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  • THE SECRETS OF BLACK ARTS!
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    THE SECRETS OF BLACK ARTS!
    ANONYMOUS
    Excerpt: "Perhaps the title of this Book—“The Devil’s Legacy to Earth Mortals” may at first seem somewhat strange; they will pause as they do at a Witches Prayer, and wonder whether they had best look into it or no, lest they should really raise the Devil by reading what he has bequeathed to mankind. It is a question, not yet determined by the learned, whether the word Devil be...

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  • THE GERMAN SPY SYSTEM FROM WITHIN
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    THE GERMAN SPY SYSTEM FROM WITHIN
    ANONYMOUS INTR. WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    Excerpt: "The amazing ramifications of the German spy system in England are, unfortunately, not even today fully realised by the British public, or admitted by the Government. In face of the hard facts contained in this book, in face of the serious statements of Members in the House of Commons, and in face of what the public are themselves daily reporting to the "authorities," ...

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  • THE HORRORS OF THE NEGRO SLAVERY EXISTING IN OUR WEST INDIAN ISLANDS
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    THE HORRORS OF THE NEGRO SLAVERY EXISTING IN OUR WEST INDIAN ISLANDS
    ANONYMOUS
    The Horrors of the Negro Slavery Existing in Our West Indian Islands is a pamphlet written anonymously in the 18th century. The pamphlet is a scathing indictment of the slave trade and the treatment of enslaved people in the West Indian colonies of Great Britain. The pamphlet describes in detail the brutal conditions under which enslaved people were forced to live and work. It ...

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  • GAY LIFE IN PARIS HOW LIFE IS ENJOYED BY THE PEOPLE OF THAT GREAT METROPOLIS
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    GAY LIFE IN PARIS HOW LIFE IS ENJOYED BY THE PEOPLE OF THAT GREAT METROPOLIS
    ANONYMOUS
    Gay Life in Paris is a book written by Anonymous, which provides an overview of the life and culture of Paris in the 19th century. The author details the various aspects of Parisian life, such as the nightlife, dining, fashion, and social norms of the time. The book provides a window into the world of Paris in the late 1800s, and is likely to be of interest to anyone interested...

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  • NUTS TO CRACK A GALAXY OF PUZZLES, RIDDLES, CONUNDRUMS ETC.
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    NUTS TO CRACK A GALAXY OF PUZZLES, RIDDLES, CONUNDRUMS ETC.
    ANONYMOUS
    Excerpt: “1. Why is ambition like a weathercock? Because it is a vain and glittering thing to aspire (a-spire). 2. What preserve would an egg name if it could speak? Ma-me-laid (Marmelade). 3. What is the difference between a schoolmaster and an engine driver? One trains the mind, the other minds the train. 4. Why are railways like laundresses? Because they have “ironed” the wo...

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  • SEVEN YEARS IN VIENNA (AUGUST, 1907 - AUGUST, 1914), A RECORD OF INTRIGUE
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    SEVEN YEARS IN VIENNA (AUGUST, 1907 - AUGUST, 1914), A RECORD OF INTRIGUE
    ANONYMOUS
    Excerpt: “It was mid-August in 1907. King Edward of England, who had been undergoing a “cure” at Marienbad, was expected at Ischl, where the Austrian Court was in residence. The whole place was hung with flags that were put up at the last moment, as the “Gem of the Salzkammergut,” as Ischl is often called, is one of the wettest spots in the country. The local trains brought lar...

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  • TWENTY TALES BY TWENTY WOMEN, FROM REAL LIFE IN CHICAGO
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    TWENTY TALES BY TWENTY WOMEN, FROM REAL LIFE IN CHICAGO
    ANONYMOUS
    Excerpt: “Without apology this book goes forth. If it is productive of some good, it will have fulfilled its mission. In presenting this work it is with a feeling of restitution. If I have digressed from, or stormed the barricaded citadel of formal literature, I have done so without hesitation, simply complying with an obeisance to civility toward my fellow men. I have pictured...

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  • THE PIKE'S PEAK RUSH, OR, TERRY IN THE NEW GOLD FIELDS
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    THE PIKE'S PEAK RUSH, OR, TERRY IN THE NEW GOLD FIELDS
    ANONYMOUS
    Excerpt: “"Twenty-five thousand people—and more on the way! Think of that!" exclaimed Mr. Richards, Terry's father. It was an evening in early April, 1859, and spring had come to the Richards ranch, up the Valley of the Big Blue, Kansas Territory. Excitement had come, too, for Harry (Harry Revere, that is, the clever, boyish Virginia school-teacher who was a regular member of t...

