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The Logic of Vegetarianism

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Henry Salt


With clear logic and entertaining dialogues, the author presents many reasons for a vegetarian rather than a “flesh-eating” diet, and his ar…

Pierre & Jean

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Guy de Maupassant


This short novel’s titular characters are brothers. An old family friend dies, leaving without explanation his entire fortune to Jean, the y…

Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass


These two articles were reproduced as an e-book by Project Gutenberg in 2008 to supplement "...several articles by Frederick Douglass,…

Yellow Butterflies

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Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews


The title of this historical fiction could as well have been "A Soldier’s Mother" or “An Unknown Soldier”. There are indeed butter…

It Might Have Happened to You

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Coningsby Dawson


This is a frank eyewitness description of the suffering, starvation in particular, that was widely experienced in Central and Eastern Europe…

The Last Entry

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William Clark Russell


This is a sea-faring novel set in 1837. A wealthy former seaman from London and his daughter, who is engaged to be married, set sail on his …

Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness

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Honoré de Balzac


Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness, is an entertaining short novel by Honoré de Balzac, unpublished in his lifetime. Beginni…

The Dark

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Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev


The Dark is a novella about a desperate young man, a “terrorist and nihilist”, trying to avoid arrest by taking refuge in a brothel. The sto…

Take it From Dad

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George Livermore and George G. Livermore


Take It From Dad is a collection of letters written by a father to his son, Ted, at boarding school, away from home for the first time. In e…

Uncle Wiggily's Fortune

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Howard R. Garis


Uncle Wiggily Longears is the main character of a series of children's stories by American author Howard R. Garis. He began writing the stor…

Rudin

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Ivan Turgenev


Rudin is the first and perhaps least known novel by Ivan Turgenev, a famous Russian writer best known for his short stories and the novel Fa…

Eighteen Months' Imprisonment

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Donald Shaw


This is an absorbing memoir of an inmate's experiences and impressions while in a London prison. He describes himself as "a man of educ…

A German Deserter's War Experience

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Anonymoustranslated Byjulius Koettgen


The author of this 1917 narrative, who escaped from Germany and military service after 14 months of fighting in France, did not wish to have…

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass


Frederick Douglass published his highly acclaimed third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, in 1881 and revised it in 1892.…

Doctor Izard

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Anna Katharine Green


The opening scene takes place in a hospital ward where two patients lie, apparently dying, when a man enters and offers a proposition to one…

The Permanent Husband

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky


THE PERMANENT HUSBAND, also published as The Eternal Husband, is a psychological novella by the acclaimed Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky.…

The Bishop's Apron

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W. Somerset Maugham


"Canon Spratte saw himself as he thought others might see him: mediocre, pompous, self-assertive, verbose." Maugham could have add…

The de Bercy Affair

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Louis Tracy


A beautiful French actress with concealed origins and a clandestine involvement with a group of anarchists is brutally murdered in London. C…

Diary of a Suicide

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Wallace E. Baker


“Mr. B. Russell Herts, c/o International Magazine, New York City.Under separate cover I am sending you a record of a young man who is about …

100%: The Story of a Patriot

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Upton Sinclair


"100%: The Story of a Patriot" dramatically recounts the adventures of a poor uneducated young man who lives by his wits and guile…

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