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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1

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Charles Mackay


The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philoso…

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 2

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Charles Mackay


"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, an…

Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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William Godwin


William Godwin writes a tell-all about his ex-wife one year after her death. Mary Wollstonecraft (mother of Mary Shelley) was an early propo…

The Three Musketeers

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Alexandre Dumas


The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d…

Poetry of Thomas Moore

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Thomas Moore


The Dubliner, Thomas Moore, born in 1779 was a poet, composer, musician, and writer. He is most famous for the 10 volume work "Irish Me…

Recollections of a Busy Life

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William Forwood


Liverpool in the second half of the 19th century was burgeoning with rich merchants and swollen with poor immigrants. It was known variously…

The Ulver Emergency



The Uiver Emergency A remarkable moment in aviation history took place in rural south east Australia. In the early hours of the morning of W…

The Morals (Moralia), Book 2

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus


The Moralia (loosely translatable as "Matters relating to customs") of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an e…

The Nobel Prize in 1904

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The Nobel Prizes are international awards bestowed once a year by Scandinavian committees for cultural and scientific advances. They were es…

A Second Rubaiyat Miscellany

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Louisa Stuart Costello, Edward Byles Cowell, Nathan Haskell Dole, Henry George Keene, R. Löwenberg, Charles Pickering, Frank Siller, Whitley Stokes and W. E. B. Whittaker


In 1840 Louisa Stuart Costello published in Fraser’s Magazine an article on classic Persian poetry, which included a section on Omar Khayyam…

Chancellorsville and Gettysburg

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Abner Doubleday


Abner Doubleday began the Civil War as a Union officer and aimed the first cannon shot in response to the bombardment opened on Ft. Sumter i…

The English Governess at the Siamese Court


Anna Harriette Leonowens


1862 Anna Leonowens accepted an offer made by the Siamese consul in Singapore, Tan Kim Ching, to teach the wives and children of Mongkut, k…

Culture and Cooking; Or, Art in the Kitchen

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Catherine Owen


This is not a cookery book. It makes no attempt to replace a good one; it is rather an effort to fill up the gap between you and your househ…

Izaak Walton's Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker and George Her…

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Izaak Walton


The full title of Walton's book of short biographies is, Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C.; Sir Henr…

Memoirs of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain Living in the Year…

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William Walker, Jr.


The early nineteenth century was a period of great discovery and advancements in science. Here we have a snapshot of some of those whose nam…

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Volumes 1 & 2

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Mark Twain


Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte." De Conte …

Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark

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Mary Wollstonecraft


Published in 1796, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark is a personal travel narrative by the eighteenth-…

The English Governess at the Siamese Court

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Anna Harriette Leonowens


In 1862 Anna Leonowens accepted an offer made by the Siamese consul in Singapore, Tan Kim Ching, to teach the wives and children of Mongkut,…

Current Affairs & Islaamic History - Kalamullah Downloads


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Hollywood musicals


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01 Hollywood musicals: The 30’s and 40’s. It’s easy to forget that the very first talkie, “The Jazz Singer” of 1927 with Al Jolson, featured…

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