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The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett’s finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achievement.” Despite James’s diminutives, the novel remains a classic. Because it is loosely structured, many critics view the book not as a novel, but a series of sketches; however, its structure is unified through both setting and theme. Jewett herself felt that her strengths as a writer lay not in plot development or dramatic tension, but in character development. Indeed, she determined early in her career to preserve a disappearing way of life, and her novel can be read as a study of the effects of isolation and hardship on the inhabitants who lived in the decaying fishing villages along the Maine coast. (summary from Gutenberg e-text)...

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Elia Peattie was an outspoken journalist and social activist who gave her attention to such areas as orphanages, charity hospitals, the Wounded Knee massacre, capital punishment, and the like. The Precipice is partially based on the life of her close friend Katherine Ostrander, a social work pioneer, and tells of the evolution of Kate Barrington after her college years and with it the evolution of society as a whole and women in particular in pre-World War I America. Friendship, romance, betrayal, searchings of the soul, dreams, and shattered hopes -- all the stuff of life -- bring Kate to full realization of her true self. (Introduction by Mary Schneider)...

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With strong focus in history, this books presents my travels to Europe, Asia, Canada and Australia.

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"Time is of the essence. And on a timeline of this journey, specific dates have been drawn. As great distances have been covered, it has taken a long time for this book to be written. Snapshots started as a diary, but evolved over time into a book. Dynamic in its own right, at the end of each traverse, another begins anew and is recorded in the travelogue. "...

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Introduction Chapter 1 Europe Musings of the Muses: Italy Rome Florence Venice La Ville-Lumiere: France Paris Chateau De Versailles Divonne-les-Bains Chiming clocks: Geneva To be or not to be: England London Brighton Moors’ Last Sigh: Spain Granada Wien on Vespa: Austria Vienna Medieval Magyars: Hungary Budapest Chapter 2 North America Maple Crunch: Canada Bolton, Ontario Niagara, Ontario Montreal Quebec City Calgary Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Chapter 3 Flying kangaroo: Australia Sydney Brisbane Cairns Chapter 4 Asia Rainbow nation: Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Where east meets the west: Singapore The land of entwined rivers: Bangladesh Dhaka city Azimpura Dayera Sharif Bogra Chittagong Patenga sea beach Cox’s Bazaar Rangamati Byzid Bostami Sylhet Khulna Jessore Luminous Lumbini: India Kolkata Conclusion...

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Πρόκειται για μία νουβέλα της Ιταλίδας συγγραφέως Ματίλντε Σεράο (1856-1927). It's a novel by the Italian author Matilde Serao (1856-1927), with the title "Giovannino or Death"....

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A novel on Knyaz Alexander of Battenberg, the first prince of modern Bulgaria

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Крачи в редиците на австрийската войска, всяка крачка отхвърля някоя мисъл. Не от вчера е без Kняжеството, не от вчера е в изгнание. Княз без Княжество, „Да имаш и да нямаш!“ - както често повтаряше Мари. Изгнание къде? За какво изгнание става дума? Изгнание в света, в който е израснал? Изгнание в родното? След като си разбрал, че да си чужденец повече ти приляга? Единствено Йохана му помага да не е в изгнание от собствения си живот. Понякога и това се случва – минаваш в изгнание от живота си, единствения ти, а после време няма. Един безличен субект, загубил името си нейде по пътя. Пътят, по който марширува граф Хартенау, не се разклонява в хиляда посоки, та да се чуди кой път да хване, като в България. „Който и път да хванеш, все ще си отвян на бял кон - бе мнението на чистачката на двореца му в България. - Тъй че няма какво да му мислиш толкова.“ Чистачката не владееше етикета и си му говореше на „ти“ и на „мойто момче“....

