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Companionable Books

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Henry van Dyke


Many books are dry and dusty, there is no juice in them; and many are soon exhausted, you would no more go back to them than to a squeezed o…

Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

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William Hazlitt


This famous Shakespearean exploration illuminates its plays through the frame of character, while also weighing theme, mood, structure and p…

The waning of the middle ages: a study of the forms of life, thought and art in…

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Johan Huizinga


The Waning of the Middle Ages (also known as The Autumn of the Middle Ages, or Autumntide of the Middle Ages), subtitled A study of the form…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 090

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Various


In his autobiographical essay "The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob," Booker T. Washington wrote: "It is not argument, nor cr…

Bernice

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Susan Glaspell


The death of a larger than life woman leaves behind an equally huge hole in the hearts of those who knew her, a hole only made deeper and da…

The Green Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang


Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Altho…

Middlemarch

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George Eliot


The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Rosamon…

The Secret Places of the Heart

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H. G. Wells


Richard Hardy, a member of the British gentry, tries to resolve problems in his marriage as he travels with a psychiatrist. The book is to a…

Lady Byron Vindicated

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Harriet Beecher Stowe


In 1869, the Atlantic published Stowe's article, The True Story Of Lady Byron's Life, a brief exposé of the famous poet Lord Byron's …

Modern Essays

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Christopher Morley


Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph.…

The Fundamentals Volume 2

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Sir Robert Anderson


The Fundamentals: A Testimony To The Truth (generally referred to simply as The Fundamentals) is a set of ninety essays published between 19…

The Defense of Poesy

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Sir Philip Sidney


Sidney envisions the world as an ideally ordered structure that rewards good and punishes evil, but this order, vitiated by sin, has fallen …

Eugenics and Other Evils

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G. K. Chesterton


I think G.K. Chesterton explains his book rather well in his introduction, but it might help to start with a sense of the time in question. …

בעמק הבכא The Wishing-Ring

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מנדלה מוכר ספרים Mendele Mocher Sforim


Mendele Mocher Sforim (Mendele Book seller, literary name for Shalom Jacob Abramovitsch) (1835 - 1917, b. Kapulye, Belorussia), one of the f…

ספר הקבצנים Fishke the Lame (The Book of Beggars)

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מנדלה מוכר ספרים Mendele Mocher Sforim


Mendele Mocher Sforim (Literary name for Shalom Jacob Abramovitsch) (1835 - 1917, b. Kapulye, Belorussia), one of the first modern Jewish wr…

The Origins of Christianity

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Thomas Whittaker


The full title of this book is The Origins of Christianity with an Outline of Van Manen’s Analysis of The Pauline Literature. Willem Christi…

The American Language

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H. L. Mencken


"It was part of my daily work, for a good many years, to read the principal English newspapers and reviews; it has been part of my work…

Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent.

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Washington Irving


The Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. (1824) is a compilation of eight humorous and observational letters written by American writer, Wash…

The Heirloom - Complete

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T. Duthie-Lisle


It is not the pleasing office of the writer of fiction to unfold for the delectation of his readers the pages and pictures of the volume of …

A Theologico-Political Treatise

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Benedict De Spinoza


Written by the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza, the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus or Theologico-Political Treatise was one of the most con…

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