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New Grub Street

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George Gissing


"The story deals with the literary world that Gissing himself had experienced. Its title refers to the London street, Grub Street, whic…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 3

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Giorgio Vasari


The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti…

I Am A Cat (excerpt)

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Sōseki Natsume


These are the first two chapters of Natsume Sōseki's masterpiece, "I Am A Cat" (Wagahai wa Neko de Aru). It is recognized as a lan…

Appreciations, with an Essay on Style

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Walter Pater


Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, is a collection of Walter Pater's previously-published essays on literature. The collection was well …

Letters on England

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Voltaire


Voltaire spent his early thirties in England as an exile following the Bastille imprisonment for his satires. With passionate admiration, he…

Tales and Stories

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Mary Shelley


While Mary Shelley will most likely always be known for her enduring classic of mad science Frankenstein, this collection intends to show th…

The House by the Medlar Tree

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Giovanni Verga


In a nineteenth century Sicilian fishing village, the Malavoglia family gambles everything on being able to profit from a cargo of lupin nut…

Settlers of the Marsh

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Frederick Philip Grove


The novel “Settlers of the Marsh” (1925) is a foundational work of realism in Canadian fiction. Its author, Frederick Philip Grove, a German…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 5

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Giorgio Vasari


The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti…

Corpus Earthling

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Louis Charbonneau


Paul Cameron is an English literature teacher at a local college and seems to be living a relatively content but somewhat lonely life in his…

Moments With Mark Twain

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Mark Twain


These selections from the works of Mark Twain are presented in chronological order. They include the memorable whitewashing of the fence in …

Said and Did

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George MacDonald


LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Said and Did by George MacDonald..This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 2, 2018. …

Dialogues of the Dead

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George Lyttelton


Can the dead of different ages and spaces meet in the afterlife? This is a thought that has occupied a number of writers throughout literatu…

Incredible Adventures

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Algernon Blackwood


"In the volume titled Incredible Adventures occur some of the finest tales which the author has yet produced, leading the fancy to wild…

Raleigh

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Edmund Gosse


Sir Walter Raleigh's plan in 1584 for colonization in the "Colony and Dominion of Virginia" (which included the present-day states…

The World’s Story Volume XII: The United States

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Eva March Tappan


This is the twelfth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March …

Strange Roads & With the Gods in Spring

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Arthur Machen and Vincent Starrett


The centerpieces of this collection are two essays by Arthur Machen, Strange Roads and With the Gods in Spring. Both use images of journeys …

The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 02. February 1896

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National Geographic Society


The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the February Number. It includes the following articles:* Venezuela: Her Governmen…

Силуэты русских писателей, Выпуск 2

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Yuly Aykhenvald


Бесконечно преданный русской литературе, Юлий Айхенвальд видел писателя как уникальную личность и не признавал литературных школ и течений. …

The World’s Story Volume XIII: The United States

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Eva March Tappan


This is the thirteenth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva Mar…

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