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By: Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) | |
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By: Louis Becke (1855-1913) | |
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By: Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868) | |
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![]() On Christmas Eve, two children, a brother and sister, leave their grandmother's house in an Alpine village and get lost in the mountain snow. They become trapped among the rock crystals of the frozen glacier. This short and gripping novel, by 19th century Austrian master Adalbert Stifter, influenced Thomas Mann and others with its suspenseful, simple, myth-like story and majestic depictions of nature. Poet W.H. Auden called the work "a quiet and beautiful parable about the relation of people to places, of man to nature."(Introduction by Greg W.) |
By: Elias Lönnrot (1802-1884) | |
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By: Elias Lönnrot (1802-1884) | |
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![]() The Kalevala is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology. It is regarded as the national epic of Karelia and Finland and is one of the most significant works of Finnish literature. The Kalevala played an instrumental role in the development of the Finnish national identity, the intensification of Finland's language strife and the growing sense of nationality that ultimately led to Finland's independence from Russia in 1917... |
By: L. A. (Lemuel Arthur) Pittenger (1873-) | |
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By: Clara Erskine Clement Waters (1834-1916) | |
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By: Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939) | |
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![]() Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. (May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Baghdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro. His book, Laugh and Live, is a book about positive virtues and advice for leading a good, healthy, and successful life. An advisory about this book is in order. Published in 1917, it was written at a time when “men went to work, women kept house, and supported their man”... |
By: Katharine Newlin Burt (1882-1977) | |
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![]() A bit of a menage-a-quatre in a remote cabin in the wilderness as fugitive Hugh, his younger brother Pete, nursemaid and cook Bella, and now the newly arrived snow-blinded young Sylvie who had been snatched from near death in the snow by the heroic but moody Hugh. Because of her blindness, Sylvie is led to believe her rescuer to be a handsome and dashing hero; his younger brother to be but a young lad of 14; and Bella a matronly old maid. But Sylvie would, in time, form her own image of the clan and attempt to bring them together as they were destined to be split apart... | |
![]() From the cold and mountainous regions of Wyoming to the bright lights of the big city, The Branding Iron is the story of a remarkable woman, Joan Carver. Born of poor means, at a fairly young age Joan decides to leave her father and strike out on her own, but she is to face more difficulties and hardships than she had reckoned for, and the men she encounters on her way share different means of dealing with her; and she of them. She becomes her own individual, with a strong will and a determination to lead her life as she sees fit. As with many of Ms. Burt's stories, The Branding Iron is filled with unexpected surprises at each turn. |
By: Katharine Newlin Burt (1882-1977) | |
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By: Hugo Ziemann | |
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By: Hannah Trager (1870-1943) | |
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![]() Hannah Trager published Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago in 1926, so the book is a portrait of day to day life for a Jewish family in Jerusalem around 1876. In each chapter, Mr. Jacobs reads a letter from his cousins living in Jerusalem many years earlier, each one teaching his family and friends about a different holiday or tradition of their people. (Introduction by wildemoose) |
By: Filson Young (1876-1938) | |
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By: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832-1910) | |
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By: Cyrus Thomas (1825-1910) | |
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By: Filson Young (1876-1938) | |
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By: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832-1910) | |
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![]() "A Happy Boy" was written in 1859 and 1860. It is, in my estimation, Bjørnson's best story of peasant life. In it the author has succeeded in drawing the characters with remarkable distinctness, while his profound psychological insight, his perfectly artless simplicity of style, and his thorough sympathy with the hero and his surroundings are nowhere more apparent. This view is sustained by the great popularity of "A Happy Boy" throughout Scandinavia. (From the Preface) Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1903. | |
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By: Filson Young (1876-1938) | |
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By: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832-1910) | |
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By: Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952) | |
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By: Alonzo Reed (1899-) | |
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By: Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) | |
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By: Alonzo Reed (1899-) | |
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By: Lodovico Ariosto (1474-1533) | |
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By: Vaughan Kester (1869-1911) | |
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![]() Framed for a murder he did not commit, John North must rely on his friends to help clear him of the charge. But, are they really his friends? Many have dirty little secrets they wish to keep private, even at the expense of John North’s life. Ironically, those keeping quiet include members of the legal profession. Only one drunken man knows the true identity of the killer but he has mysteriously disappeared. Deceit and betrayal flourish in this story, with a tense conclusion. (Introduction by Tom Weiss) | |
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By: Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) | |
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![]() Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer. He remains notable for his wit and agnosticism, which marked him as one of the most famous American lawyers and civil libertarians.In this book, Darrow expands on his lifelong contention that psychological, physical, and environmental influences—not a conscious choice between right and wrong—control human behavior. To my ears (the reader's), the author has a rather simplistic behaviourist view of human behaviour, but he argues his position with wonderful clarity... |
By: M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis (1775-1818) | |
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By: H. M. (Herbert Minton) Cundall (1848-1940) | |
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By: Hans Aanrud (1863-1953) | |
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![]() Lisbeth Longfrock - (Sidsel Sidsærkin in its original Norwegian) was seen by the author as a book written for adults, telling the story of a young girl growing up in a farming district in a steep-sided Norwegian Valley. It was first written when the author's daughter was 8 years old, the age of Lisbeth when the book begins, so she would know about his childhood spent in similar surroundings, living on a farm and spending summer in charge of the cows and goats on the mountain pastures. |
By: Watty [Editor] Piper | |
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By: Elisha Benjamin Andrews (1844-1917) | |
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By: F. Marion Crawford (1854-1909) | |
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By: Timothy S. Arthur (1809-1885) | |
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