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A novel on ancient Thrace

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​概述 是一部精彩萬分的懸疑諜戰網路文學，故事之所以精彩，除了人物塑造較為成功之外，關鍵在於本書的時代背景：1950年6月，朝鮮戰爭爆發，美國出兵朝鮮，杜魯門下令第七艦隊進駐臺灣海峽。 故事就是在這一歷史關鍵轉捩點鋪展開來的，局勢對當時的國民黨非常不利，五月舟山、海南相繼淪陷，若戰事無法繼續扭轉，臺灣就岌岌可危了。山雨欲來風滿樓，此刻的臺灣島內民眾要求反腐消除積弊的聲浪此起彼伏，蔣總裁為了挽回民心，同年下令槍斃了陳儀，把228事件的歷史罪責都歸咎於陳儀一人。 為了挽救瀕臨滅亡的國民黨政權，蔣建豐結合當年自己在上海打老虎時期的失敗教訓，重新組建起了一支鐵血救國會，目的是希望鐵血救國會能夠在香港反腐緝私事務中發揮積極作用，找到國民黨內部大老虎們在香港走私洗錢的確鑿證據，自己也好借此機會在島內開展整頓黨務工作，從而肅清黨內的腐敗分子和內奸，淨化黨員隊伍。唯有如此，臺灣島內新的幣值改革才有成功的一線生機。 為了推行新的幣值改革，鐵血救國會不惜遠赴香港搜集情報，然而一場看不見的血雨腥風正在等待著他們，在朝鮮戰爭疑雲密佈下，各路人馬在香港這座彈丸之地粉墨登場，展開了一場你死我活的殊死較量。 鐵血救國會香港出師不利，梁複生雖大難不死卻身負重傷，幸運的是撿回一條性命，為了完成建豐先生的囑託，梁複生重新披掛上陣，並打入孚中公司內部，在探訪中發現一個驚人的密室，密室裏不僅關押著虞時英，還有留在大陸的「一0六」地倉財寶，與此同時隱蔽戰線鬥爭日趨激烈，雙方互相派出重量級的人物來到香港，擺出了一副決戰態勢，梁複生和他的同仁們將會面臨怎麼樣的命運？藏匿在孚中公司的地寶又會花落誰家？香港搶救學人計畫是否會化為泡影？這些故事即將拉開大幕。 ...

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​概述 是一部精彩萬分的懸疑諜戰網路文學，故事之所以精彩，除了人物塑造較為成功之外，關鍵在於本書的時代背景：1950年6月，朝鮮戰爭爆發，美國出兵朝鮮，杜魯門下令第七艦隊進駐臺灣海峽。 故事就是在這一歷史關鍵轉捩點鋪展開來的，局勢對當時的國民黨非常不利，五月舟山、海南相繼淪陷，若戰事無法繼續扭轉，臺灣就岌岌可危了。山雨欲來風滿樓，此刻的臺灣島內民眾要求反腐消除積弊的聲浪此起彼伏，蔣總裁為了挽回民心，同年下令槍斃了陳儀，把228事件的歷史罪責都歸咎於陳儀一人。 為了挽救瀕臨滅亡的國民黨政權，蔣建豐結合當年自己在上海打老虎時期的失敗教訓，重新組建起了一支鐵血救國會，目的是希望鐵血救國會能夠在香港反腐緝私事務中發揮積極作用，找到國民黨內部大老虎們在香港走私洗錢的確鑿證據，自己也好借此機會在島內開展整頓黨務工作，從而肅清黨內的腐敗分子和內奸，淨化黨員隊伍。唯有如此，臺灣島內新的幣值改革才有成功的一線生機。 為了推行新的幣值改革，鐵血救國會不惜遠赴香港搜集情報，然而一場看不見的血雨腥風正在等待著他們，在朝鮮戰爭疑雲密佈下，各路人馬在香港這座彈丸之地粉墨登場，展開了一場你死我活的殊死較量。 鐵血救國會香港出師不利，梁複生雖大難不死卻身負重傷，幸運的是撿回一條性命，為了完成建豐先生的囑託，梁複生重新披掛上陣，並打入孚中公司內部，在探訪中發現一個驚人的密室，密室裏不僅關押著虞時英，還有留在大陸的「一0六」地倉財寶，與此同時隱蔽戰線鬥爭日趨激烈，雙方互相派出重量級的人物來到香港，擺出了一副決戰態勢，梁複生和他的同仁們將會面臨怎麼樣的命運？藏匿在孚中公司的地寶又會花落誰家？香港搶救學人計畫是否會化為泡影？這些故事即將拉開大幕。 ...

