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Amedeide

Gabriello Chiabrera

Amedeide is a collection of poems written by Gabriello Chiabrera, an Italian poet, sometimes called the Italian Pindar. Chiabrera was of patrician descent, and was born at Savona, a little town i..

Anne Bradstreet and Her Time

Helen Campbell

Anne Bradstreet and Her Time is a biographical work by Helen Campbell, an American author, editor, social and industrial reformer, as well as a pioneer in the field of home economics. Her Househo..

Ben-Hur - A tale of the Christ

Lew Wallace

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published by Harper and Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century". It became..

No Orchids for Miss Blandish

James Hadley Chase

No Orchids For Miss Blandish is a 1939 crime novel by the British writer James Hadley Chase. The novel was influenced by the American crime writer James M. Cain and the stories in the pulp magazine Bl..

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

John Muir

The only fire for the whole house was the kitchen stove, with a fire box about eighteen inches long and eight inches wide and deep,- scant space for three or four small sticks, around which in hard ze..

Elsie's Motherhood

Martha Finley

Elsie's Motherhood is a juvenile fiction novel written by Martha Finley, an American teacher and author of numerous works for children, the best known being the 28-volume Elsie Dinsmore series which w..

Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical

C. L. Hunter

Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical Illustrating Principally the Revolutionary Period of Mecklenburg, Rowan, Lincoln and Adjoining Counties, Accompanied with Miscellaneous ..

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Stephen Leacock

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literat..