Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664
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Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664. Original narratives of early American history – Series.
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Pathfinder
; or, the Inland sea
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Poems of Experience
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Poems of Experience by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
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The Contest in America
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The Contest in America by John Stuart Mill.
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The Fortune of the Rougons
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Ivanoff
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Ivanoff by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.
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Northern Lights, Complete
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Northern Lights, Complete by Gilbert Parker
Excerpt: ...bright with the brightness of vitality and content. Even the old man at the window of this lonely house, in a great lonely stretch of country, with the cedar hills behind it, had a living force which defied his seventy odd years, though the light in his face was hard and his voice was harder still. Under the shelter of the foothills, cold as the day was, his cattle were feeding in the open, scratching away the thin layer of snow, and browsing on the tender grass underneath. An arctic world in appearance, it had an abounding life which made it friendly and generous.
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau - Complete
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The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau – Complete.
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The Vampyre; a Tale
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The Vampyre was published in the April 1819 issue of New Monthly Magazine and was there erroneously attributed to Lord Byron.
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My Summer in a Garden
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Wake-Robin
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Wake-Robin by John Burroughs.
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The Smoky God
, or, a Voyage to the Inner World
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The Smoky God, or, a voyage to the inner world by Willis George Emerson.
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Zanoni
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Zanoni by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton.
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The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors
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The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors by Bernard Shaw.
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Literature and Life (Complete)
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Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories
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Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories by Cal Stewart.
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Minnesota and Dacotah
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Minnesota and Dacotah by C. C. Andrews.
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The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 - Complete
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The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 - Complete by Azel Ames.
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The Little Duke
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The Little Duke by Charlotte M. Yonge.
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The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne
A Novel
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The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke
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The Soul of the Indian
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Raised among the Sioux until the age of 15, Charles Alexander Eastman (1858–1939) resolved to become a physician in order to be of the greatest service to his people. Upon completing his education at Boston University School of Medicine, he accepted an appointment to a South Dakota Indian reservation, where he was the only doctor available to the victims of the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. With the encouragement of his wife, he further distinguished himself both as a writer and as a uniquely qualified interpreter of Native American ways. His writings offer authentic, sometimes stirring views of a world that has forever changed.
In The Soul of the Indian, Eastman brings to life the rich spirituality and morality of the Native Americans as they existed before contact with missionaries and other whites. This is a rare firsthand expression of native religion, without the filters imposed by translators or anthropologists. Rather than a scientific treatise, Eastman has written a book, "as true as I can make it to my childhood teaching and ancestral ideals, but from the human, not the ethnological standpoint." His discussions of the forms of ceremonial and symbolic worship, the unwritten scriptures, and the spirit world emphasize the universal quality and personal appeal of Native American religion.
The Redheaded Outfield
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The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey
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Light of the Western Stars
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Rhoda Fleming - Complete
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Rhoda Fleming - Complete by George Meredith.
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Renascence and Other Poems
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Renascence and Other Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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The Hunting of the Snark
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But what is a Snark? "Humpty Dumpty's theory, of two meanings packed into one word like a portmanteau, seems to me the right explanation for all."
-Lewis Carroll.
The Land of Little Rain
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“Between the high Sierras south from Yosemite—east and south over a very great assemblage of broken ranges beyond Death Valley, and on illimitably into the Mojave Desert” is the territory that Mary Austin calls the Land of Little Rain. In this classic collection of meditations on the wonders of this region, Austin generously shares “such news of the land, of its trails and what is astir in them, as one lover of it can give to another.” Her vivid writings capture the landscape—from burnt hills to sun-baked mesas—as well as the rich variety of plant and animal life, and the few human beings who inhabit the land, including cattlemen, miners, and Paiute Indians
Amy Foster
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Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad
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Indian Boyhood
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Indian Boyhood (1902) is a recollection of Eastman's earliest childhood memories up to the age of 15. He describes the traditional ways in which the tribe governed itself - a police force, hunting and warrior scouts, and the tribal council. The book includes family and tribal legends of adventure, bravery, and nature that he heard in the lodge of the tribe historian. From the age of 15, he was educated at Dartmouth College, went on to become a medical doctor, acclaimed author, and a spokesman for Native Americans. His long association with the Boy Scouts of America began in 1910 when he helped Ernest Thompson Seton establish the organization.