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目錄 概述 主要人物介紹 第一節：蔣建豐驅車探病房，謝穆瀾病榻思情人 第二節：前線戰事淪陷頻傳，重整幣值事在人為 第三節：梁複生掀怒罵狂潮，蔣建豐談孤臣孽子 第四節：行轅會議眾說紛紜，出兵朝鮮意見不合 第五節：謝國棟后海逢玉英，白髮紅顏續寫佳話 第六節：精銳部隊蓄勢待發，以戰養戰計畫泡湯 第七節：梁複生抒鬱勃之氣，蔣建豐論黃埔精神 第八節：謝梁二人喜結良緣，訓練中心開筵設酒 第九節：謝穆瀾枕邊鶯聲泣露，梁複生燈下驗對槍傷 第十節：徐寅貶謫基隆監獄，CC派系勢如危卵 第十一節：梁複生冷嘲熱諷徐寅，蔣建豐過問行總舞弊 第十二節：黃蒲誠甄別洪門中人，蔣建豐燈下閱批點將 第十三節：前線急缺運輸工具，謝老率眾戰略南下 第十四節：謝國棟感慨武裝和平，梁複生一行劈波斬浪 第十五節：宋子亮詫異戲園突訪，謝國棟設計巧獻金條 第十六節：宋子亮攜美眷參加晚會，戰鬥同盟醞釀綁架計畫 第十七節：壯漢夜襲鐵血救國會，謝穆瀾孤膽勇奪手槍 第十八節：梁複生損兵折將受阻香港，蔣建豐摘埴索塗臨危受命 第十九節：鐵血救國會全軍覆沒，謝穆瀾為愛命喪黃泉 第二十節：梁複生折臂大難不死，黃蒲誠奉命前來探望 第二十一節：鈞座邀黃蒲誠等人共商國是，承諾事成授予二位上將軍銜 第二十二節：梁複生潛入孚中一探虛實，雅敘閣二記者酒後吐真言 第二十三節：齊慕棠彙報孚中新聞要案，劉雲下軍棋談論時局莫測 第二十四節：密室驚現地寶線索，時英不幸中箭歸西 第二十五節：藏匿地寶引發激辯，老者揭秘識破天驚 第二十六節：虞時英魂欲葬榆叢，徐寶琴劫後又逢生 第二十七節：粱復生重逢徐寶琴，黃蒲誠吃醋心生恨 第二十八節：黃埔誠單刀赴會，劉云談荊軻刺秦 第二十九節：粱復生為愛禁慾，徐寶琴地窖逃生  第三十節：梁復生辯統制經濟，劉云駁斥自由經濟  第三十一節：黃蒲誠洩密地寶實況，徐寶琴脫逃禀報案情 第三十二節：大災變颶海嘯侵襲，浪濤盡何日君再來...

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​概述 是一部精彩萬分的懸疑諜戰網路文學，故事之所以精彩，除了人物塑造較為成功之外，關鍵在於本書的時代背景：1950年6月，朝鮮戰爭爆發，美國出兵朝鮮，杜魯門下令第七艦隊進駐臺灣海峽。 故事就是在這一歷史關鍵轉捩點鋪展開來的，局勢對當時的國民黨非常不利，五月舟山、海南相繼淪陷，若戰事無法繼續扭轉，臺灣就岌岌可危了。山雨欲來風滿樓，此刻的臺灣島內民眾要求反腐消除積弊的聲浪此起彼伏，蔣總裁為了挽回民心，同年下令槍斃了陳儀，把228事件的歷史罪責都歸咎於陳儀一人。 為了挽救瀕臨滅亡的國民黨政權，蔣建豐結合當年自己在上海打老虎時期的失敗教訓，重新組建起了一支鐵血救國會，目的是希望鐵血救國會能夠在香港反腐緝私事務中發揮積極作用，找到國民黨內部大老虎們在香港走私洗錢的確鑿證據，自己也好借此機會在島內開展整頓黨務工作，從而肅清黨內的腐敗分子和內奸，淨化黨員隊伍。唯有如此，臺灣島內新的幣值改革才有成功的一線生機。 為了推行新的幣值改革，鐵血救國會不惜遠赴香港搜集情報，然而一場看不見的血雨腥風正在等待著他們，在朝鮮戰爭疑雲密佈下，各路人馬在香港這座彈丸之地粉墨登場，展開了一場你死我活的殊死較量。 鐵血救國會香港出師不利，梁複生雖大難不死卻身負重傷，幸運的是撿回一條性命，為了完成建豐先生的囑託，梁複生重新披掛上陣，並打入孚中公司內部，在探訪中發現一個驚人的密室，密室裏不僅關押著虞時英，還有留在大陸的「一0六」地倉財寶，與此同時隱蔽戰線鬥爭日趨激烈，雙方互相派出重量級的人物來到香港，擺出了一副決戰態勢，梁複生和他的同仁們將會面臨怎麼樣的命運？藏匿在孚中公司的地寶又會花落誰家？香港搶救學人計畫是否會化為泡影？這些故事即將拉開大幕。 ...

