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The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant, Part 1, by Ulysses S. Grant 5860
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Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Vol. II., Part 4, William T. Sherman 5853
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Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Vol. II., Part 3, William T. Sherman 5852
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Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Vol. I., Part 2, by William T. Sherman 5851
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Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Vol. I., Part 1, by William T. Sherman 5850
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete, by Ulysses S. Grant 4367
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The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete, by William T. Sherman 4361
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The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Vol. II., by William T. Sherman 2617
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The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Vol. I., by William T. Sherman 2616
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The Man Who Knew Too Much, by G.K. Chesterton 1720
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At the Sign of the Cat and Racket, by Honore de Balzac 1680
[Translated by Clara Bell]
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The Alkahest, by Honore de Balzac 1453
[Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley]
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The Ball at Sceaux, by Honore de Balzac 1305
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Volume Two, by Ulysses S. Grant 1068
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Volume One, by Ulysses S. Grant 1067
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The Mad King, by Edgar Rice Burroughs 364
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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau 71
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The Song Of Hiawatha, by Henry W. Longfellow 19
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Feb 1999 The Man Who Knew Too Much, by G. K. Chesterton[#5][mwktmxxx.xxx] 1647
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Joris Komijn op de Tentoonstelling, by Justus van Maurik 12637
[Subtitle: Humoristische schets van Justus van Maurik]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/3/12637 ]
[Files: 12637.txt; 12637-8.txt; 12637-h.htm]
Katharina von Bora, by D. Albrecht Thoma 12636
[Subtitle: Geschichtliches Lebensbild]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/3/12636 ]
[Files: 12636.txt; 12636-8.txt; 12636-0.txt]
The Philippine Islands 1493-1898, Vol. 4 of 55, by Blair and Robertson 12635
[Author: Edited by E. H. Blair and J. A. Robertson]
[Subtitle: 1576-1582]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/3/12635 ]
[Files: 12635.txt; 12635-8.txt]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, & Instruction, Vol. XVII, No. 489 12634
[May 14, 1831]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/3/12634 ]
[Files: 12634.txt; 12634-8.txt; 12634-h.htm]
A Happy Boy, by Bjornstjerne Bjornson [Tr.: Rasmus B. Anderson] 12633
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/3/12633 ]
[Files: 12633.txt]
Yesterdays with Authors, by James T. Fields 12632
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/3/12632 ]
[Files: 12632.txt; 12632-8.txt; 12632-h.htm]
The Seven Little Sisters, by Jane Andrews 12631
[Title: The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats
in the Air]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/3/12631 ]
[Files: 12631.txt]
The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad, by Thornton W. Burgess 12630
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/3/12630 ]
[Files: 12630.txt; 12630-h.htm]
Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech, by Edward Sapir 12629
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/2/12629 ]
[Files: 12629.txt; 12629-8.txt; 12629-h.htm]
Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold, by Matthew Arnold 12628
[Edited with Introduction and Notes by William Savage Johnson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/2/12628 ]
[Files: 12628.txt; 12628-8.txt]
Escenas Montanesas, by D. Jose M. de Pereda 12627
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/2/12627 ]
[Files: 12627.txt; 12627-8.txt]
The Earlier Work of Titian, by Claude Phillips 12626
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/2/12626 ]
[Files: 12626.txt; 12626-8.txt; 12626-h.htm; ]
Architecture and Democracy, by Claude Fayette Bragdon 12625
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/2/12625 ]
[Files: 12625.txt; 12625-8.txt; ]
Our Lady Saint Mary, by J. G. H. Barry 12624
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/2/12624 ]
[Files: 12624.txt; 12624-8.txt; 12624-h.htm; ]
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808 Edn.), by Daniel Defoe 12623
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/2/12623 ]
[Files: 12623.txt; 12623-h.htm; ]
Poems, by Denis Florence MacCarthy 12622
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/2/12622 ]
[Files: 12622.txt; 12622-h.htm]
The Book of Dreams and Ghosts, by Andrew Lang 12621
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/2/12621 ]
[Files: 12621.txt; 12621-h.htm ]
Contes d'Amerique, by Louis Mullem 12620
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/2/12620 ]
[Files: 12620.txt; 12620-8.txt]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, & Instruction, Vol. XVII, No. 473 12619
