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The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I
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James Boswell
Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest English-language biography ever written. It was revolutionary in it…
37 - A Reviewer's Notebook, Part 2
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Heywood Broun
In Seeing Things at Night
This Book is a collection of humorous short stories which describe the comedy in everyday things and situations. (Summary by Carolin)
Dr. Johnson’s Picture Cow
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Edgar A. Guest
In Rhymes of Childhood
Not nursery rhymes, but poems about different scenes of childhood. Poems about Grandpa, Grandma, story time, castor oil, “Wait till your pa …
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II
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James Boswell
Boswell's famous work on the life of his admired friend Johnson, the formidable poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, edito…
Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
This is a volume of selected essays by "the great master of reason" Samuel Johnson. The most famous exerpts from The Rambler, The …
Prologue
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Sherwood Anderson
In The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life In Tales and Poems
“The Triumph of the Egg” is a collection of stories and poems by Sherwood Anderson. Abandoning the interconnected quality of his more famous…
To the Earl of Chesterfield by Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson, Variousandcharles William Eliot and Various And Charles William Eliot
In Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books
Charles W. Eliot, 21st President of Harvard University, edited this volume of prefaces ... authored by a Who's Who of World Literature: Baco…
The Letters
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Maud, and Other Poems
A collection of poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, his first book of poetry after having become poet laureate in 1850. Among the "other po…
A Question
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
In Oak and Ivy
"Oak and Ivy" is Paul Laurence Dunbar's first collection of poetry. He was by far the most successful Black American to write poet…
"Fifty Years," James Weldon Johnson
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Alice Dunbar Nelson
In The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer
Ms. Pinckney says in her "Forward" to this book the following: "It is against this background of the world need that Mrs. Ali…
Suzy
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Watson Parker
In Short Science Fiction Collection 044
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…
General Passavant's Will, Part V
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Grant Allen
In Stories in Black and White
This is a collection of short mystery stories, written in very different styles by eight different authors. - Summary by Carolin
Jordan
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George Herbert
In The Temple
George Herbert was one of the so-called Metaphysical Poets, along with John Donne and Andrew Marvel, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Privat…
The Art Gallery
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Palmer Cox
In Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture
Also known for his "Brownies" books, Canadian humorist Palmer Cox give us a delightful collection of humorous verse and short pros…
Johnson, Alias Crow
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Henry Lawson
In Short Stories in Prose and Verse
Short Stories in Prose and Verse” is Henry Lawson’s first published book (1894); his first published poem appeared in 1887. The volume is a …
The Ribble
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James Hebblethwaite
In The Poems of James Hebblethwaite
James Hebblethwaite (22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921) was an English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman. Hebblethwaite was a …
Suggested by Reading an Article in a Newspaper
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
To those unacquainted with Tennyson's conscientious methods, it may seem strange that a volume of 160 pages is necessary to contain those po…
A COMMERCIAL TRANSACTION
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Owen Davis
In Sketches of Gotham
If you're the sort that gets a thrill from rubbing elbows with shady characters you best leave the introductions to the streetwise Ike Swift…
Selected speeches
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John Caldwell Calhoun
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 07
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…
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