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A Cynic Looks at Life
A Cynic Looks at Life by Ambrose Bierce
Civilization, Immortality, the Death Penalty, these are just a few of the essays enclosed in this collection, A Cynic Looks At Life. Written by Ambrose Bierce, these essays continue to be thought provoking, offering a valid outlook on life.
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Life of Charles Dickens
Life of Charles Dickens by Frank T. Marzials
Early biography of Charles Dickens published just 17 years after Dickens’ death.
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass by Charles W. Chesnutt
Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass became one of America’s great icons. He escaped slavery to become one of our great abolitionists, statesman, writer, orator, all around social reformer and intellectual of our time.
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Yep, That Was Me
Yep, That Was Me by Mike Bozart
A rambunctious Australian is determined to see the world at an early age. He stows away on a jetliner. But, just after takeoff …
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The Moon and Sixpence
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
This Maugham novel is based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told by the narrator as he gradually comes to know the main character Charles Strickland, a middle aged stock broker. We follow Strickland from the point where he abruptly abandons his wife and children to become an artist, through his life in Paris and Marseille to Tahiti, where he eventually dies of leprosy.
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Recollections of the Civil War
Recollections of the Civil War by Charles Anderson Dana
Recollections of the Civil War records the events that took place during the American Civil war. It forms one of the most remarkable volumes of historical, political, and personal reminiscences which have been given to the public. Mr. Dana wrote these Recollections of the civil war according to a purpose which he had entertained for several years. They were completed only a few months before his death on October 17, 1897. Go to the e-book on this book’s catalog page for some great illustrations and an index.
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Life of Saint Monica
Life of Saint Monica by F. A. Forbes
This book is above all things the story of a mother. But it is also the story of a noble woman—a woman who was truly great, for the reason that she never sought to be so. Because she understood the sphere in which a woman’s work in the world must usually lie, and led her life truly along the lines that God had laid down for her; because she suffered bravely, forgot herself for others, and remained faithful to her noble ideals, she ruled as a queen amongst those with whom her life was cast. Her influence was great and far-reaching, but she herself was the last to suspect it, the last to desire it, and that was perhaps the secret of its greatness. The type is rare at the present day, but, thank God! there are Monicas still in the world. If there were more, the world would be a better place.
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Montcalm and Wolfe
Montcalm and Wolfe by Francis Parkman, Jr.
Francis Parkman has been hailed as one of America’s great nineteenth century historians, along with William Prescott, John Lothrop Motley, George Bancroft, and Henry Adams. He is a master of narrative history and is most known for his “The Oregon Trail” and his seven volume work on the history of the French and English in North America. “Montcalm and Wolfe”, the seventh and last volume of the series, covers the conflict between England and France for supremacy in the New World from 1745 to 1884. The Seven Years War (the French and Indian War in the United States) is the denouement of this 200 year struggle with General Wolfe dying on the Plains of Abraham at the moment of victory.
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The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate
The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton
The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the “westering fever” of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846–1847, some of the emigrants resorted to cannibalism. Although this aspect of the tragedy has become synonymous with the Donner Party in the popular imagination, it actually was a minor part of the episode.
The author was about 4 at the time. The first part of the book accounts the tragic journey and rescue attempts; the last half are reminiscences of the child orphan, passed from family to family while growing up.
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