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According to Wikipedia: "e;Apologia Pro Vita Sua (Latin: A defense of his life) is the classic defense by John Henry Newman of his religious opinions, published in 1864 in response to what he saw as an unwarranted attack on him, the Catholic p...

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Selon Wikipedia: "e;Valentin Louis Georges Eugene Marcel Proust (10 Juillet 1871 - 18 Novembre 1922) etait un romancier, essayiste et critique francais, mieux connu comme l'auteur de la recherche du temps perdu Remembrance of Things Past), une...

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Novel for children. According to Wikipedia: "e;Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 - 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet whose children's works were published under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on ...

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One of Balzac's finest novels. According to Wikipedia: "e;Honore de Balzac (May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively ent...

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This book-collection file includes: Sonnets, A Lover's Complaint, The Passionate Pilgrim, The Rape of Lucrece, and Venus and Adonis. According to Wikipedia: "e;William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 - died 23 April 1616) was an English po...

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Bible times and characters from creation to Esther. The introduction begins: "e;The term Rabbinic was applied to the Jewish Literature of post-Biblical times by those who conceived the Judaism of the later epoch to be something different from ...

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According to Wikipedia: "e;George Gordon Byron, later Noel, 6th Baron Byron FRS (1788 - 1824) was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems When We Two Parted, She Walks in Beauty,...

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Classic novel for children. One of Burnett's best known books. According to Wikipedia: "e;Little Lord Fauntleroy is the first children's novel written by English playwright and author Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was originally published as a s...

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According to Wikipedia: "e;John Ruskin (8 February 1819 - 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on sub...

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Four stories by Twain -- The Mysterious Stranger, A Fable, Hunting the Deceitful Turkey, and The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm. According to Wikipedia: "e;Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, wa...

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According to Wikipedia: "e;Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry."e; "e;The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in ...

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According to Wikipedia: "e;News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. In the book, the narrator, William Guest, falls as...

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Humorous novel, first published in 1900. "e;If a wife is allowed to boil at all she will always boil over."e; According to Wikipedia: "e;Elizabeth Strong Worthington (1888 - 1908) was a popular American writer during the latter part of...

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Humorous novel, first published in 1898. "e;They are really delicious -- when properly treated."e; According to Wikipedia: "e;Elizabeth Strong Worthington (1888 - 1908) was a popular American writer during the latter part of the 1800s....

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According to Wikipedia: "e;Henry James, O.M. (April 15, 1843(1843-04-15) - February 28, 1916) was an American author. He is one of the key figures of 19th century literary realism; the fine art of his writing has led many academics to consider...

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According to Wikipedia: "e;Titus Andronicus may be Shakespeare's earliest tragedy; it is believed to have been written sometime between 1584 and the early 1590s. It depicts a Roman general who is engaged in a cycle of revenge with his enemy Ta...

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First published in 1915, with hundreds of recipes contributed by supporters of the suffrage movement (seeking the right to vote for women). "e;There are cook books and cook books, and their generation is not ended; a generation that began in t...

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With 24 color illustrations by W. W. Denslow.According to Wikipedia: "e;The story chronicles the adventures of a young girl named Dorothy Gale in the Land of Oz, after being swept away from her Kansas farm home in a cyclone.[nb 1] The novel is...

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"e;A number of tendencies that have always existed in philosophy have all at once become conscious of themselves collectively, and of their combined mission; and this has occurred in so many countries, and from so many different points of view...

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"e;Begun in the winter of 1874, a first instalment of "e;A Study of Shakespeare"e; appeared in the _Fortnightly Review_ for May 1875, and a second in the number for June 1876, but the completed work was not issued in book form until Ju...

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With eight black-and-white illustrations. "e;Being an Account of Certain Adventures that Befell Henry Mostyn under Captain H. Morgan in the Year 1665-66."e; According to Wikipedia: "e;Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 - November 9, 1911) was ...

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First published in 1907. With nine black-and-white illustrations. "e;For some years past a lack of competent men in the profession of Piano Tuning has been generally acknowledged. This may be accounted for as follows: The immense popularity of...

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"e;Framed as a dialog between the king of the Khazars, a Central Asian kingdom, and a Rabbi, the Khazari is an exposition of late medieval Jewish philosophy. Legend has it that the king of the Khazars held a symposium to decide whether his peo...

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"e;If Music be, among the arts, 'Heaven's youngest-teemed star', the latest of the art-forms she herself has brought forth is unquestionably Opera. Three hundred years does not at first seem a very short time, but it is not long when it covers...

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Recipes for salads, soups, main dishes, vegetable dishes, pancakes and fritters, doughnuts, sweets and rolls, cakes, cookies, pies, desserts, and sweets and sours. First published around 1900. According to the preface. "e;In 1683 the Plain Sec...

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First published in 1919. "e;In the Italian cuisine we find in the highest degree these three qualities. That it is palatable, all those who have partaken of food in an Italian "e;trattoria"e; or at the home of an Italian family can tes...

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83 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. "e;In which are related the Exciting Experiences of Princess Ozma of Oz, and Dorothy, in their hazardous journey to the home of the Flatheads, and to the Magic Isle of the Skeezers, and how t...

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With over 100 illustrations by John R. Neill, from the original edition, first published in 1915. "e;In which is related how Dorothy Gale of Kansas, The Shaggy Man, Button Bright, and Polychrome the Rainbow's Daughter met on an Enchanted Road ...

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"e;It is a melancholy reflection upon the history of the Jews that they have failed to pay due honor to their two greatest philosophers. Spinoza was rejected by his contemporaries from the congregation of Israel; Philo-Judaeus was neglected by...

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"e;JUST as the Written Law given by Moses emanates from God, whilst He Himself only proclaimed the first two commandments of the Decalogue, owing to the Israelites being too terrified to hear God's voice (Deut. 20. 19), and the whole of the To...

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