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  • CHILDREN OF THE LENS
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    CHILDREN OF THE LENS
    E. E. "DOC" SMITH
    Book 6 of the Lensman series. Galactic Co-ordinator Kimball Kinnison finished his second cup of Tellurian coffee, got up from the breakfast table, and prowled about in black abstraction. Twenty-odd years had changed him but little. He weighed the same, or a few pounds less; although a little of his mass had shifted downward from his mighty chest and shoulders. His hair was stil...

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  • THE VORTEX BLASTER DUN
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    THE VORTEX BLASTER DUN
    E. E. "DOC" SMITH
    Neal "Storm" Cloud failed his Lensman exam, But life has a strange way of making heroes of even those who sometimes fail. Cloud's family is tragically killed when a misguided attempt to blow out a vortex lands one of the fragments right on his house. Devastated by the loss of his family, Cloud takes a leave of absence from the Radiation Lab where he works studying the vortices....

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  • THE SHORT STORIES OF LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY 1896-1901
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    THE SHORT STORIES OF LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY 1896-1901
    LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
    Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and Canada on the world literary map. Best known for her "Anne of Green Gables" books, she was also a prolific writer of short stories and poetry. She published some 500 short stories and poe...

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  • LETTERS FROM MY WINDMILL
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    LETTERS FROM MY WINDMILL
    ALPHONSE DAUDET
    The stories are all told by the author in the first person, typically addressing a Parisian reader. The author, having relocated his home from Paris, recounts short bucolic tales about his new life in Provence as well as his trips to Corsica and French Algeria. Considered to be light-hearted, and often a bit tongue-in-cheek, the stories vary from day-to-day events in southern F...

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  • LADY SUSAN
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    LADY SUSAN
    JANE AUSTEN
    Lady Susan is a selfish, attractive woman, who tries to trap the best possible husband while maintaining a relationship with a married man. She subverts all the standards of the romantic novel: she has an active role, she's not only beautiful but intelligent and witty, and her suitors are significantly younger than she is. Although the ending includes a traditional reward for ...

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  • KIM
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    KIM
    RUDYARD KIPLING
    The story unfolds against the backdrop of The Great Game, the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. It is set after the Second Afghan War which ended in 1881, but before the Third. The novel is notable for its detailed portrait of the people, culture, and varied religions of India. The book presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, rel...

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  • KILMENY OF THE ORCHARD
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    KILMENY OF THE ORCHARD
    LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
    "A young man named Eric Marshall goes to Prince Edward Island to teach, and meets a mute girl that has perfect hearing named Kilmeny. He visits her for a long time until he falls in love with her. When he proposes she rejects him, even though she loves him in return. Meanwhile, Eric's good friend David who is a renowned throat doctor, comes to the island and visits Eric. He exa...

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  • JOHN BARLEYCORN
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    JOHN BARLEYCORN
    JACK LONDON
    John Barleycorn is an autobiographical novel by Jack London dealing with his enjoyment of and struggles with alcoholism. It was published in 1913. The title is taken from the British folksong "John Barleycorn". ...

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  • JILL THE RECKLESS
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    JILL THE RECKLESS
    P. G. WODEHOUSE
    The heroine here, Jill Mariner, is a young woman from the lower end of the upper class. We follow her through financial disaster, a broken engagement, an awkward stay with some grasping relatives, employment as a chorus girl, and of course, the finding of true love. ...

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  • IN THE REIGN OF TERROR
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    IN THE REIGN OF TERROR
    G. A. HENTY
    Harry Sandwith, a sixteen-year-old English boy, is sent to live in France with the Marquis de St. Caux, a friend of a French nobleman Harry's father once served. The marquis is impressed with the English system of schooling and believes that his two sons, Ernest and Jules, will benefit from the influence and friendship of an independent and manly English boy. ...

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  • IN THE DAYS OF QUEEN VICTORIA
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    IN THE DAYS OF QUEEN VICTORIA
    EVA MARCH TAPPAN
    In The Days of Queen Victoria is the story of Queen Victoria, the woman who became queen at eighteen and for nearly 64 years wore the crown of Great Britain. Eva March Tappan was a teacher and American author born in Blackstone, Massachusetts, she graduated from Vassar College in 1875 receiving graduate degrees in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. ...

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  • ICARUS OR THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE
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    ICARUS OR THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    Mr. Haldane's Daedalus has set forth an attractive picture of the future as it may become through the use of scientific discoveries to promote human happiness. Much as I should like to agree with his forecast, a long experience of statesmen and governments has made me somewhat sceptical. I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups, r...

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  • HOWARD PYLE'S BOOK OF PIRATES
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    HOWARD PYLE'S BOOK OF PIRATES
    HOWARD PYLE
    Pirates, Buccaneers, Marooners, those cruel but picturesque sea wolves who once infested the Spanish Main, all live in present-day conceptions in great degree as drawn by the pen and pencil of Howard Pyle. Join the adventure on the high seas as brave men fight pirates and sale into the unknown. ...

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  • HUMAN NATURE AND OTHER SERMONS
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    HUMAN NATURE AND OTHER SERMONS
    JOSEPH BUTLER
    Joseph Butler was an English bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher. He was born in Wantage in the English county of Berkshire. He is known, among other things, for his critique of Thomas Hobbes's egoism and John Locke's theory of personal identity. During his life and after his death, Butler influenced many philosophers, including David Hume, Thomas Reid, and Adam Smit...

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  • HUMAN NATURE
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    HUMAN NATURE
    ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
    Collected here are five short essays, Human Nature, Government, Free-will and Fatalism, Character, Moral Instinct, and, Ethical Reflections, by the world renowned philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. ...

