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English Literature for Boys and Girls

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Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall


"Has there ever been a time when no stories were told? Has there ever been a people who did not care to listen? I think not."Thus …

Music From The Middle Ages and The Renaissance


Ranjith Daluwatta


Collection of Music from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance  period. From the thousand-year period extending from ca. 500 to 1500 C.E.…

Erasmus and the Age of Reformation

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Johan Huizinga


This shorter book on Erasmus might be considered a companion to Huizinga's most famous work, The Waning of the Middle Ages. While in his mag…

The Story Of The World: A Simple History For Boys And Girls

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Elizabeth O'Neill


Dedicatory Letter. Dear Doris, I could not tell you all the things which have ever happened in the world, but I have tried to tell you short…

A History of Freedom of Thought

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John Bagnell Bury


The great civil liberties we enjoy today, like Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press, have their foundation in Freedom of Thought. With…

Saints and Heroes Since the Middle Ages Volume 2

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George Hodges


In this second volume, Hodges uses stories of the lives of fourteen well-known saints and heroes of the faith to continue the history of the…

A Young Girl's Diary

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Anonymoustranslated Bycedar Paul


The diary of an upper middle class Austrian girl, this book describes her life between the ages of eleven and fourteen. It's a coming of age…

A Dream of John Ball

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William Morris


A Dream of John Ball recounts a dream of being transported back in time to 1381 during the Peasants' Revolt as John Ball and an army of peas…

History of the Jews in Russia and Poland Volume III, From the Accession of Nich…

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Simon Dubnow


Simon Dubnow was born in 1860 to a poor Jewish family in Belarussian town of Mstsislaw and later became authority of Jewish history and an a…

A Short History of England

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G. K. Chesterton


Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a prolific writer on many topics. His views of history were always from the standpoint of men and their interac…

The Cloud of Unknowing

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Anonymoustranslated Byevelyn Underhill


The Cloud of Unknowing (Middle English: The Cloude of Unknowyng) is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in th…

Saints and Heroes to the End of the Middle Ages

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George Hodges


Though these stories of the lives of twenty saints and heroes of the faith, we have an introduction to the history of the church from 3rd ce…

History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume II, From the Death of Alexande…

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Simon Dubnow


Simon Dubnow was born in 1860 to a poor Jewish family in Belarussian town of Mstsislaw and later became an authority of Jewish history and a…

Black Magic: a Tale of the Rise and Fall of the Antichrist

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Marjorie Bowen


Witches, spells, ghosts, pacts with the Devil, occult rituals, love triangles, popes and the Anti-Christ are some of the ingredients of this…

Melor of the Silver Hand; and Other Stories of the Bright Ages

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David Bearne


This is a collection of fairy tales by Rev. David Bearne. The stories take place in the "Bright Ages" as opposed to the more commo…

Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving

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Washington Irving


Washington Irving's Old Christmas tells of an American's travels through England during the Christmas season. Through a chance meeting with…

Ladies Whose Bright Eyes: A Romance (1911 version)

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Ford Madox Ford


After a train accident, one Mr. Sorrell finds himself transported back to the Middle Ages, where he is mistaken for a Greek slave who works …

The Art of Music - Volume 01: The Pre-Classic Periods

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Daniel Gregory Mason and The National Society Of Music


Volume 1 in the "The Art of Music" series, published by the National Society of Music. This first volume covers the "Pre-Clas…

Woman in Science

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John Augustine Zahm


A history of woman's role in science through the ages and the many contributions she has made. (summary by Guero)

The Guide for the Perplexed, Part 2

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Moses Maimonides


In the Guide of the Perplexed Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon) achieved an original and highly influential synthesis of religious and secular l…

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