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Tales of the Uneasy

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Violet Hunt


Nine twisty-turny tales of tragic human drama, played out in Victorian parlors, death beds and lonely country roads. This collection of Viol…

The Hound From the North

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Ridgwell Cullum


Gold! Opium! Love! Murder! Revenge! Prairie intrigue at its best:Prudence helps her mother run a ranch in southern Manitoba. Her brother has…

White Rose of Weary Leaf

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Violet Hunt


Isobel Violet Hunt was a British author renowned for her literary salons, which hosted such notables as H.G. Wells, D.H. Laurence, Henry Jam…

A Woman's Life

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Guy de Maupassant


Having spent her girlhood at a convent getting a good education, Jeanne has just returned home and is a happy young woman full of hope and e…

No Surrender

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Constance Elizabeth Maud


Written from the midst of the struggle for female suffrage, Constance Elizabeth Maud’s novel No Surrender (1911) is a Call to Arms. It is a …

The Vertical City

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Fannie Hurst


As the city above soars gloriously skyward, the denizens of the city writhe in its dirty underbelly.The Vertical City is a collection of six…

His Masterpiece

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Émile Zola


“His Masterpiece" (“L’Oeuvre”) is a fictionalized account of the Parisian art world in the mid 19th century, and the emerging Realism, …

Notes On Democracy

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H. L. Mencken


American journalist H.L. Mencken’s Notes On Democracy was originally published in 1926, yet is still relevant almost 100 years later.Mencken…

Tongues of Conscience

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Robert Smythe Hichens


Tongues of Conscience (1898) is a collection of five thought-provoking stories where an innocent, but selfish, action leads to horrific cons…

Part 3 The Evidences of Evolution – Section 3 Paleontology – Chapter 27b Insects

In Organic Evolution

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Richard Swann Lull


Organic Evolution is a college textbook that describes the mechanism of biological evolution by natural selection. It then explores the evid…

Sir Galahad by Alfred Lord Tennyson (verse)

In Heroes Every Child Should Know

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Hamilton Wright Mabie


The endeavour has been made in this volume to bring together the heroic men of different races, periods and types; and in the selection of m…

Lynx-Hunting

In Whilomville Stories

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Stephen Crane


This collection consists of thirteen stories. The stories are set in the mythical town of Whilomville used by Stephen Crane for many of his …