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My Hunt After 'The Captain'

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


Holmes describes his frantic search through Civil War torn landscapes for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court Justice. Originally publ…

Wounds In The Rain; War Stories

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Stephen Crane


Eleven stories of war by the author of The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane was an American author. He is recognized by modern critics …

Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples…

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Giovanni Battista Belzoni


Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778 – 1823) was an Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. He is known for his remo…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Herbert Francis Peyser


Mozart’s earthly career was so poignantly short yet so filled with incalculable achievement that the author of this booklet finds himself co…

The Dwarf's Chamber And Other Stories

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Fergus Hume


Short Stories by Fergus Hume, a prolific English novelist. - Summary by Wikipedia

Myths And Legends Of The Great Plains (version 2)

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Katharine Berry Judson


Here, amidst the vast sweep of the plains which stretch away to the horizon on every side, boundless, limitless, endless, lived the plains I…

Among Typhoons And Pirate Craft

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Lindsay Anderson


Anderson served as third officer aboard the Eamont. Eamont was an opium clipper built in Cowes. Eamont was involved in the opening of Japan …

Tales Of The Trail; Short Stories Of Western Life

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Henry Inman


This 1898 collection of thirteen previously published articles exhibits the acute perception of one of the most popular writers of the late …

Sherman’s Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs

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William Tecumseh Sherman


This LibriVox recording comprises three chapters from American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs. The chapters deal with…

Tenting To-Night; A Chronicle Of Sport And Adventure In Glacier Park And The Ca…

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


This is the second of two travelogues published by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958). Both deal with Glacier National Park, and this book a…

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

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Edward Everett Hale


This is a collection of ten Christmas Stories, some of which have been published before. I have added a little essay, written on the occasio…

A Soldier Of The Legion;An Englishman's Adventures Under The French Flag in Alg…

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George Manington


An educated gentleman, Mr Manington has given an insight into the unusual experiences of an Englishman in the French Foreign Legion, such as…

Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of The Universe: Introduction

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Alexander Von Humboldt


Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of romantic phi…

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together With Death's Duel

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John Donne


Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English theologian and writer John Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in Lond…

Youth and the Bright Medusa, and The Troll Garden

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Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather


Youth And The Bright Medusa comprises eight short stories published in 1920. Four of them (The Sculptor’s Funeral; A Death In The Desert; A …

The Boy Scout And Other Stories For Boys

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Richard Harding Davis


RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, as a friend and fellow author has written of him, was “youth incarnate,” and there is probably nothing that he wrote …

Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes

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Katharine Berry Judson


It is a loss to American literature that so much of the legendary history of these Indian tribes has gone, beyond hope of recovery. Exquisit…

The Loot Of Cities

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Arnold Bennett


Published in 1917, this is a collection of a novella and seven short stories by one of the cleverest authors of the early twentieth century.…

John Sherman and Dhoya

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William Butler Yeats


In 1891, Yeats published "John Sherman", a novella, and "Dhoya", a Celtic mythologic story. Ganconagh, Yeats’s nom de pl…

Jeremy

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Hugh Walpole


With affectionate humor, Mr. Walpole tells the story of Jeremy and his two sisters, Helen and Mary Cole, who grow up in Polchester, a quiet …

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