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The Lost Prince Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924 The Lost Prince is a 1915 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett that follows Marco Loristan and his friend, a street urchin known as The Rat. Together, they are given a …
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She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774 The play presents a comic sequence of misunderstandings and mistaken identities centered on Young Marlow and Miss Hardcastle. Mr. and Mrs. Hardcastle are concerned …
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Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson is a non-fiction travel work first published in December 1878. It takes readers on a guided walk through Edin…
Cover of Memories and Portraits
Memories and Portraits Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson is a collection of autobiographical essays that draws on recollections from his early life and on sketches of peopl…
Cover of Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished Romance
Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished Romance Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished Romance, by Robert Louis Stevenson, is a novel published in 1896 and set during the Napoleonic Wars. The story follows Archie Weir,…
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Worldly Ways & Byways Gregory, Eliot, 1854-1915 Worldly Ways & Byways is a collection of late-19th-century essays by Eliot Gregory that uses humor and light philosophical reflection to examine social behavior and…
Cover of The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc
The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc Martorell, Joanot, -1468; Galba, Martí Joan de, -1490; Rudder, Robert S. [Translator] Tirant Lo Blanc, published in 1490 by Joanot Martorell and Martí Joan de Galba, is a chivalric romance that traces the adventures of Tirant, a knight from Brittany,…
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Kansas Women in Literature Barker, Nettie Garmer, 1882-1953 Kansas Women in Literature by Nettie Garmer Barker is a collection of biographical sketches compiled in the early twentieth century. The book brings together portra…
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Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in London During the Last Great Visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London
A Journal of the Plague Year Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in London During the Last Great Visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe, published in 1722, presents the experiences of a single man during the Great Plague of London in 1665, when bubonic pl…
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? Ambrose Bierce’s short story presents the final moments of Peyton Farquhar, a Confederate sympathizer, who is condemned to be hanged from a railroad bridge during t…
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Fantastic Fables Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce is a collection of satirical fables that uses whimsy, humor, and irony to comment on late-19th-century society. Through a sequenc…
Cover of Lay Morals, and Other Papers
Lay Morals, and Other Papers Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894; Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift, 1840-1914 [Author of introduction, etc.] This collection of reflective essays by Robert Louis Stevenson examines ethics, education, and the moral challenges that arise when individuals try to act with inte…
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Prince Otto, a Romance Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 Prince Otto, a Romance is a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, published in 1885. Set in the small German state of Grünewald, the story begins when Prince Otto become…
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Literary Blunders: A Chapter in the "History of Human Error" Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin), 1838-1917 Henry B. Wheatley’s Literary Blunders, a historical study of human error in writing, examines the kinds of mistakes that arise in literature, with particular attent…
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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 Published in 1722, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe follows Moll’s rise and repeated setbacks as she struggles to survive. B…