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The Natural History of Selborne

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Gilbert White


The Reverend Gilbert White was the curate of the village of Selborne, a village in Hampshire, from 1784 to his death in 1793, living most of…

Highways and Byways in Sussex

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E. V. Lucas


A very personal and opinionated wander through the Sussex of around 1900, illustrated with anecdotes, literary and poetic quotations, graves…

Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (version 2)

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Bliss Carman


Sappho lived six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric poetry was peculiarly esteemed and cultivated at the centres of Greek life.…

Ketchup

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A. W. Bitting


The Bittings have written a number of books on canning and home preparation of food. This short volume includes a brief description of the p…

London Labour and the London Poor Volume I

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Henry Mayhew


Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories

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H. G. Wells


A collection of Wells' short stories, with a short introductory essay by the author- "Essentially it is a miscellany of inventions, man…

A Text-book of Assaying

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Cornelius Beringer and Cornelius Beringerandjohn Jacob Beringer


This is a formal but relaxed text covering assaying techniques for most of the substances which are mined. As the authors say: "At firs…

Phallic Worship

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Hargrave Jennings


A fairly scholarly, short survey of religious sexual symbols and practices from ancient times to the near-present, and within various countr…

On the Preparations of the Indian Hemp

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William Brooke O'Shaughnessy


The author investigated the uses of cannabis resin as an anticonvulsant and relaxant in cases of tetanus, cholera, and infantile convulsions…

Dissertation on Oriental Gardening

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William Chambers


A little essay on the Chinese style of gardening, as opposed to the continental style, which the author finds too formal with too many strai…

The Rookeries of London

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Thomas Beames


Rev. Thomas Beames (1815 – 1864) was a preacher at St. James, Westminster in London. He compiled his own eye-witness accounts of the most no…

Neighbourhood – A Year’s Life in and About an English Village (version 2)

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Tickner Edwardes


Tickner Edwardes (properly Edward Tickner Edwardes) served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during WWI and later became the vicar of the West…

Underground London

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John Hollingshead


From the Preface: "This book contains an account, more or less readable, of most things belonging to "Underground London", pa…

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In Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit From St. Nicholas)

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moore_c and Clement Clarke Moore


LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different readings of Clement C. Moore's 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, a weekly poetry project. (Summ…

11 - Waking and 12 - Which Dreamed it?

In Through the Looking-Glass

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Lewis Carroll


Through the Looking Glass, the sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was written in 1872 and it finds Alice in a land …

The War of the Worlds - Book 2 - Chapter 05

In The War of the Worlds

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H. G. Wells


H. G. Wells wrote The War of the Worlds in 1898, when there was much speculation about life on the planet Mars. The book is considered to be…

The Repairer of Reputations - Part One

In The King in Yellow (part 1)

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Robert W. Chambers


Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) studied art in Paris in the late 80's and early 90's, where his work was displayed at the Salon. However, sho…

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