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The Story of Sitka

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Clarence Leroy Andrews


The Author recounts life in the great northwest in Sitka, Alaska "Sitka of the Russians" a century ago with insights into Sitka's …

Partial Portraits

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Henry James


In this book, writer Henry James gives wonderful and probing insights into the lives and works of many famous and interesting writers, some …

The Sworn Brothers, A Tale of the Early Days of Iceland

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Gunnar Gunnarsson


This is the story of the close but sometimes contentious relationship of two young Icelandic kinsman who elect to undergo the solemn ceremon…

The Beautiful Lady

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Booth Tarkington


Raffaele Ansolini is down on his luck: living in Paris is not quite so amazing if there are no funds to finance the amusement. So Ansolini h…

Hypatia

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John Toland


Hypatia is John Toland's biography of the one he calls "a most beautiful, most vertuous, most learned, and every way accomplish’d lady,…

The History of Rome, volume 3

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Titus Livius


The History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) is a history of ancient Rome, written in Latin by Livy (Titus Livius) between 27 and 9 BC, covering th…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 7

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Giorgio Vasari


The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…

The Fanatics

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Paul Laurence Dunbar


This is a story about a town in Ohio during the civil war. The town is divided by ideology, but can they be united by love and respect? - Su…

The History of Rome, volume 4

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Titus Livius


The History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) is a history of ancient Rome, written in Latin by Livy (Titus Livius) between 27 and 9 BC, covering th…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 8

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Giorgio Vasari


The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…

The Martian

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George Du Maurier


The Martian, by George du Maurier, is a largely autobiographical novel published in 1898 and the author's third. It describes the life of Ba…

A Bouleversement

In A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia

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Amanda Minnie Douglas


The early youth of an old town has a certain simplicity like the youth of human life. Its struggles, its romance, its unfolding come down th…

Part 1, Chapter V, The Second Meeting

In An Iceland Fisherman

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Pierre Loti


'An Iceland Fisherman' is an 1886 romance by the celebrated - he was elected to the French Academy in May, 1891 - novelist and naval officer…