what I have for you. Hands behind him Henry Allen stood looking amusedly down at his daughter. Stretched full length in a gaily striped hammock swung between two great trees her gray eyes dreamily turned toward the distant mountain peaks Jane Allen had not heard her father s noiseless ...]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 398
Japanese Memories
[english | 1918]Ethel Howard
Summary: [Japanese Memories by Ethel Howard. This Japanese memoir was published in 1918. A short summary from the book s Foreword The contents of this book are primarily personal experiences of a seven years stay in the house of a Japanese nobleman having been gleaned from jottings in my diary and such reminiscences as my memory recalls. In writing of a country so steeped in century-old traditions and of a ...]
Genres: [travel | non fiction | biography] Downloads: 336
Jim Spurling Fisherman
[english | 1918]Albert Walter Tolman
Excerpts: [... other ways of putting all I've got where it'll do some good. I've worked too hard and too long for my fortune to have a fool scatter it to the winds. ...... bigger schools, so I sent him down here. Thought he might do better in a quiet place. But his reports didn't show it, and the talk I've just had with ...... bleated from the pasture. A hawk sailed slowly in from the ocean and ...]
Genres: [adventure | nautical | fiction and literature] Downloads: 310
Karma
[english | 1918]Algernon Blackwood
Summary: [Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death Sex Divorce and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma (often referred to simply as Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate) is a book written by Zen monk and punk rock bassist Brad Warner. The book chronicles Warners 2007 the year in which Zen helped Warner handle his mother and grandmothers deaths the dissolution of his ...]
Genres: [drama] Downloads: 261
Kernel Cob And Little Miss Sweetclover
[english | 1918]George Mitchel
Excerpts: [... Jackie. And he stood on his tippy toes to look bigger. And I'd like Sweetclover to be a mother, says Peggs, and have hundreds and hundreds of children ...... I heard Auntie tell somebody, the other day, that both our parents were lost.. Just then the wind blew Sweetclover toward Kernel Cob, and, if you'd ...... you. he chirped. I'm Kernel Cob. And Sweetclover and I are looking for ...]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 167
La Copa De Verlaine
[spanish | 1918]Emilio Carrre
Excerpts: [... acaso en sus largas temporadas de hospital, al que el pobre Lelian llamaba su palacio de invierno. La capa de mendigo de Verlaine es hoy la bandera ...... a los figones de los poetas bohemios y durmieron en las clsicas posadas de la Cava Baja. A los pocos das madama Zarathustra exclam ingenuamente:. -En ...... un pedazo de intimidad al inters de los lectores. Zamacois, Roberto ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 51
Labime
[french | 1918]Charles Dickens
Summary: [Aprs avoir abandonn son enfant sa naissance lHospice des Enfants Trouvs une jeune mre prise de remords le rcupre lge de douze ans. Walter Wilding connat alors une existence heureuse prs de sa mre et devient marchand de vins. Malheureusement lorsquil atteint lge de vingt cinq ans sa mre dcde?]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 439
Labme
[french | 1918]Wilkie Collins
Summary: [tres bien]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 56
Le Retour De Linou
[french | 1918]Francois Fabie
Summary: [Suite des Moulins dautrefois ce second roman de Franois Fabi nous ramne sur la Durenque au moulin de Roupeyrac. Nous sommes en 1904. Religieuse Linou a vou sa vie lenseignement. La nouvelle loi de sparation venant de fermer son cole la voici de retour dans son village natal quitt il y a plus de trente ans. Tout a bien chang: les membres de sa famille se dchirent anticlricalisme et nouvelles ...]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 484
Left Wing Childishness and the Petty Bourgeois Mentality
[english | 1918]Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Summary: [Every revolution begins at the top as the ruling class with no clear way forward split over what course of action to take. In January 1916 a strike wave developed against food shortages and speculators. Feeling the movement building up from below a section of the ruling class favored making limited concessions. During late 1916 the mystic monk Rasputin was murdered and plots were laid for a ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 251