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  • BODY-SNATCHING
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    BODY-SNATCHING
    ANONYMOUS
    Excerpt: "Every one desires to live as long as he can. Every one values health “above all gold and treasure.” Every one knows that, as far as his own individual good is concerned, protracted life and a frame of body sound and strong, free from the thousand pains which flesh is heir to, are unspeakably more important than all other objects, because life and health must be secure...

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  • MY BIRD AND MY DOG, A TALE FOR YOUTH
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    MY BIRD AND MY DOG, A TALE FOR YOUTH
    ANONYMOUS
    Excerpt: "On the following evening, when the family were, as usual, assembled together in the parlour, Mr. Fitzallan began his promised tale as follows: — “About twelve years ago, there was known at Boston, in North America, a boy, who, from the vagrant life he led, was distinguished by the degrading appellation of Dirty Barnaby. He had been maintained by the parish, but was so...

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  • MY SECRET SERVICE, BY THE MAN WHO DINED WITH THE KAISER
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    MY SECRET SERVICE, BY THE MAN WHO DINED WITH THE KAISER
    ANONYMOUS
    What would happen if a man went undercover into enemy territory during World War One? One man ventured to find out. The book’s unnamed narrator, a Daily Mail journalist, begins his journey posing as a steel worker in Essen, before being ‘dismissed with ignominy’ and moving on to Constantinople. The journalist, who at the beginning of the book, proclaims ‘I am not a spy’, undert...

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  • ART OF LOVE-MAKING
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    ART OF LOVE-MAKING
    ANONYMOUS
    Excerpt: “Many young people, particularly of the male kind, imagine themselves in love when in truth they are not. Their supposed passion is but a fancy of the moment. An ardent young man is introduced to a pretty or interesting girl, and after a quarter of an hour’s conversation is (in his own opinion) over head and ears in love with her. If he is a sensible man he will not be...

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  • SMUGGLING & SMUGGLERS IN SUSSEX
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    SMUGGLING & SMUGGLERS IN SUSSEX
    ANONYMOUS
    Excerpt: "In September, 1747, one John Diamond, otherwise Dymar, agreed with a number of smugglers to go over to the Island of Guernsey, to smuggle tea, where, having purchased a considerable quantity, on their return in a cutter, were taken by one Capt. Johnson, who carried the vessel and tea to the port of Poole, and lodged the tea in the Custom-house there. The smugglers bei...

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  • WEST PORT MURDERS
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    WEST PORT MURDERS
    ANONYMOUS
    Excerpt: "We have heard a great deal of late concerning “the march of intellect” for which the present age is supposed to be distinguished; and the phrase has been rung in our ears till it has nauseated us by its repetition, and become almost a proverbial expression of derision. But we fear that, with all its pretended illumination, the present age must be characterized by some...

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  • CHARLES PEACE, OR THE ADVENTURES OF A NOTORIOUS BURGLAR
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    CHARLES PEACE, OR THE ADVENTURES OF A NOTORIOUS BURGLAR
    ANONYMOUS
    Charles Peace (14 May 1832 – 25 February 1879) was an English burglar and murderer, who embarked on a life of crime after being maimed in an industrial accident as a boy. After killing a policeman in Manchester, he fled to his native Sheffield, where he became obsessed with his neighbour's wife, eventually shooting her husband dead. Settling in London, he carried out multiple b...

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  • BEHIND THE SCENES IN A HOTEL BY THE CONSUMER'S LEAGUE OF NEW YORK
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    BEHIND THE SCENES IN A HOTEL BY THE CONSUMER'S LEAGUE OF NEW YORK
    ANONYMOUS
    Excerpt: "The modern hotel industry, claimed by the 35th Convention of the New York Hotel Association to be the fifth largest industry in the United States, is of comparatively recent growth. It is true that from the earliest times there have been inns and small hostels for the accommodation of the wayfarer. But this accommodation was the simple provision of board and lodging. ...

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  • PAMELA CENSURED
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    PAMELA CENSURED
    ANONYMOUS
    Excerpt: "Novels tend to "inflame the Passions and corrupt the Heart" of the reader because they treat real life with all its sordid concerns: sex, social status, pride, money, and the like. If the novel describes such matters in a realistic fashion, "warm scenes" will inevitably creep into it. As Pamela Censured complains, men are inflamed by the description of a woman's body,...

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  • MY YOUNG DAYS
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    MY YOUNG DAYS
    ANONYMOUS
    Excerpt: ""I want to go home " How many times in my life, I wonder, have these words come rushing up from the very bottom of my heart, tumbling everything out of the way, never listening to reason, never stopping for thought? How many times since that dreary afternoon in the great, big drawing-room at grandmamma's? And, oh dear me what miserable heartache comes before that fear...