[January 29, 1831]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/1/12619 ]
[Files: 12619.txt; 12619-8.txt; 12619-h.htm]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, & Instruction, Vol. XVII, No. 472 12618
[January 22, 1831]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/1/12618 ]
[Files: 12618.txt; 12618-8.txt; 12618-h.htm]
Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century, by Montague Massey 12617
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/1/12617 ]
[Files: 12617.txt; 12617-8.txt; 12617-h.htm]
Around Old Bethany, by Robert Lee Berry 12616
[Subtitle: A Story of the Adventures of Robert and Mary Davis]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/1/12616 ]
[Files: 12616.txt; 12616-h.htm; ]
The Song of our Syrian Guest, by William Allen Knight 12615
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/1/12615 ]
[Files: 12615.txt; ]
Punch, Vol. 161, April 9, 1919, Ed. by Owen Seaman 12614
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/1/12614 ]
[Files: 12614.txt; 12614-8.txt; 12614-h.htm]
Eros' begravning, by Hjalmar Bergman 12613
[Language: Swedish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/1/12613 ]
[Files: 12613.txt; 12613-8.txt]
Lyhyita kertomuksia, by Minna Canth 12612
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/1/12612 ]
[Files: 12612.txt; 12612-8.txt]
The Regent, by E. Arnold Bennett 12611
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/1/12611 ]
[Files: 12611.txt; 12611-8.txt; 12611-h.htm]
Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays, by Annie Roe Carr 12610
[Subtitle: Rescuing the Runaways]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/1/12610 ]
[Files: 12610.txt; 12610-8.txt; ]
Back to the Woods, by Hugh McHugh [Pseud. of George V. Hobart] 12609
[Subtitle: The Story of a Fall from Grace]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/0/12609 ]
[Files: 12609.txt; ]
Get Next!, by Hugh McHugh [Pseud. of George V. Hobart] 12608
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/0/12608 ]
[Files: 12608.txt; ]
You Can Search Me, by Hugh McHugh [Pseud. of George V. Hobart] 12607
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/0/12607 ]
[Files: 12607.txt; ]
The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster 12606
[Subtitle: With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style
by Edwin P. Whipple]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/0/12606 ]
[Files: 12606.txt; 12606-8.txt; ]
Parish Papers, by Norman Macleod 12605
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/0/12605 ]
[Files: 12605.txt; 12605-8.txt; ]
Ylosnousemus II, by Leo Tolstoi 12604
[Translated by Eero Jarnefelt]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/0/12604 ]
[Files: 12604-8.txt]
La tete de Martin, by E. Grange, Decourcelle et Th. Barriere 12603
[Subtitle: Comedie en un acte]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/0/12603 ]
[Files: 12603.txt; 12603-8.txt; 12603-h.htm]
Contes, anecdotes et recits Canadiens, by Aristide Filiatreault 12602
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/0/12602 ]
[Files: 12602.txt; 12602-8.txt; 12602-h.htm]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, & Instruction, Vol. XIX, No. 528 12601
[January 7, 1832]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/0/12601 ]
[Files: 12601.txt; 12601-8.txt; 12601-h.htm]
Old and New Masters, by Robert Lynd 12600
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/6/0/12600 ]
[Files: 12600.txt; 12600-8.txt; 12600-h.htm]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, & Instruction, Vol. XVII, No. 482 12599
[March 26, 1831]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/9/12599 ]
[Files: 12599.txt; 12599-8.txt; 12599-h.htm; ]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, & Instruction, Vol. XVII, No. 481 12598
[March 19, 1831]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/9/12598 ]
[Files: 12598.txt; 12598-h.htm; ]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, & Instruction, Vol. XVII, No. 480 12597
[March 12, 1831]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/9/12597 ]
[Files: 12597.txt; 12597-8.txt; 12597-h.htm; ]
The Purple Heights, by Marie Conway Oemler 12596
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/9/12596 ]
[Files: 12596.txt; 12596-8.txt; 12596-h.htm]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, & Instruction, Vol X, No. 272 12595
[Subtitle: Volume 10, No. 272, Saturday, September 8, 1827]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/9/12595 ]
[Files: 12595.txt; 12595-8.txt; 12595-h.htm]
Creative Impulse in Industry, by Helen Marot 12594
[Subtitle: A Proposition for Educators]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/9/12594 ]
[Files: 12594.txt; 12594-8.txt]
Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 11, No. 65, March, 1863, by Various 12593
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/9/12593 ]
[Files: 12593.txt; 12593-8.txt]
J.S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5, by J.S. Le Fanu 12592
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/9/12592 ]
[Files: 12592.txt; 12592-8.txt; 12592-h.htm]
Tiger and Tom and Other Stories for Boys, by Various 12591
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/9/12591 ]
[Files: 12591.txt; 12591-h.htm]
The Shadow of the Rope, by E. W. Hornung 12590
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/9/12590 ]
[Files: 12590.txt; 12590-8.txt; 12590-h.htm]
Notes & Queries, No. 31., Saturday, June 1, 1850, by Various 12589
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/8/12589 ]
[Files: 12589.txt; 12589-8.txt; 12589-h.htm]
Cavour, by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco 12588
[Author AKA: Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington (1852-1931)]
