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The History of the Art of Tablesetting

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Claudia Quigley Murphy


The art of table setting is one of the lost arts in the modern household. Do we just not bother anymore or did we collectively forget how to…

The Early Poems of Hart Crane

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Hart Crane


A collection of Hart Crane poems published before 1923.These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (The Pagan, The Double Deal…

The History of a Lie: "The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion"

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Herman Bernstein


A presentation and deconstruction of the "Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion", an anti-Semitic work fabricated in order to brand Je…

Silhouettes

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Arthur Symons


This is a collection of verses by British poet, critic and magazine editor Arthur Symons, which, as some reviewers assure us, was "'unw…

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (version 2)

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Hugh Lofting


Doctor Dolittle and his friends travel to South America to meet the greatest naturalist in the New World. A note to listeners: This book was…

The Free Press

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Hilaire Belloc


I propose to discuss in what follows the evil of the great modern Capitalist Press, its function in vitiating and misinforming opinion and i…

Minstrel Weather

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Marian Storm


A series of poetically written meditations on the seasons and other nature subjects. Or “ …Minstrel Weather, a series of open-air vignettes…

Plum Pudding (version 2)

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Christopher Morley


Christopher Morley: A modern humorist with the tang of an Elizabethan. Plum Pudding: Thus Mr. Morley entitles his new volume, in which he ha…

Tanka: Poems in Exile

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Jun Fujita


Jun Fujita's tanka are timeless, still, sad. Written in English, one wonders whether the recurring deserts are in Japan, in America, or in t…

Selected Poems

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Iris Barry


Iris Barry was a British and American poet, novelist, film critic and curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. These poems were…

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

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M. M. Pattison Muir


A light journey through the history of chemistry, from its start in the obscure mysteries of alchemy to what was, for the author, the cuttin…

The Waste Land (version 3)

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T. S. Eliot


The Waste Land is T. S. Eliot's Modernist masterpiece, first published in 1920. Rich in allusions to Shakespeare, Dante, Baudelaire, the Bib…

The Man in the Moone

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Francis Godwin


A self-serving Spaniard discovers a means of traveling to the moon, describing his sensations in transit in terms remarkably consistent with…

Gawayne and the Green Knight (Lewis Translation)

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The Gawain Poet, Charlton Miner Lewis and The Gawain Poettranslated Bycharlton Miner Lewis


Charlton Miner Lewis' version of Gawayne and the Green Knight, a late 14th century alliterative romance, is written in modern language telli…

금수회의록 (Geum-su-Hue-I-Lok) Assembly of Animals

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Guk-Seon Ahn


동물들이 토론을 하며 인류를 비판하는 토론체 우화 소설이다. 최초의 신소설이며 일제가 1909년 금서를 하였다. - Summary by 위키피디아Assembly of Animals is an allegorical tale of animals meeti…

Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery

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Arthur Gay Payne


This is a little cookbook of vegetarian recipes, which were only slowly gaining popularity in England at the time of its publication in 1891…

And Thus He Came

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Cyrus Townsend Brady


These short stories, perhaps we might call them modern parables, are not the usual fare of warm and fuzzy Christmas stories (pleasing as tho…

The Merry Anne

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Samuel Merwin and Samuel Merwin, Sr.


This 1904 maritime adventure is set in the Great Lakes region, upon water and in wood. Our hero is caught in a smuggling scheme and may lose…

Mountain Adventures in the Various Countries of the World

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John Timbs


Mountains have always been fascinating as places of special adventure. This book. first published in 1869, collects true stories of real-lif…

The Fable of the Bees

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Bernard Mandeville


Bernard Mandeville's didactic poem praising the virtues that personal vices bestow on society as a whole, along with several treatises and d…

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