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  • MAGIC, PRETENDED MIRACLES, AND REMARKABLE NATURAL PHENOMENA
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    MAGIC, PRETENDED MIRACLES, AND REMARKABLE NATURAL PHENOMENA
    ANONYMOUS
    Excerpt: "The magi formed one of the six tribes into which the nation of the Medes was divided in ancient times. To them was entrusted the special charge of religion; and, as priests, they were superior in education and training to the people in general. Among the Persians, “the lovers of wisdom and the servants of God” were, according to Suidas, called magi. It seems also, tha...

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  • THE ARABIEN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS
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    THE ARABIEN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS
    ANONYMOUS
    One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English-language edition (c. 1706–1721), which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment. The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and schola...

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  • GOOD COUNCELL AGAINST THE PLAGUE BY LEARNED PHISITION
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    GOOD COUNCELL AGAINST THE PLAGUE BY LEARNED PHISITION
    ANONYMOUS
    Excerpt: "Good Councell against the plague. Shewing sundry present preseruatiues for the same, by wholsome fumes, drinks, vomits, and other inward receits: as also, the perfect cure (by implaysture) of any that are therewith infected. Nowe necessary to be obserued of euery Housholder, to auoyde the infection, lately begun in some places of this Cittie. Written by a learned Phis...

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  • CINDERELLA
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    CINDERELLA
    ANONYMOUS
    Cinderella,or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression and triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The protagonist is a young woman living in forsaken circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune. The story of Rhodopis, recounted by the Greek geographer Strabo sometime between arou...

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  • THE ROMANCE OF LUST: A CLASSIC VICTORIAN EROTIC NOVEL
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    THE ROMANCE OF LUST: A CLASSIC VICTORIAN EROTIC NOVEL
    ANONYMOUS ANONYMOUS
    The Romance of Lust, or Early Experiences is a Victorian erotic novel written anonymously in four volumes during the years 1873–1876 and published by William Lazenby. Henry Spencer Ashbee discusses this novel in one of his bibliographies of erotic literature. The novel is told in first person, and the protagonist of the novel is Charlie Roberts. Charlie possesses a large penis,...

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  • THE LADIES DELIGHT
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    THE LADIES DELIGHT
    ANONYMOUS ANONYMOUS
    This brief pamphlet, also called 'The Tree of Life' was published in 1732. It is outrageously scatological but in a truly brilliant way. It is conceivable that some would read it and not realise what the subject of the story was (the male member), with its not too carefully disguised. (Goodreads) ...

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  • MY SECRET LIFE, VOLUMES I TO III
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    MY SECRET LIFE, VOLUMES I TO III
    ANONYMOUS ANONYMOUS
    Excerpt: "I began these memoirs when about twenty-five years old, having from youth kept a diary of some sort, which perhaps from habit made me think of recording my inner and secret life. When I began it, I had scarcely read a baudy book, none of which excepting "Fanny Hill" appeared to me to be truthful, that did, and it does so still; the others telling of recherche eroticis...

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  • THE POWER OF MESMERISM A HIGHLY EROTIC NARRATIVE OF VOLUPTUOUS FACTS AND FANCIES
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    THE POWER OF MESMERISM A HIGHLY EROTIC NARRATIVE OF VOLUPTUOUS FACTS AND FANCIES
    ANONYMOUS ANONYMOUS
    Starring Frank Etheridge, a man who picked up certain skills in Germany that give him power over men and women. He uses this talent as best he can on the outside world, but also works within the family. (Goodreads) ...

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  • THE UPANISHADS
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    THE UPANISHADS
    ANONYMOUS
    'The Upanishads' are early philosophical texts of the Hindu religion. 'The Upanishads' represent the loftiest heights of ancient Indo-Aryan thought and culture and are regarded as direct revelations of God. Because these teachings were usually given in the stillness of some distant retreat, where the noises of the world could not disturb the tranquillity of the contemplative li...

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  • THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING
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    THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING
    ANONYMOUS
    The Cloud of Unknowing draws on the mystical tradition of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Christian Neoplatonism, which focuses on the via negativa road to discovering God as a pure entity, beyond any capacity of mental conception and so without any definitive image or form. This tradition has reputedly inspired generations of mystical searchers from John Scotus Erigena, th...

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  • SCOTTISH PSALTER AND PARAPHRASES
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    SCOTTISH PSALTER AND PARAPHRASES
    ANONYMOUS
    This contains the Scottish Psalter and Scripture Paraphrases, the primary hymnal of the Church of Scotland up through the 19th century. The Church of Scotland is a Presbyterian church, decisively shaped by the Scottish Reformation. ...

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  • THE MARTYR OF THE CATACOMBS
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    THE MARTYR OF THE CATACOMBS
    ANONYMOUS
    The Martyr of the Catacombs chronicles the treatment of early Christians by the Romans. A well written novel with a message. ...

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