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The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamesh: with an Account o…

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E. A. Wallis Budge


A short monograph devoted to the Babylonian flood myth and the Epic of Gilgamesh (Standard Babylonian version), dating from the 7th century …

The Epidemics of the Middle Ages

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Justus Hecker


Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker (1795-1850) was a German physician and medical writer, whose research focused on the history of epidemics, in a…

Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual

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F. Matthias Alexander


F. Matthias Alexander was an Australian actor, author and educator, who is best known as the inventor of Alexander Technique, a method for &…

The Nature of the Judicial Process

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Benjamin N. Cardozo


Benjamin N. Cardozo, one of the most influential American justists of his era, served as the New York Court of Appeals Chief Justice, before…

The Historical Evolution of the Ukrainian Problem

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Mykhailo Hrushevsky


A short history of Ukrainian national aspirations, written by one of the most prominent Ukrainian historians. Published in the early months …

Вехи-Сборник статей о русской интеллигенции (Vekhi)

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Nikolai Berdyaev, Sergei Bulgakov, Semyon Frank, Mikhail Gershenzon, Bogdan Kistyakovski, Aron Lande and Peter Struve


Сборник «Вехи» объединяет философские эссе, посвященные русской интеллигенции и её исторической роли. Появление сборника в 1909-…

Homage to John Dryden: Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century

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T. S. Eliot


Best known as a poet and playwright, Nobel Laureate T.S. Eliot also wrote many works of literary criticism. In this volume he gives us thr…

Modern Russian Literature

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D. S. Mirsky


Prince D.S. Mirsky was a prominent Russian literary historian who spent several years in emigration, teaching at the University of London. T…

On Not Knowing Greek

In The Common Reader

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Virginia Woolf


A collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, some of which originally appeared in the Times Literary Supplement or the Dial, and others were or…

The Art of Shakespeare, As Revealed By Himself

In A Dish of Orts: Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare

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George MacDonald


Readers of George MacDonald are used to his engaging story-telling, winsome characters, and simple theology of trust in God as Father. But t…

Peter the Great Modernizes Russia, AD 1689 by Alfred Rambaud

In The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12

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Charles F. Horne


A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…

Chapter II - Among Officers of the Czar

In The Red Reign: The True Story of an Adventurous Year in Russia

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Kellogg Durland


Kellogg Durland spent a year in Russia as a journalist in 1906, during a seminal period in Russian history. This is a highly interesting rea…

Chapter XI Interregnum, part 1

In The Medici, Volume 1

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G. F. Young


This work relates the history of the Medici family through three centuries and eleven generations, from its rise from obscurity, to its zeni…

Per la morte di Napoleone Eugenio

In Nuove odi barbare

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Giosuè Carducci


Edizione del 1882 di 20 nuove poesie della serie "odi barbare" in cui sono incluse anche 3 traduzione di alcune esse in tedesco ed…

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In Syria: the Desert and the Sown

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Gertrude Bell


Gertrude Bell's Syria: The Desert and the Sown describes her travels in the Levant (also called Greater Syria) during the first years of the…