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Another Offering
Read by Devorah Allen
George MacDonald
In The Elect Lady
Two farmer's sons and a cotter's daughter, though on different rungs of the social scale, formed a close bond in childhood as they learned t…
Introduction
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Various
In Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England
This traditional, and, for the most part, unprinted literature,—cherished in remote villages, resisting everywhere the invasion of modern na…
Introductory Note
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Geoffrey Bache Smith
In A Spring Harvest
G.B. Smith is best known for his close friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien, who would go on to write the fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. He w…
Letters 25-26
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William Hill Brown
In The Power of Sympathy; or, the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth
The Power of Sympathy was the first American novel, published in Boston in January 1789. An epistolary novel, it tells the tragic story of t…
Part I, Chapter IX: Forty!
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Frank W. Boreham
In Mushrooms on the Moor
A series of essays exhorting us with wit and humor to retain our childlike sense of wonder and delight in the world that God has made. A del…
Morning
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George MacDonald
In There and Back
An unscrupulous baronet is left a widower and couldn't care less what happens to his ugly newborn heir. But when an icy stepmother moves in …
Evil-Speaking
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Samuel Logan Brengle
In Heart Talks on Holiness
Samuel Logan Brengle was a commissioner in the Salvation Army. His books are known for the practicality, joyfulness and authenticity. His li…
Chapter XVIII
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James Francis Thierry
In The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons
The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons: Being one of the Exciting Episodes in the Career of the Famous Detective Hemlock Holmes as Record…
Preface and Introduction
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George MacDonald
In England's Antiphon
"In this book I have sought to trace the course of our religious poetry from an early period of our literary history. ... [I]f its poet…
Introductory Material
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Harriet Kiernan
In The Invalid's Hymn Book
"The following selection of Hymns has been made for the use of persons in great bodily weakness. … The present object is to afford, in …
Goblin Feet by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Various
In Oxford Poetry 1915
The first of many yearly-published Oxford poetry books. - Summary by Campbell SchelpPoets include: Gerald H. CrowEric DickinsonEsther Lilian…
Observ. XL.
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Robert Hooke
In Micrographia
Published in 1665, this is the first publication of the Royal Society and considered to be the first scientific best-seller. As opposed to t…
Introduction
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John Mason Neale
In Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences
This book is a collection of English translations of medieval Latin hymns. It contains interesting historical and/or liguistic facts about e…
Donal Grant
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George MacDonald
After leaving home in search of work, Donal Grant accepts a position as tutor to a young boy who lives in a sprawling castle, which also hou…
The Offing
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Frank W. Boreham
In Shadows on the Wall
Frank W. Boreham was a Baptist preacher from England who spent many years in New Zealand and Australia, but also traveled extensively in the…
Preface
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George MacDonald and Sir Philip Sidney
In A Cabinet of Gems
A Cabinet of Gems, cut and polished by Sir Philip Sidney; now, for the more radiance, presented without their setting by George MacDonald.&q…
The Doll
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Barry Pain
In Stories in Grey
This is a collection of short stories by Barry Pain. Pain was well-known in his time for his supernatural and horror stories. This collectio…
Chapter 03
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Douay-Rheims Version (DRV) and Douay-Rheims Version
In Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: 2 Maccabees
The Book of 2 Machabees (more commonly rendered 2 Maccabees) is an abridgement of another work, now lost, which describes the events surroun…
Selected works
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Charles Grant Allen and Grant Allen
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 01
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
36 - A Change
Read by Rhonda Federman
George MacDonald
In Mary Marston
Written at the height of George MacDonald's literary career, the story centers around the life of a simple merchant's daughter. Mary Marston…