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In The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe


In placing before the public this collection of Edgar Poe's poetical works, it is requisite to point out in what respects it differs from, a…

Chapter 3 Of The Extent Of Human Knowledge Part 1

In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book IV

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John Locke


This is the fourth book of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding. His book deals with knowledge and probability. He asks how far…

Excerpts from Life on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 09

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Mark Twain


The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

The Roswell Report: Case Closed

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James Mcandrew


The “Roswell Incident” has assumed a central place in American folklore since the events of the 1940s in a remote area of New Mexico. In Jul…

The Hawaiian Archipelago

Read by Jane Bennett


Isabella L. Bird


Six months among the palm groves, coral reefs, and volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands. - Summary by Isabella Bird

The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa

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Joseph H. Alexander


The three-month-long battle of Okinawa covered a 700-mile arc fromFormosa to Kyushu and involved a million combatants--Americans,Japanese, B…

U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Volume 1: The Pusan Perimeter

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Lynn Montross


It meant little to most Americans on 25 June 1950 to read in their Sunday newspapers that civil strife had broken out in Korea. They could h…

Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV

Read by Jane Bennett


Frantz Funck-Brentano


The court of French King Louis XIV was not a safe place to be. It was filled with plots and intrigues, leaving observers and commentators wi…

Across the Reef: The Marine Assault of Tarawa

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Joseph H. Alexander


"Tarawa Atoll is 2085 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor and 540 miles southeast of Kwajalein in the Marshalls. Betio is the principal isl…

Closing In: Marines in the Seizure of Iwo Jima

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Joseph H. Alexander


Sunday, 4 March 1945, marked the end of the second week of the U.S. invasion of Iwo Jima. By this point the assault elements of the 3d, 4th,…

First Offensive: The Marine Campaign for Guadalcanal

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Henry I. Shaw, Jr.


In the early summer of 1942, intelligence reports of the construction of a Japanese airfield near Lunga Point on Guadalcanal in the Solomon …

U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Volume 2: The Inchon-Seoul Operation

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Nicholas Canzona and Lynn Montross


The Inchon Landing was a major amphibious operation, planned in record time and executed with skill and precision. Even more, it was an exem…

Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January Sixth Attack on…

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United States House of Representatives and United States House Of Representatives


This report will provide greater detail about the multi-step effort devised and driven by Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election and blo…

U.S. Marine Operations In Korea 1950-1953, Volume 4: The East-Central Front

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Lynn Montross, Norman W. Hicks and Hubard D. Kuokka


This is the fourth in a series of five volumes dealing with the operations of United States Marines in Korea during the period 2 August 1950…

U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Volume 3: The Chosin Reservoir Camp…

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Lynn Montross


“Where do we go from here?” would hardly have been an oversimplified summary of the questions confronting UN leaders when it became apparent…

American Fairy Tales

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L. Frank Baum


This collection of fantasy stories was originally serialized in regional newspapers, prior to being published as a complete volume. The stor…

Tarzan and the Ant Men

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Edgar Rice Burroughs


Lord Greystoke, Tarzan of the Apes, is embroiled in thrilling adventures among the tiny, warlike Minunians. (Summary by Matthew Reece)

The Autobiography of Methuselah

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John Kendrick Bangs


A satirical look at early biblical events from the point of view of someone who was there to witness most of them: the oldest man in recorde…