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William, An Englishman

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Cicely Hamilton


William – an Englishman is a 1919 novel by Cicely Hamilton. The novel explores the effect of the First World War on a married couple during …

Contes du soleil et de la brume

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Anatole Le Braz


Anatole Le Braz fut un écrivain de talent, recueillant des contes, des traditions, des us et coutumes, des croyances, en Bretagne. Br…

Java Head

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Joseph Hergesheimer


Java Head is a novel of the American merchant marine at the beginning of the great clipper ship era. It is laid in Salem, when that city was…

Harrington

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Maria Edgeworth


Harrington follows the protagonist of the same name who tries to explore his memories in order to understand his views on Jews. It begins wi…

The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt

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Théophile Gautier


The account he gives, in his novel, of the ancient city of Thebes, of the great necropolis in the valley of Biban el Molûk, of the sub…

Mémoires d'outre-tombe. Tome 1

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François-René de Chateaubriand


Ouvrage relatant, depuis l'enfance, la vie de CHATEAUBRIAND, avec l'Histoire de France , Bonaparte, Napoléon, la Restauration, etc...…

Japanese Fairy World: Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan

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William Elliot Griffis


William Elliot Griffis born in Philadelphia in 1843, was an educator, author and Congregational minister. In 1870 he was invited to go to Ja…

Flor de Santidad. Historia milenaria

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Ramón Del Valle-Inclán and Ramón del Valle-Inclán


Esta historia milenaria cuenta la seducción de una ingenua pastora, Adega, por un peregrino a quien ella identifica con Dios y del qu…

Prejudices, First Series

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H. L. Mencken


Mencken sharpens his pen and in a collection of short essays delivers acerbic opinions on issues and persons of the time. Among his targets…

Stories from the Adirondacks

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Albert A. Young


A collection of five stories all of which take place in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, and most which contain elements of som…

More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain

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Mark Twain


"More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain" fills in the gaps left by the first collection of newspaper articles: "Newspaper Arti…

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…

Deutsche Hausmärchen

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Johann Wilhelm Wolf


Johann Wilhelm Wolf war Germanist und Schriftsteller, sein Schwager Wilhelm von Ploennies war Leutnant, Militärschriftsteller und Ü…

Promenades japonaises

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Emile Guimet


Voyage d'Emile Guimet avec Félix Régamey, dessinateur. Regard sur le pays, les paysages, la société, et histoire…

Ontario Public School Geography

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Unknown


This Ontario Public School textbook, published in 1922, contains some fascinating facts of a world which no longer exists. It seems politica…

Stories of the Scottish Border

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William Platt


Nothing seems to be known about Mr and Mrs William Platt, the writers of Stories of the Scottish Border. What they produced is an eccentric …

On an Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara

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Samuel Gamble Bayne


This book gives a brief glimpse into the social history of Ireland in the early part of the 20th Century. During his 1902 tour through the n…

Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji, Version 2)

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Murasaki Shikibu


Genji Monogatari, or The Tale of Genji, is a Japanese classic novel from the eleventh century. Supposedly commissioned by members of the Imp…

La Main enchantée

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Gérard de Nerval and Gérard De Nerval


La Main enchantée ou "La Main de gloire".Edition 1901. Préface de Jules de Marthold très intéressante.…

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