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Three Times and Out

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Nellie Mcclung

The true story of M. C. Simmons, a Canadian soldier captured by the German Army during the early days of World War I. We read of his sixteen…

Samuel the Seeker

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Upton Sinclair

What would happen to you if you tried to make your way in the world believing all the clear, simple things you had ever been taught growing …

A Preface to Politics

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Walter Lippmann

This is the first book in the bibliography of Walter Lippmann, written three years after emerging from Harvard where he studied under the pr…

In Times Like These

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Nellie Mcclung

"Believing that the woman's claim to a common humanity is not an unreasonable one, and that the successful issue of such claim rests pr…

Recollections of a Busy Life

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William Forwood

Liverpool in the second half of the 19th century was burgeoning with rich merchants and swollen with poor immigrants. It was known variously…

Henry Ward Beecher

In Hidden Treasures

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Harry A. Lewis

"Some succeed while others fail. This is a recognized fact; yet history tells us that seven-tenths of our most successful men began lif…

Some Facts About the National Game, from a Ball Player's Career

In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 028

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Adrian C. Anson

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…

03 - How Did He Begin?

In How to Succeed

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Orison Swett Marden

In this volume, Orison Swett Marden explains the road to success in simple terms for the benefit of anyone, who wishes to follow in his foot…

29 - Literary Friends and Business Companions

In The Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor

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Elizabeth Louisa Gebhard

John Jacob Astor was pre-eminently the opener of new paths, a breaker of trails. From his first tramp alone through the Black Forest of Bade…

Character of the Problem

In Shakespeare Identified

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J. Thomas Looney

That one who is not a recognized authority or an expert in literature should attempt the solution of a problem which has so far baffled spec…