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English Past and Present

Richard Chenevix Trench

A series of four lectures which I delivered last spring to the pupils of the King’s College School, London, supplied the foundation to this present volume. These lectures, which I was obliged to prepa..

Histoire de la Révolution française, Tome 03

Histoire de la Révolution française, Tome 03 is a French history writing by Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers, a French statesman and historian. He was the second elected President of France, and..

Le songe doré de la pucelle

Anonymous

Le songe doré de la pucelle, a French poety collection compiled by anonymous author...

Life in a Mediæval City

Edwin Benson

A short and gentle overview of mediaeval life in a large city. It lightly covers the class structure of society, local government, guilds, pageantry and punishment. The author has an easy, rhythmic st..

Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos

Ninon de Lenclos

Anne "Ninon" de l'Enclos also spelled Ninon de Lenclos and Ninon de Lanclos was a French author, courtesan, and patron of the arts...

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922

Lucy Maud Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels that began with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Once published, Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success. The cen..

The Precipice - A Novel

Elia W. Peattie

The Precipice is a story of the romantic rivalry among three men, condemning nihilism as subverting the religious and moral values of Russia. It was originally published in 1869 in Vestnik Evropy. Lat..

A Shropshire Lad

A. E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad is a cycle of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman. A Shropshire Lad was first published in 1896 at Housman's own expense after several publishers had turned it..