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Lancashire Characters and Places

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Thomas Newbigging


An eclectic collection of essays on late 19th-century Lancashire culture and life, including essays on the poets John Critchley Prince and E…

BLAST No. 1

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Various


BLAST, edited by Wyndham Lewis and subtitled 'Review of the Great British Vortex', was the magazine of the short-lived Vorticist movement in…

Snowball (Version 2)

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Poul William Anderson


Simon's new source of power promised a new era for Mankind. But what happens to world economy when anyone can manufacture it in the kitchen …

The People of the Crater (Version 2)

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Andre Norton


Now that the latest world wide war has ended, Captain Garin, the hottest fighter pilot of the American force, is reduced to poverty and hung…

Three Accounts of Peterloo

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Francis Archibald Bruton


A companion volume to F.A. Bruton's 'The Story of Peterloo', the full title of this short collection is 'Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewi…

Peace

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Aristophanes


The 'Peace' was brought out four years after 'The Acharnians' (422 B.C.), when the War had already lasted ten years. The leading motive is t…

The Shipwreck

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William Falconer


A semi-autobiographical poem in three cantos recounts the wreck of the merchant ship Britannia. Written by William Falconer, a seaman of so…

Red Shadows (Version 2)

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Robert E. Howard


Excitement and sorcery mixed with blades of steel. The mysterious stranger who appears out of nowhere to avenge injustice and defend the d…

The Hungry Tiger of Oz

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Ruth Plumly Thompson


The Hungry Tiger gets a chance to eat LOTS of people. What will happen!?? Will his conscience stop him or will he finally stop his stomach…

Dionysius the Areopagite, with other poems

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Ann Hawkshaw


An early figure in the birth of poetry in industrial Manchester, Ann Hawkshaw published three collections and another was circulated private…

North Lancashire

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John Edward Marr


Cambridge County Geographies was a 75 volume series covering the counties of England, Scotland and Wales. Separate volumes were produced for…

Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods

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William T. Cox


A limbless reptilian monster that propels itself through the swamps with a propellor-tipped tail? A creature so ashamed of its monstrous app…

Poems and Songs in the Lancashire Dialect

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Edwin Waugh


A selection of poems in the Lancashire dialect by the foremost exponent of the form. A printer by training, Edwin Waugh left his trade for s…

Small Souls

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Louis Couperus


Constance van der Welcke returns to the Hague and the bosom of her family after a twenty year exile caused by a marital indiscretion and div…

Forty Seasons of First-Class Cricket

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Richard Gorton Barlow


R. G. "Dick" Barlow was one of the most accomplished all-round cricketers of the late 19th Century. For many years he opened the b…

Coniston Tales

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William Gershom Collingwood


A selection of poems and short prose pieces grounded in the landscape, history and legends of Coniston in the English Lake District. W. G. C…

The Service

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Henry David Thoreau


An essay in three parts written in July 1840. "Human life is his topic, and he views it with an Oriental scope of thought, in which di…

O. Henryana

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O. Henry


A book of poems and short stories. - Summary by Fritz

Wild and romantic: Early guides to the English lake district

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Thomas Gray


A collection of some of the most significant literary work on the English Lake District prior to Thomas West’s A guide to the Lakes (1778). …

St. Clair's Defeat 1791

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Anonymous


St. Clair's defeat was a battle fought between the United States and the Western Confederacy of Native Americans on November 4, 1791, during…

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