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Meditationes de prima philosophia

René Descartes

The Meditations are a central work of early modern philosophy, and play a crucial role in the conceptual development of basic perspectives and problems in the Western tradition, including substance du..

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08

Robert Kerr

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels is a multi volume edition of popular explorers arranged in systematic order forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation..

A Phantom Lover

Vernon Lee

A Phantom Lover is a supernatural novella by Vernon Lee (pseudonym of Violet Paget) first published in 1886. Set in a Kentish manor house, the story concerns a portrait painter commissioned by a squir..

An Original Belle

Edward Payson Roe

An Original Belle is a love story written during civil war period written by American novelist Edward Payson Roe. Author's Preface:No race of men, scarcely an individual, is so devoid of intellig..

Bruges-la-morte

Georges Rodenbach

Bruges-la-Morte is a short French novel by the Belgian author Georges Rodenbach, first published in 1892. The novel is notable for two reasons, it was the archetypal Symbolist novel, and was the first..

Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts

Frank Richard Stockton

Buccaneers is non-fiction, a highly readable history of how piracy began and spread throughout the region in response to the plundering of Spanish colonialism. It is written with great flair for the d..

By Right of Conquest; Or, With Cortez in Mexico

G. A. Henty

In perhaps the most audacious military enterprise in the history of human conquest, Cortez, with only a few hundred men, conquered a civilization of tens of thousands. This is the story of an Englishm..

Cum Grano Salis

Randall Garrett

Cum Grano Salis is a short science fiction story written by Randall Garrett, an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines..