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Pope Adrian IV; An Historical Sketch

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Richard Raby


Pope Adrian IV (c. 1100-1159, pope 1154-1159) was the only English pope. Written by a Catholic in 1849, this biography of the pope appeare…

Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi

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William C. Everhart


In the American Civil War, the Vicksburg campaign (December 1862-July 1863) was a pivotal victory for the Union under the generalship of Uly…

Recollections of Oscar Wilde

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Franz Blei


This 1906 collection of memories of Oscar Wilde is by friends. Wilde said that his genius was his life; only his talent was in his works. (S…

Purity of Heart

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William Booth


William Booth, who co-founded The Salvation Army with his wife Catherine in 1865, wrote several books on the subject of holiness. Purity of …

H.M.S. Pinafore; Or, The Lass That Loved A Sailor

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W. S. Gilbert


In this recording, one person reads the entire play, all parts, including the stage directions. Even without the support of Arthur Sullivan…

William The Conqueror

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Richmal Crompton


William is at it again. The world’s most chaos-creating and confident eleven year old boy. Thirteen more humorous stories in this 1926 col…

Clergymen Of The Church Of England

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Anthony Trollope


This 1866 book was published in a time of great change in the Church of England. Trollope began as a High Church adherent and then worked h…

The Crimson Gardenia And Other Tales Of Adventure

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Rex Beach


Published in 1916, this book collects eleven stories originally published in several different magazines. Beach’s adventure stories were im…

Mendelssohn And Certain Masterworks

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Herbert Francis Peyser


In the compass of the present pamphlet it is impossible to give more than a cursory survey of Mendelssohn’s happy but extraordinarily crowde…

Trivia (1917) And More Trivia (1921)

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Logan Pearsall Smith


Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) was an American-born British essayist who was known for his epigrams and aphorisms, often humorous. This re…

Elsie And The Child; A Tale Of Riceyman Steps And Other Stories

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Arnold Bennett


Thirteen short stories (1924) by a master story teller of the early twentieth century. His writings, fiction and nonfiction, were popular wi…

Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance

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Ford Madox Ford


Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though…

Robert Schumann, Tone Poet Prophet And Critic

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Herbert Francis Peyser


[This is] the sketchiest outline of Robert Schumann’s short life but amazingly rich achievement. Together with Haydn and Schubert he was, pe…

The Best Church Hymns

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Louis Fitzgerald Benson


This 1898 book is the result of a survey of 107 hymn-books. The thirty-two hymns are ranked in order of popularity. The texts in this reco…

The Prelude To Adventure

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Hugh Walpole


Olva Dune is a Cambridge undergraduate who commits a murder and at that moment feels the presence of God. In a tour de force Walpole noveliz…

Idle Hours In A Library

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William Henry Hudson


“[these essays on Shakespeare, Pepys, Restoration novels, and bohemianism]—the results of many hours of quiet but rather aimless browsing am…

Infamous Day: Marines At Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941

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Robert James Cressman and Robert J. Cressman


Historical overview and personal reminiscences published in 1992. Pearl Harbor attack 7 December 1941. Part of U.S. Government U.S. Marine…

Sister Dolorosa

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James Lane Allen


A Carmelite convent in Kentucky in the nineteenth century. A beautiful immature nun. A handsome immature visitor. A chance meeting. Whither?…

The Dogs Of Boytown

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Walter Alden Dyer


This collection of stories about dogs and the people they own was published in 1918. The story proceeds leisurely with much information abou…

A Versailles Christmas-Tide

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Mary Stuart Boyd


The Boy has fallen ill with scarlet fever while at school in France. His parents rush to his side. A touching memoir. - Summary by david w…

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