Life and Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon
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Life and Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon by John Filson.
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Sonnets from the Portuguese
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV
by Étienne-Léon De Lamothe-Langon
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Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Written by herself.
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Selected Stories of Bret Harte
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The Cook's Decameron: A Study in Taste, Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes for Italian Dishes
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The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes by W. G. Waters.
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The Little Lame Prince
by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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The Little Lame Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
The Little Lame Prince is a story for children written by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik and first published in 1875. In the story, the young Prince Dolor, whose legs are paralyzed due to a childhood trauma, is exiled to a tower in a wasteland. As he grows older, a fairy godmother provides a magical traveling cloak so he can see, but not touch, the world. He uses this cloak to go on various adventures, and develops great wisdom and empathy in the process. Finally he becomes a wise and compassionate ruler of his own land. The author's style was to stimulate positive feelings in her young readers so that they would be motivated to adopt socially correct actions in whatever circumstances they encountered. She shows how imagination (mediated by the cloak) can lead to empathy and enlightened morality. However, some critics have found a deeper theme in this story, relating to the restricted lives of respectable middle-class British Victorian women that enforced helplessness.
Gettysburg Address
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Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
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The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé
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Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements. To the early tribes it must also have been the most mysterious; for, while earth and air and water were always in evidence, fire came and went in a manner which must have been quite unaccountable to them. Thus it naturally followed that the custom of deifying all things which the primitive mind was unable to grasp, led in direct line to the fire-worship of later days. That fire could be produced through friction finally came into the knowledge of man, but the early methods entailed much labor. Consequently our ease-loving forebears cast about for a method to "keep the home fires burning" and hit upon the plan of appointing a person in each community who should at all times carry a burning brand. This arrangement had many faults, however, and after a while it was superseded by the expedient of a fire kept continually burning in a building erected for the purpose. The Greeks worshiped at an altar of this kind which they called the Altar of Hestia and which the Romans called the Altar of Vesta. The sacred fire itself was known as Vesta, and its burning was considered a proof of the presence of the goddess. The Persians had such a building in each town and village; and the Egyptians, such a fire in every temple; while the Mexicans, Natches, Peruvians and Mayas kept their "national fires" burning upon great pyramids. Eventually the keeping of such fires became a sacred rite, and the "Eternal Lamps" kept burning in synagogues and in Byzantine and Catholic churches may be a survival of these customs. There is a theory that all architecture, public and private, sacred and profane, began with the erection of sheds to protect the sacred fire. This naturally led men to build for their own protection as well, and thus the family hearth had its genesis. Another theory holds that the keepers of the sacred fires were the first public servants, and that from this small beginning sprang the intricate public service of the present. The worship of the fire itself had been a legacy from the earliest tribes; but it remained for the Rosicrucians and the fire philosophers of the Sixteenth Century under the lead of Paracelsus to establish a concrete religious belief on that basis, finding in the Scriptures what seemed to them ample proof that fire was the symbol of the actual presence of God, as in all cases where He is said to have visited this earth. He came either in a flame of fire, or surrounded with glory, which they conceived to mean the same thing.
Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates
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Lin McLean
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Lin McLean by Owen Wister.
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The City That Was; A Requiem of Old San Francisco
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The City That Was; a requiem of old San Francisco by Will Irwin.
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Messer Marco Polo
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Messer Marco Polo by Donn Byrne.
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The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon
by Sir Samuel White Baker
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The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon by Samuel White Baker.
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Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
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Sword Blades and Poppy Seed by Amy Lowell.
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Haydn
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Haydn by J. Cuthbert Hadden
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The Georgics
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The Georgics by Virgil
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