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By: Helen Leah Reed (1860-1926) | |
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Brenda's Ward A Sequel to 'Amy in Acadia' | |
Brenda's Bargain A Story for Girls |
By: Luise Mühlbach (1814-1873) | |
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Louisa of Prussia and Her Times | |
Prince Eugene and His Times |
By: Helen Leah Reed (1860-1926) | |
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Miss Theodora A West End Story |
By: Luise Mühlbach (1814-1873) | |
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The Youth of the Great Elector |
By: Frank Wedekind (1864-1918) | |
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Pandora's Box | |
Earth Spirit
Earth Spirit (1895) (Erdgeist) is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the first part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays (the second is Pandora's Box [1904]), both of which depict a society "riven by the demands of lust and greed". Together with Pandora's Box, Wedekind's play formed the basis for the silent film Pandora's Box (1929) starring Louise Brooks and the opera Lulu by Alban Berg in 1935 (premiered posthumously in 1937). The eponymous "earth spirit" of this play is Lulu, who Wedekind described as a woman "created to stir up great disaster... |
By: Jane H. Newell | |
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Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; from Seed to Leaf |
By: Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903) | |
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The English Gipsies and Their Language | |
The Gypsies | |
Algonquin Legends of New England | |
Memoirs | |
Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series | |
Hans Breitman's ballads |
By: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) | |
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The Woman's Bible | |
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I |
By: Edward C. Kendall | |
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John Deere's Steel Plow |
By: Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944) | |
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Space, Time and Gravitation An Outline of the General Relativity Theory |