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BEETHOVEN

In Stories of Symphonic Music

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Lawrence Gilman

'A guide to the meaning of important symphonies, overtures and tone-poems from Beethoven to the present day'. Gilman became notorious for sc…

Ch II. Leaders of Industry—Inventors and Producers, Part 2

In Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance

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Samuel Smiles

Self-Help is the book that gave its name to the whole genre of literature known by that name. It is full of profiles of individuals who, thr…

Adrift

In My Danish Sweetheart Volume 1

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William Clark Russell

Young Hugh Tregarthen has grown up in a seafaring Cornish family, but is not born to follow the family tradition. Against his mother's wishe…

NICOLAI – The Merry Wives of Windsor

In Stories From The Operas

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Gladys Davidson

"Owing to the appreciation which has been accorded to my three series of "Stories from the Operas," it has been decided to re…

Chapter III - Rodomont and the Invasion of Europe by the Saracens

In Tales from Ariosto

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Ludovico Ariosto and Joseph Shield Nicholson

The object of the present venture is to do something to revive the interest of the ordinary English reader in Ariosto. The present volume is…

Chapter LXII - The Sentence Pronounced

In The Legacy of Cain

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Wilkie Collins

Eunice and Helena are sisters brought up by their father, the Reverend Abel Gracedieu. They grow up quietly and happily, until some dark sec…

Printing Presses - Pure Food

In 1000 Things Worth Knowing

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Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr.

Part almanac, part encyclopedia, part dictionary, Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. gives us his idea of important, but sometimes obscure, facts that…

Siegfried’s Youth

In Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages

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Wilhelm Wägner

This volume contains the principal hero-lays of the six great epic cycles of the Teutonic Middle Ages: The Langobardian Legends, the Amelung…