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Explore our collection of literary books and timeless literary classics at our online bookstore, featuring the best in teenage literature, literary fiction, and modern literature. Discover must-read and best-selling titles, along with insightful criticism literature to enhance your reading experience.
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The Me Nobody Knows: Children's Voices from the Ghetto"A round my block there is a lat of glass and food and paper and people fight all the time. I like people to love each other." The ghetto child speaks, and the world emerges as he sees it and as he wishes it...
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Happy-Go-LuckyDavid Sedaris, the "champion storyteller," (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso. Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask--or not--was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent...
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Ioläus: An Anthology of FriendshipIoläus: An Anthology of FriendshipThe degree to which Friendship, in the early history of the world, has been recognised as an institution, and the dignity ascribed to it, are things hardly realized to-day. Yet a very slight examination of the subject shows the important...
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Turkish Literature Comprising Fables, Belles-lettres, and Sacred TraditionsTurkish Literature; Comprising Fables, Belles-lettres, and Sacred TraditionsTHE national literature of Turkey is something with which the European and American mind is by no means familiar, and, indeed, it has only recently become a distinctive feature in the worlds intellectual activity. Turkey is really...
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Awdeley's Fraternitye of Vacabondes, Harman's Caueat, Haben's Sermon, &cAwdeley's Fraternitye of Vacabondes, Harman's Caueat, Haben's Sermon, &c.If the ways and slang of Vagabonds and Beggars interested Martin Luther enough to make him write a preface to the Liber Vagatorum1 in 1528, two of the ungodly may be excused for caring, in 1869,...
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The Iris: An Illuminated Souvenir for 1852The Iris: An Illuminated Souvenir for MDCCCLIICaptain Eastman, of the United States Topographical Corps, having been stationed for nine years on our northwestern frontier, among the Indian tribes, at and around Fort Snelling, made a series of drawings of some of the most striking...
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The best for mothersA Mother's Year BookThis little volume has been compiled for mothers and is lovingly offered as a tribute to the memory of the almost perfect mother whose love cradled my own childhood so sweetly as to make all motherhood forever more dear to me....
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The Book-Lovers' AnthologyThe Book-Lovers' AnthologyOne of the most delightful of the Last Essays of Elia is entitled 'Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading', a title which would serve very well to indicate the contents of this anthology. In bringing together into one volume the tributes and...
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Selected Works of Voltairine de CleyreSelected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre"Nature has the habit of now and then producing a type of human being far in advance of the times; an ideal for us to emulate; a being devoid of sham, uncompromising, and to whom the truth is sacred;...
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The English Lake DistrictThe English Lake District Mere under mountain lone, like a moat under lowering ramparts; Garrulous petulant beck, sinister laughterless tarn; Haunt of the vagabond feet of my fancy for ever reverting, Haunt of this vagabond heart, Cumbrian valleys and fells; You that enchant all...
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Wisconsin in Story and Song;Wisconsin in Story and Song; - Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Badger State WritersIn preparing this book the editors have had two main purposes in view. Their first purpose has been to furnish some definite knowledge concerning literary productions of Wisconsin people....
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Prairie GoldPrairie Gold This volume, from the land of the singing corn, is offered to the public by the Iowa Press and Authors' Club as the first bit of co-operative work done by Iowa writers. The anticipated needs of the brave men who have given...
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Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 2 of 2Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 2 of 2James Newton Baskett, novelist and scientist, was born near Carlisle, Kentucky, November 1, 1849. He was taken to Missouri in early life by his parents. He was graduated from the University of Missouri in 1872, since...
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Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 1 of 2Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 1 of 2I What is a Kentucky book, is the one great question this work has elicited. Surely a Kentucky book is one written by a Kentuckian about Kentucky or Kentuckians and printed in Kentucky; surely it is...
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The Animal Story BookThe Animal Story BookChildren who have read our Fairy Books may have noticed that there are not so very many fairies in the stories after all. The most common characters are birds, beasts, and fishes, who talk and act like Christians. The reason of...
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Mind Amongst the Spindles. A Miscellany, Wholly Composed by the Factory GirlsMind Amongst the Spindles. A Miscellany, Wholly Composed by the Factory GirlsIn the American state of Massachusetts, one of the New England states, which was colonized by the stern Puritans who were driven from our country by civil and religious persecution, has sprung up...
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Southern Literature From 1579-1895Southern Literature From 1579-1895 - A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticismsTHE primary object of this book is to furnish our children with material for becoming acquainted with the development of American life and history as found in Southern writers and their works....
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Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayingsUncle Remus, his songs and his sayingsThe person or persons who have associated work with this document (the "Dedicator" or "Certifier") hereby either (a) certifies that, to the best of his knowledge, the work of authorship identified is in the public domain of the...
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Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and PoetryThomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry In the present edition of Thomas Davis it is designed to offer a selection of his writings more fully representative than has hitherto appeared in one volume. The book opens with the best of his historical...
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Japanese LiteratureJapanese Literature - Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of JapanThe poetry of a nation is always the best revealer of its genuine life: the range of its spiritual as well as of its intellectual outlook. This is the case...
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