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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 004

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Various



A collection of eleven short nonfiction works in the public domain. The items included in this collection were independently selected by the…

Nature's Miracles Volume 3: Electricity and Magnetism

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Elisha Gray



Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Compan…

Democracy - An American Novel

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Henry Brooks Adams



Not until after his death in 1918 was it revealed that Henry Adams was the anonymous author of Democracy, which had been published to great …

Principia Ethica

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George Edward Moore



George Edward Moore, usually known as G. E. Moore, (1873 – 1958) was a distinguished and influential English philosopher. He was, with Bertr…

American Notes for General Circulation

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Charles Dickens



American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June, 1842. Wh…

Letters from Egypt

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Lucie Duff-Gordon



As a girl, Lady Duff-Gordon was noted both for her beauty and intelligence. As an author, she is most famous for this collection of letters …

A Defence of Idealism

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May Sinclair



The philosophy of Idealism, revived in eighteenth-century Europe by George Berkeley, argued against philosophical materialism by maintaining…

Poison Romance And Poison Mysteries

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Charles John Samuel Thompson



A writer and physician, Charles John Samuel Thompson wrote several works on poisons which are still consulted today. He is especially infor…

A Chesterton Calendar

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G. K. Chesterton



Go through the year, day by day, with the wit and wisdom of G.K. Chesterton! Compiled from the writings of 'G.K.C', both in verse and in pro…

Notes on the Book of Genesis

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Charles Henry Mackintosh



This chapter by chapter commentary on the first book of the Bible is full of spiritual insights. C H Mackintosh wrote in the late 19th centu…

The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collecting

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D. B. Casteel



The value of the honey bee in cross pollinating the flowers of fruit trees makes it desirable that exact information be available concerning…

Lives of Girls Who Became Famous

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Sarah Knowles Bolton



This book is a collection of short biographies of notable women, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Florence Nightingale, a…

The Home and the World

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Rabindranath Tagore



Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo religionist, visual artist, playwright, nov…

Historical Tales, Vol V: German

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Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews



Volume V of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This fifth volume covers th…

Behind the Scenes

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Elizabeth Keckley



This is the autobiography of Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who bought her freedom with the money she earned as a seamstress. She eventua…

The Formation of Vegetable Moulds through the Action of Worms with Observations on their Habits

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Charles Darwin



Charles Darwin LL.B F.R.S was the discoverer of evolution and argued the role of "natural selection" in directing the evolution of…

Wild Animals I Have Known

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Ernest Thompson Seton



A BOOK THAT CHANGED AMERICA... Ernest Thompson Seton was an influential naturalist, and a sometime professional hunter and trapper. Much of…

Great Englishwomen

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M. B. Synge



Great Englishwomen is a collection of biographies of some of the greatest women in England's history. Women who were leaders of their countr…

Ambassador Morgenthau's Story

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Henry Morgenthau



Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important prima…

The Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine

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William Carleton



A story about the Irish, just before the onset of the famine of 1847, with all the color and dialogue of a man who lived it. (Summary by JCa…

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