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​概述 是一部精彩萬分的懸疑諜戰網路文學，故事之所以精彩，除了人物塑造較為成功之外，關鍵在於本書的時代背景：1950年6月，朝鮮戰爭爆發，美國出兵朝鮮，杜魯門下令第七艦隊進駐臺灣海峽。 故事就是在這一歷史關鍵轉捩點鋪展開來的，局勢對當時的國民黨非常不利，五月舟山、海南相繼淪陷，若戰事無法繼續扭轉，臺灣就岌岌可危了。山雨欲來風滿樓，此刻的臺灣島內民眾要求反腐消除積弊的聲浪此起彼伏，蔣總裁為了挽回民心，同年下令槍斃了陳儀，把228事件的歷史罪責都歸咎於陳儀一人。 為了挽救瀕臨滅亡的國民黨政權，蔣建豐結合當年自己在上海打老虎時期的失敗教訓，重新組建起了一支鐵血救國會，目的是希望鐵血救國會能夠在香港反腐緝私事務中發揮積極作用，找到國民黨內部大老虎們在香港走私洗錢的確鑿證據，自己也好借此機會在島內開展整頓黨務工作，從而肅清黨內的腐敗分子和內奸，淨化黨員隊伍。唯有如此，臺灣島內新的幣值改革才有成功的一線生機。 為了推行新的幣值改革，鐵血救國會不惜遠赴香港搜集情報，然而一場看不見的血雨腥風正在等待著他們，在朝鮮戰爭疑雲密佈下，各路人馬在香港這座彈丸之地粉墨登場，展開了一場你死我活的殊死較量。 鐵血救國會香港出師不利，梁複生雖大難不死卻身負重傷，幸運的是撿回一條性命，為了完成建豐先生的囑託，梁複生重新披掛上陣，並打入孚中公司內部，在探訪中發現一個驚人的密室，密室裏不僅關押著虞時英，還有留在大陸的「一0六」地倉財寶，與此同時隱蔽戰線鬥爭日趨激烈，雙方互相派出重量級的人物來到香港，擺出了一副決戰態勢，梁複生和他的同仁們將會面臨怎麼樣的命運？藏匿在孚中公司的地寶又會花落誰家？香港搶救學人計畫是否會化為泡影？這些故事即將拉開大幕。 ...

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目錄 概述 主要人物介紹 第一節：蔣建豐驅車探病房，謝穆瀾病榻思情人 第二節：前線戰事淪陷頻傳，重整幣值事在人為 第三節：梁複生掀怒罵狂潮，蔣建豐談孤臣孽子 第四節：行轅會議眾說紛紜，出兵朝鮮意見不合 第五節：謝國棟后海逢玉英，白髮紅顏續寫佳話 第六節：精銳部隊蓄勢待發，以戰養戰計畫泡湯 第七節：梁複生抒鬱勃之氣，蔣建豐論黃埔精神 第八節：謝梁二人喜結良緣，訓練中心開筵設酒 第九節：謝穆瀾枕邊鶯聲泣露，梁複生燈下驗對槍傷 第十節：徐寅貶謫基隆監獄，CC派系勢如危卵 第十一節：梁複生冷嘲熱諷徐寅，蔣建豐過問行總舞弊 第十二節：黃蒲誠甄別洪門中人，蔣建豐燈下閱批點將 第十三節：前線急缺運輸工具，謝老率眾戰略南下 第十四節：謝國棟感慨武裝和平，梁複生一行劈波斬浪 第十五節：宋子亮詫異戲園突訪，謝國棟設計巧獻金條 第十六節：宋子亮攜美眷參加晚會，戰鬥同盟醞釀綁架計畫 第十七節：壯漢夜襲鐵血救國會，謝穆瀾孤膽勇奪手槍 第十八節：梁複生損兵折將受阻香港，蔣建豐摘埴索塗臨危受命 第十九節：鐵血救國會全軍覆沒，謝穆瀾為愛命喪黃泉 第二十節：梁複生折臂大難不死，黃蒲誠奉命前來探望 第二十一節：鈞座邀黃蒲誠等人共商國是，承諾事成授予二位上將軍銜 第二十二節：梁複生潛入孚中一探虛實，雅敘閣二記者酒後吐真言 第二十三節：齊慕棠彙報孚中新聞要案，劉雲下軍棋談論時局莫測 第二十四節：密室驚現地寶線索，時英不幸中箭歸西 第二十五節：藏匿地寶引發激辯，老者揭秘識破天驚 第二十六節：虞時英魂欲葬榆叢，徐寶琴劫後又逢生 第二十七節：粱復生重逢徐寶琴，黃蒲誠吃醋心生恨 第二十八節：黃埔誠單刀赴會，劉云談荊軻刺秦 第二十九節：粱復生為愛禁慾，徐寶琴地窖逃生  第三十節：梁復生辯統制經濟，劉云駁斥自由經濟  第三十一節：黃蒲誠洩密地寶實況，徐寶琴脫逃禀報案情 第三十二節：大災變颶海嘯侵襲，浪濤盡何日君再來...

