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Rough draughts of some of the following tales and essays were actually written during a residence...

Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) was an American lyrical poet.In 1913 Teasdale fell in love with poet Va...

THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES is an 1888 collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde. It...

Henry Bergson was a major French philosopher in the early 1900's. This lecture was delivered in 1...

All Things Considered

A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inha...

George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister. He is best known...

Mornings in Florence is a tour of one of the world's most beautiful cities by John Ruskin.John Ru...

The development and discipline of one's willpower is of greatest moment relatedtosuccess in life....

H G wells wrote both fiction and non-fiction. He worked in many genres including novels, history,...

Robert Louis Stevenson was a 19th century Scottish essayist, poet, novelist, and travel writer.Hi...

The place of origin of the Tlavatli or 2nd sub-race was an island off the west coast of Atlantis....

This novel, first published in 1907, brings to life Robin's experience and that of her colleagues...

Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson were writing for the Sydney `Bulletin' in 1892 when they decided ...

Descartes is universally acknowledged as the father of modern Western philosophy.It is to the wri...

Hugh Black was quoted as saying 'The subject of friendship is less thought of among us now than i...

Paradoxes of Catholicism

Both Sides the Border

James Oliver Curwood was an early 20th century writer who lived in Michigan, where he published s...

Thomas Winthrop Hall (1862-1900) wrote When Hearts are Trumps in 1898. Many of the verses in this...

Zane Grey was an American author best known for his adventure novels and pulp fiction that glamor...

Austin Flint (1812 -1886) was an American physician. He was educated at Amherst and Harvard and b...

Marcel Allain (1885 - 1969) was a French writer remembered for his co-creation with Pierre Souves...

Pauline S Passion and Punishment

Lives of John Donne

The Vampyre a Tale was the first vampire story written in English.John William Polidori (7 Septem...

Charles Dickens is considered to be one of the greatest British writers of all times.He was a soc...

While visiting her aunt and cousin near Fort Ticonderoga, on the western shore of Lake Champlain,...

Queen Lucia is a humorous delightful book. E F Benson was a 19th century English biographer, nove...

A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes was written by Lady Harriet Jephson.The ...

Between the Lines

With Airship and Submarine

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Toru Dutt (1856 ù1877) was an Indian poet who wrote in English and French.At the time of her deat...

Rev. Dr. Charles William Gordon used the pen name Ralph Connor when writing his novels in order t...

The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World

Elizabeth Gaskell was a Victorian short storywriter and novelist.Her biography of Charlotte Bront...

Chaucer

Saint Francis was born in 1181. He was a Catholic friar and founder of the Franciscans. He is the...

Writings of Thomas Paine Volume 2 1779-1792 the Rights of Man

Martha Finley was a 19th century American author of children's stories.Her characters were good c...

A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music was written by Henry Krehbiel.The ...

Honora de Balzac is considered the founder of social realism.Balzac was the first writer to write...

Andrew Melville

Horatio Alger wrote 135 dime novels in the latter part of the 19th century.His stories were rags ...

Bud Lee horse foreman of the Blue Lake Ranch sat upon the gate of the home corral builded a cigar...

Yale Book of American Verse