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Chapter XIX, The Return from the Pole, Part Two

In The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott; Volume 1 of 'Scott's Last Expedition' (Ver…

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Robert Falcon Scott


Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey to the Antarctic Pole in 1911 is part triumph, part tragedy – but also a mythic adventure story which has …

Germany

In 1001 Questions and Answers on General History

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Benjamin Hathaway


A book for students of history to test their knowledge and to direct their studies. As the title tells us, this is a book of 1001 questions,…

On an Empty House

In On Everything

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Hilaire Belloc


Hillaire Belloc of French by birth, British by naturalization was a diverse and prolific writer of the early 20th century. His writing runs…

Records 20, 21

In We (Version 2)

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Yevgeny Zamyatin


So subversive, the Soviet Union banned it.D-503 is a single note in the harmonious choir of the United State, a totalitarian nation ruled by…

Chapter 8

In Original Stories from Real Life

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Mary Wollstonecraft


Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the early promoters of gender equality long before other crusaders took up the cause. She is perhaps best kno…

Physics and Metaphysics

In The Problem of Truth

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Herbert Wildon Carr


A problem of philosophy is completely different from a problem of science. In science we accept our subject-matter as it is presented in una…

The Haunted Man

In Stories Weird and Wonderful

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Joyce Emmerson Muddock


A collection of tales written by J.E. Muddock. All these stories are dark in atmosphere and subject matter.

Driver Robert Brown

In The Lieutenant and Others

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Sapper


This is a volume of short stories by Herman Cyril McNeile, better known by his pseudonym "Sapper", who is well-known until today f…

Chapter II - Calculating Machines

In The Romance of Modern Mechanism

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Archibald Williams


In 1910, when this book was published, the advancement of modern mechanism was still moving at a rapid pace. It must have seemed like very d…

Fechter

In Among the Great Masters of the Drama

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Walter Rowlands


In "Among the great masters of the drama; scenes in the lives of famous actors; thirty-two reproductions of famous pictures with text&q…

Chapter 7 (excerpt) from "The Churchwardens’ Accounts – Book No: 1 From 1573 to…

In Insomnia Collection Vol. 005

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Charles Candler


Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. Ho…

Hardly Saved

In Stories of the Lifeboat

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Frank Mundell


There's fury in the tempest,And there's madness in the waves;The lightning snake coils round the foam,The headlong thunder raves;Yet a boat …

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