[The life and accomplishments of Camillo Benso, Conti di Cavour, an
important figure in the Risorgimento]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/8/12588 ]
[Files: 12588.txt; 12588-8.txt; ]
The Man Who Laughs, by Victor Hugo 12587
[Subtitle: A Romance of English History]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/8/12587 ]
[Files: 12587.txt; 12587-8.txt; 12587-h.htm; ]
Satan, by Lewis Sperry Chafer 12586
[Author: Foreward by C. I. Scofield]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/8/12586 ]
[Files: 12586.txt; 12586-h.htm; ]
Seaward Sussex, by Edric Holmes 12585
[Subtitle: The South Downs from End to End]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/8/12585 ]
[Files: 12585.txt; 12585-8.txt; 12585-h.htm]
Phebe, Her Profession, by Anna Chapin Ray 12584
[Subtitle: A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/8/12584 ]
[Files: 12584.txt; 12584-8.txt]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. XX, No. 557 12583
[July 14, 1832]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/8/12583 ]
[Files: 12583.txt; 12583-8.txt; 12583-h.htm]
History of Rome, Vol III, Books 27 To 36, by Titus Livius 12582
[Literally Translated, with Notes and Illustrations, by Cyrus Edmonds]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/8/12582 ]
[Files: 12582.txt; 12582-8.txt; 12582-h.htm]
Elbow-Room, by Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler) 12581
[Subtitle: A Novel Without a Plot]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/8/12581 ]
[Files: 12581.txt; 12581-8.txt]
Beneficiary Features of American Trade Unions, by James B. Kennedy 12580
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/8/12580 ]
[Files: 12580.txt; 12580-8.txt; 12580-h.htm]
As Farpas (Junho 1883), by Ramalho Ortigao, Eca de queiroz 12579
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/7/12579 ]
[Files: 12579.txt; 12579-8.txt]
The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare [Adapt. by Charles Kean] 12578
[Subtitle: Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre, with
Historical and Explanatory Notes by Charles Kean, F.S.A.]
(Note: This is a combination script and program for a run of The
Merchant of Venice which opened at the Princess's Theatre on June 12,
1858. Mr Kean, who played Shylock, edited Shakespeare's play liberally.)
Strange True Stories of Louisiana, by George Washington Cable 12577
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/7/12577 ]
[Files: 12577.txt; 12577-8.txt; 12577-h.htm; ]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, by Various 12576
[Subtitle: Volume 17, No. 478, Saturday, February 26, 1831]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/7/12576 ]
[Files: 12576.txt; 12576-8.txt; 12576-h.htm]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, by Various 12575
[Subtitle: Volume 17, No. 471, Saturday, January 15, 1831]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/7/12575 ]
[Files: 12575.txt; 12575-8.txt; 12575-h.htm]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, by Various 12574
[Subtitle: Vol. XX. No. 556., Saturday, July 7, 1832]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/5/7/12574 ]
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German Classics of the 19th & 20th Centuries, Vol. VIII, Ed. by Francke 12573
[Title: The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,
Vol. VIII]
[Subtitle: Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English.
In Twenty Volumes]
[Kuno Francke, Editor-in-Chief]
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The World's Greatest Books, Vol X, by Various 12572
[Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton]
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David Price sends along the following about #12621, "The Book of Dreams and
Ghosts", by Andrew Lang:
"The chief purpose of this book is, if fortune helps, to entertain people
interested in the kind of narratives here collected." So wrote Mr. Lang.
It's a collection of well-known and not-so-well-known ghost stories - not
the literary kind but the kind that normal people report. Andrew Lang isn't
sure what to make of such tales, but he's fairly sure that something is going on
- possibly hallucination, possibly a waking-dream, or possibly - well, he
doesn't really say. It's a light introduction to the stories, and Andrew Lang's
wry sense of humour often comes through.
(David promises more elucidation on Mr. Lang in the near future.)
. . .
And with the posting of this week's #12623, another version of Daniel Defoe's
"The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808 Edn.)", Joe Loewenstein
provides the following clarification in his editorial preface:
Daniel Defoe's tale of Robinson Crusoe was first published in 1719.
Numerous, almost countless-versions were published subsequently. Several
are available in Project Gutenberg's library, including the following
e-books: #521, #561, #5902, #6328, #6936, #11239, #11866.
Various tales have been included in the different versions, usually
under the names of "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe," "The Further
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe," and "Robinson Crusoe's Vision of the
Angelic World." Even an account of the adventures of Alexander Selkirk,
who was marooned for four years on an island in the Pacific Ocean, has
been incorporated into some versions of the Robinson Crusoe stories.
This e-book, taken from an 1808 edition, includes "The Adventures of
Robinson Crusoe" and "The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe."
. . .
Menu for today: gorgonzola cheese sandwiches (mustard optional) and a glass of
burgundy (or a pint).
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