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A story about the Irish, just before the onset of the famine of 1847, with all the color and dialogue of a man who lived it. (Summary by JCarson)

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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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In this autobiographic novel, an aging man reflects on his past. We are witness to the relationships he has along the way, his mistakes, and finally- in the most unexpected and honorable way- the sudden developement of his belief in god. (Summary by Stav Nisser)...

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Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a lawyer, politician, actor, lover, and buffoon lead his enemies to call him Scaramouche (also called Scaramuccia, a roguish character in the commedia dell'arte), but he impresses many with his elegant orations and precision swordsmanship. The later film version includes one of the longest, and many believe, best swashbuckling sword-fighting scenes ever filmed.The novel has a memorable start (Book I: The Robe, Chapter I, 'The Republican'): He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony. His very paternity was obscure, although the village of Gavrillacs had long since dispelled the cloud of mystery that hung about it. (Summary by Gord)...

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Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim Crow laws on African Americans and white Americans of the South. Many of Chesnutt's characters are of mixed-race ancestry which sets them apart for a specific yet degrading kind of treatment from blacks and whites. These stories examine particularly how life in the South was informed through a legacy of slavery and Reconstruction—how members of the “old dominion” desperately struggled to breath life into the corpse of an antebellum caste system that no longer defined the path and direction in which this country was headed. (Introduction by James K. White)....

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Atlantis: The Antediluvian World is a book published during 1882 by Minnesota populist politician Ignatius L. Donnelly, who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during 1831. Donnelly considered Plato's account of Atlantis as largely factual and attempted to establish that all known ancient civilizations were descended from this supposed lost land. Many of its theories are the source of many modern-day concepts we have about Atlantis, like the civilization and technology beyond its time, the origins of all present races and civilizations, a civil war between good and evil, etc....

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Volume I of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This first volume comprises the discovery, colonization, founding, and early years of the United States of America, describing history for children and young adults in an exiting and novel manner. (Summary by Kalynda)...

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Three Soldiers is a 1920 novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First World War, and remains a classic of the realist war novel genre. H.L. Mencken, then practicing primarily as an American literary critic, praised the book in the pages of the Smart Set. Until Three Soldiers is forgotten and fancy achieves its inevitable victory over fact, no war story can be written in the United States without challenging comparison with it--and no story that is less meticulously true will stand up to it. At one blast it disposed of oceans of romance and blather. It changed the whole tone of American opinion about the war; it even changed the recollections of actual veterans of the war. They saw, no doubt, substantially what Dos Passos saw, but it took his bold realism to disentangle their recollections from the prevailing buncombe and sentimentality. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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This is volume 4 chapter 22 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resume of the history of England up until the Stuart kings and then starts to delve into a little more detail. Macaulay is primarily fascinated by ending of any claim to divine right of kings and the growing role of Parliament in the governing of the country. He sees the accession of William and Mary (Dutch, Protestant royalty) to the British throne as a key moment in the history of the British Isles. This is a book delightful for the literary gifts of the author and intriguing for his view of 18th century English and world politics. (Jim Mowatt)...

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This is a first hand account of the Armenian Genocide written by a Syrian who had been a Turkish official for three and a half years. His accounts tell of the worst of humanity, and also of the noblest. The noble include families who courageously support each other in the face of death, and Turks who refuse to follow orders to kill, knowing that they shall be executed themselves for their defiance. The genocide occurred just before and during World War I, and estimates as to the number of people murdered range from one to one and a half million. (Introduction by Margaret)...

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De Vliegende Hollander is een spookschip dat volgens de overlevering voor eeuwig in de buurt van Kaap de Goede Hoop rondvaart. De sage vertelt dat dit schip op Paasochtend van het jaar 1676 uitvoer, waarna het verdween in een storm. P. Visser vertelt het hele verhaal. (inleiding van Wikipedia)...

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There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history, that he may know, in brief, what it was in their characters or their doings which has given them so widely-extended a fame. Consequently, great historical names alone are selected; and it has been the writer's aim to present the prominent and leading traits in their characters, and all the important events in their lives, in a bold and free manner, and yet in the plain and simple language which is so obviously required in works which aim at permanent and practical usefulness. This volume is dedicated to William the Conqueror. (Summary from the preface of the book)...

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This is a letter written from prison in 1897 by Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, in which he recounts how he came to be in prison and charts his spiritual development. (summary by AdamH)...

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