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In Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous

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Sarah Knowles Bolton


These characters have been chosen from various countries and from varied professions, that the youth who read this book may see that poverty…

Famous American Statesmen

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Sarah Knowles Bolton


A sketch of the lives of some of America's early Statesmen: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Andr…

Yollop

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George Barr Mccutcheon


Mr. Crittenden Yollop makes friends with the man who came to burglarize his home and sets out to help him return to where he really wants to…

The Road

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Jack London


Jack London credited his skill of story-telling to the days he spent as a hobo learning to fabricate tales to get meals from sympathetic str…

Jesse James, My Father

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Jesse James, Jr.


A biography of Jesse James as told by his son, Jesse James, Jr. We are treated to inside tales of Jesse's childhood and home life; what dro…

Selected Works of E. Boyd Smith

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E. Boyd Smith


A sampling of the children's books written and illustrated by E. Boyd Smith. The first story is Mr. Smith's version of the Story of Noah's …

The Curse of Capistrano

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Johnston McCulley and Johnston Mcculley


The Curse of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley is the first work to feature the fictional character Zorro (zorro is the Spanish word for fox).…

A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Su…

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Joseph Plumb Martin


Joining the Continental Army as a teenager, Joseph Plumb Martin spent the next eight years fighting in the Revolutionary War as an enlisted …

Robin Hood

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J. Walker McSpadden


Robin Hood is a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and gi…

The Jacket

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Jack London


A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Priso…

Johnny Reb and Billy Yank

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Alexander Hunter


Johnny Reb & Billy Yank is an epic novel first published in 1905 by Alexander Hunter, a soldier who served in Confederate General Robert…

The Life of Honorable William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill The Famous Hunter,…

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William Frederick Cody


The life and adventures of Honorable William F. Cody--Buffalo Bill--as told by himself, make up a narrative which reads more like romance th…

Chapter 95-99

In The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 3

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Laurence Sterne


This is volume 3 of 4.The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne.…

Dialogue Between Scipio and Berganza, Dogs of the Hospital of the Resurrection …

In The Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Walter K. Kelly, Translator) and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


Originally compiled by Cervantes himself in 1613 as a collection of "exemplary" stories, this translated version from 1881 brings …

17 - Appendix Part 1

In A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison

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James E. Seaver


Mrs. Mary Jemison was taken by the Indians, in the year 1755, when only about twelve years of age, and has continued to reside amongst them …

05 - Book 1, September Entries

In The Sorrows of Young Werther

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


The Sorrows of Young Werther (German, Die Leiden des jungen Werther, originally published as Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is an epistolar…