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The Riddle of the Purple Emperor

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Thomas W. Hanshew


Orphan Lady Margaret Cheyne returns home on her eighteenth birthday to live with her embittered maiden aunt and to take up her inheritance o…

In Kent with Charles Dickens

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Thomas Frost


By his own admission, Thomas Frost found it hard to make a living from his writing, and no doubt he used the name of Dickens in the title of…

The World of Sound

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Sir William Henry Bragg


The World of Sound consists of six lectures delivered before a juvenile audience at the Royal Institution, Christmas 1919. The Royal Institu…

The Story of Electricity

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John Munro


In the book's preface, the author writes: "Let anyone stop to consider how he individually would be affected if all electrical service …

The Wonderful Garden

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E. Nesbit


Do you believe in magic? Caroline, Charles and Charlotte do, and nothing that happens during their summer holiday at their great uncle's hou…

The Woman Who Did

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Grant Allen


Most times, especially in the time when this book was written (1895), it is just as nature and society would wish: a man and woman "fal…

East by West, Vol. 2

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Sir Henry W. Lucy


East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East in 1883…

Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World

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Castello Newton Holford


Aristopia (published 1895) is truly an alternative history. It is an imagination of how the continent of North America might have developed…

The Westminster Alice

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Saki


Published five years before John Kendrick Bangs had the same idea with Alice in Blunderland, Saki, in his 1902 series of satirical articles,…

The World's Lumber Room

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Selina Gaye


If this book were written today, it would be called "The Story of the World's Rubbish".That may not sound a promising subject for …

Faces and Places

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Sir Henry W. Lucy


Faces and Places is a collection of articles on nineteenth century travel, events and personalities by the British journalist Henry Lucy, wh…

Wuthering Heights (Version 2)

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Emily Brontë


Emily Brontë's only novel, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet…

The Human Machine

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Arnold Bennett


Bennett asks us to consider our brains as the most wonderful machine, a machine which is the only thing in this world that we can control. A…

The Speaking Voice

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Katherine Jewell Everts


From the Preface of The Speaking Voice: principles of training simplified and condensed: "This book offers a method of voice training w…

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

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Edwin Abbott Abbott


Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 science fiction novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. As a satire, Flat…

Women in Love

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D. H. Lawrence


Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and fol…

Ruby Wedding Collection

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Various


This collection comprises short stories, poems, a little bit of history and a little bit of ornithology, all with ruby connections. The read…

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