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  • THE OLD MARTIANS
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    THE OLD MARTIANS
    ROG PHILLIPS
    They opened the ruins to tourists at a dollar a head but they reckoned without The OLD MARTIANS. The man with the pith helmet had his back toward me. Hunched forward, he was screaming at the girl in the lens of his camera. “Don't just stand there, Dotty! Move! Do something! Back up toward that column with inscriptions on it....” ...

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  • HARRIET TUBMAN, THE MOSES OF HER PEOPLE
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    HARRIET TUBMAN, THE MOSES OF HER PEOPLE
    SARAH H. BRADFORD
    After reaching Philadelphia, Tubman began thinking of her family. "I was a stranger in a strange land," she said later. "My father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were in Maryland. But I was free, and they should be free." For 11 years Tubman returned again and again to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, rescuing some 70 slaves in 13 expeditions, including her th...

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  • HAVE WE NO RIGHTS
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    HAVE WE NO RIGHTS
    MABEL RUTH WILLIAMSON
    Throughout this interesting and informative book, Williamson shows the difference between suffering hardships and suffering the infringement of one's rights. She says that every truly consecrated Christian must be willing to give up the right to the normal comforts of life, to physical health and safety, to the privacy of business, and to time, friends, romance, family, and hom...

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  • HOSPITAL SKETCHES
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    HOSPITAL SKETCHES
    LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
    Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women. In the mid-1860s, Alcott wrote passionate, fiery novels and sensational stories. She also produced wholesome stories for children, and after their positive reception, she did not generally return to creating works for adults. Alcott continued to write until her death. ...

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  • HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES
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    HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES
    JACOB A. RIIS
    During the 1890s many people in upper- and middle-class society were unaware of the dangerous conditions in the slums among poor immigrants. Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant who himself could not originally find much work, hoped to expose the squalor of the 19th-century Lower East Side of Manhattan. After a successful career as a police reporter, he decided to publish a photojour...

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  • THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES
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    THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES
    NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
    The house of the title is a gloomy New England mansion, haunted from its foundation by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft, and sudden death. The current resident, the dignified but desperately poor Hepzibah Pyncheon, opens a shop in a side room to support her brother Clifford, who is about to leave prison after serving thirty years for murder. ...

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  • SWANN'S WAY
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    SWANN'S WAY
    MARCEL PROUST
    Begun in 1909, finished just before Proust's death in 1922, many of the novel's ideas, motifs, and scenes appear in adumbrated form in Proust's unfinished novel, Jean Santeuil, and in his unfinished hybrid of philosophical essay and story, Contre Sainte-Beuve. His novel has had a pervasive influence on twentieth-century literature. ...

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  • THE STORY OF ROLF AND THE VIKING BOW
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    THE STORY OF ROLF AND THE VIKING BOW
    ALLEN FRENCH
    Rolf is the son of Hiarandi the Unlucky. Hiarandi, at the urging of his wife, does an unforgivable thing: he lights a signal fire on a dangerous point of his land, challenging the accepted custom that place lucrative salvage at a higher value than the saving of life. However, the life that is saved that night causes his own death and the unjust outlawing of his son Rolf. This t...

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  • NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND
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    NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    Notes from the Underground is a study of a single character, and a revelation of Dostoyevsky's own deepest beliefs. In this work we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who, disillusioned by the oppression and corruption of the society in which he lives withdraws from that society into the underground. On the surface this is a story of one man's rant against a corrupt, o...

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  • NORTHANGER ABBEY
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    NORTHANGER ABBEY
    JANE AUSTEN
    The story's heroine, seventeen year old Catherine Morland, is invited by her neighbours, the Allens, to accompany them to visit Bath for a number of weeks. While, initially, the excitement of experiencing such a place was dampened by her lack of other acquaintances, she is soon introduced to an intriguing young gentleman named Henry Tilney, though her attention was quickly take...

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  • NORSE STORIES
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    NORSE STORIES
    HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE
    Hamilton Wright Mabie, A.M., L.H.D., LL.D. (1846-1916) was an American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer. At the young age of 16 he passed his college entrance examination, but waited a year before he attended Williams College (1867) and the Columbia Law School (1869). He received honorary degrees from his own alma mater, from Union College, and from Western Reserve and Wa...

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  • PAMELA; OR, VIRTUE REWARDED
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    PAMELA; OR, VIRTUE REWARDED
    SAMUEL RICHARDSON
    Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson. Considered one of the first true English novels. Pamela tells the story of a fifteen-year-old maidservant whose employer, Mr. B, a wealthy landowner, makes unwanted and inappropriate advances towards her after the death of his mother. Pamela strives to reconcile her strong religious training with her desir...

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  • NANA
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    NANA
    EMILE ZOLA
    Nana tells the story of Nana Coupeau's rise from streetwalker to high-class cocotte during the last three years of the French Second Empire. Nana first appears in the end of L'Assommoir (1877), another of Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, in which she is portrayed as the daughter of an abusive drunk; in the end, she is living in the streets and just beginning a life of prostitutio...

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  • MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME
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    MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME
    E. M. BERENS
    Mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient people, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. It was a part of the religion in ancient Greece and is part of religion in modern Greece and around the world, known as Hellenismos. Modern scholars refer to and study...

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  • OUR ISLAND STORY
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    OUR ISLAND STORY
    HENRIETTA ELIZABETH MARSHALL
    Our Island Story is the “history” of England up to Queen Victoria’s Death. Marshall used these stories to tell her children about their homeland, Great Britain. To add to the excitement, she mixed in a bit of myth as well as a few legends. ...

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