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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, Satire

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Fiction, Literature

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Historical Fiction

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...Canadian journalist William Jarvis' gently fictionalized work recounts many of the countless fascinating tales of the Klondike Gold Rush in Canada's Yukon. (Introduction by Cathy Barratt)...

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Historical Fiction, History

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...Henry Walton Bibb was born a slave. His father was white although his identity was not positively known. Bibb was separated from his mother at a very young age and hired out to other slave owners for most of his childhood. Al...

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Excerpt: The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume One, Containing Books I through VIII.

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...Vol. 1 The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume One, Containing Books I through VIII is a publicati... ...ctronic transmission, in any way. The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume One, Containing Books I through VIII, the Pennsylvan... ...ual opportunity University. 1749 THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING by Henry Fielding BOOK I CONTAINING AS MUCH OF THE BIRTH OF THE FOUNDLING AS I... ...eneral bill of fare to our whole The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding 3 entertainment, but shall likewise give the reader particu... ..., in the following work, adhered The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding 4 closely to one of the highest principles of the best cook... ...t never that incredulous hatred mentioned by Horace. It is by falling into fiction, therefore, that we generally offend against this rule, of desertin... ...h chapter of the Bathos, “The great art of all poetry is to mix truth with fiction, in order to join the credible with the surprizing.” For though e... ...which he had heard assigned. He concluded, therefore, that the whole was a fiction, and that Jones, of whom he had often from his correspondents heard...

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Excerpt: The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII.

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...Vol. 2 The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII is a publica... ...ctronic transmission, in any way. The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII , the Pennsyl... ... those which are composed of 373 The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding; Vol. II observation and reflection. Here I mean such imita... ...ry living wight.—MR. FRANCIS 374 The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding; Vol. II if the opinion just above cited be true, we cannot... ...re of knowledge at least, to 375 The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding; Vol. II affect the character of an historian, is as vain a... ...in real life, than the centaur, the chimera, or any other creature of mere fiction. But to let my reader into a secret, this knowledge of upper life, ...

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Psychology, Literature, Fiction

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Fiction, Politics, Economics/Political Economy

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...Sir Henry Morton Stanley is famously quoted for saying Dr Livingstone, i Presume?. Born in Wales, he migrated over to the United States at the age of 18, he eventually became an overseas correspondent for the New York Herald. In ...

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...Henry Augustin Beers (1847-?), native of Buffalo, NY and professor of English at Yale, with the help of John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Methodist bishop and first Chancellor of American University, has written a sweeping tho...

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...East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East during the parliamentary recess in 1883. Lucy was one of the most influential journalists of his day and, as Toby M.P., a noted humorist in Punch magazine. His acute ...

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...Henry Ossian Flipper--born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856--did not learn to read and write until just before the end of the Civil War. Once the war had ended, Flipper attended several schools showing a...

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...East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East in 1883, within two or three decades of the American Civil War, the Indian Mutiny and the end of Japan's isolation from the western world. Lucy was one of the most in...

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... Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775. This electronic book is a publication of The Pennsy... ...Manis, Senior Faculty Editor “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” by Patrick Henry is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...nic transmission, in any way. “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” by Patrick Henry, the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazl... ... an equal opportunity University. Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775. No man thinks more highly than I do of the patrio ... ...stron ger? Will it be the next week,or the next year? Will it be 4 Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty…” when we are totally disarmed, and when a Briti...

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...l as seasoned professional, Thinking as a Science is timeless classic. Through eleven chapters, the last being a descriptive, annotated bibliography, Henry Hazlitt systematically takes the step-by-step on the process of introducing logic and context into the thinking process. The rather long chapter on Reading and Thinking clarifies several notions on where one needs to un...

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Excerpt: A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau.

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...A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau Read to the citizens of Concord, Mass., Sunday Evening,... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...s an electronic transmission, in any way. A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classi... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry David Thoreau A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau Re... ...airie land, a hero should, by good rights, wear a citizen’s dress only. 5 Henry David Thoreau He did not go to the college called Harvard, good old A...

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Excerpt: Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau.

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...horeau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry David Thoreau Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau THE HISTORY OF THE A... ...navians. **An English authority on the culture of orchards and gardens. 5 Henry David Thoreau England, thence to America; and our Western emigrant is... ...tes fail to perceive,—just *The Roman goddess of fruit and fruit-trees. 7 Henry David Thoreau as we occupy the heaven of the gods without knowing it....

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Excerpt: Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau.

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Excerpt: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau

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...A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A ... ...lassics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State Universit... ...c transmission, in any way. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau , the Pennsylvania State Univer sity, Electronic Clas... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 HenryDavidThoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David... ...ris aquae, pro ripis litora pulsant. O VID, Met. I. 39 5 HenryDavidThoreau He confined the rivers within their sloping banks, Wh... ...the society we keep; to read only the serenely true; never statistics, nor fiction, nor news, nor reports, nor periodicals, but only great poems, and ... ...s testifies.” If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of t... ...ity was so rich. Give me an oppor tunity to live.” “You are the fact in a fiction,—you are the truth more strange and admirable than fiction. Consent... ...tion, such as some suppose, there is no instance. T o write a true work of fiction even, is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things m...

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Excerpt: Walking by Henry David Thoreau.

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...ocument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Waling by Henry David Thoreau , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Facul... ...ennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. Walking by Henry David Thoreau I WISH TO SPEAK A WORD FOR N ATURE, for absolut... ...oduce. Perchance, when, in the course of ages, American liberty has become a fiction of the past—as it is to some extent a fiction of the present— the...

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... State University is an equal opportunity university. This publication of “Henry David Thoreau’s ‘On the Duty of Civil Disobedi ence’” is part of The... ...Series, Jim Manis, faculty editor. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...lectronic transmission, in any way. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty E... ... is an equal opportunity University. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau 1849, original title: Resistance to Civil Goverment I ... ... statement as this in writ ing: “Know all men by these presents, that I, Henry Thoreau, do not wish to be regarded as a member of any society which ...

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Adventure, Economics/Political Economy, Fiction, Romance