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Songs of a Sourdough by Robert W. Service
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-07-02 | Author:Robert W. Service

Till I came to the marge of Lake Le­barge, and a derel­ict there lay; It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the ...
( Category: Poetry September 16,2019 )
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzō
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-01-24 | Author:Okakura Kakuzō

Oth­ers, like Ko­bori-En­shiu, sought for a dif­fer­ent ef­fect. En­shiu said the idea of the garden path was to be found in the fol­low­ing verses: “A cluster of sum­mer trees, A ...
( Category: Coffee & Tea September 16,2019 )
Bulfinch’s Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-07-12 | Author:Thomas Bulfinch

( Category: Arts & Photography September 16,2019 )
A Yankee in Canada by Henry David Thoreau
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-01-05 | Author:Henry David Thoreau

IV The Walls of Quebec After spend­ing the night at a farm­house in Château-Richer, about a dozen miles north­east of Que­bec, we set out on our re­turn to the city. ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays September 16,2019 )
South! by Ernest Shackleton
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-01-16 | Author:Ernest Shackleton

Our cove lay a little in­side the south­ern head­land of King Haakon Bay. A nar­row break in the cliffs, which were about a hun­dred feet high at this point, formed ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 16,2019 )
Poetry by Wilfred Owen
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-05-14 | Author:Wilfred Owen

He’d seen men shoot their hands, on night patrol, Their people never knew. Yet they were vile. “Death sooner than dis­hon­our, that’s the style!” So Father said. One dawn, our ...
( Category: Movements & Periods September 16,2019 )
The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-04-08 | Author:Daisy Ashford

VI High Life Mr Sal­teena awoke next morn­ing in his small but pleas­ant room. It was done in green and white with Mo­na­grams on the toilit set. He had a ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs September 16,2019 )
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2019-03-31 | Author:Christopher Marlowe

Re-enter the Fri­ars to sing the Dirge. 1st Friar Come, brethren, let’s about our busi­ness with good de­vo­tion. They sing. Cursed be he that stole away his Holi­ness’ meat from ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays September 16,2019 )
The Diary by Samuel Pepys
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-08-21 | Author:Samuel Pepys

29th (King’s birth­day and Res­taur­a­tion day). Waked with the ringing of the bells all over the towne; so up be­fore five o’clock, and to the of­fice, where we met, and ...
( Category: Authors September 16,2019 )
King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-04-26 | Author:H. Rider Haggard

( Category: Historical September 16,2019 )
Three Lives by Unknown
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-02-28 | Author:Unknown

“Please come to me, Jeff.” Me­lanc­tha wrote back for her an­swer. Jeff went very slowly to Me­lanc­tha, glad as he was, still to be go­ing to her. Me­lanc­tha came, very ...
( Category: Arts & Photography September 16,2019 )
To Feel the Music by Neil Young
epub |eng | 2019-07-01 | Author:Neil Young

COST AND TIME? As part of the preparation for the Kickstarter campaign, I needed to provide a delivery date and pricing for the players offered. Ship dates are notoriously hard ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians September 16,2019 )
Carl Llewellyn Weschcke by Melanie Marquis
epub |eng | 2018-08-24 | Author:Melanie Marquis

[contents] * * * 190. Smith, “Space Feats Stimulate Occult.” 191. Knoblauch, “Speaking of Occult … ” 192. Schlaver, “The Carol Thompson Murder Case.” 193. Pickwick Books advertisement, Los Angeles ...
( Category: Wicca September 16,2019 )
Where the Light Enters by Sara Donati
epub |eng | 2019-09-09 | Author:Sara Donati

30 SOPHIE, WHO HAD thought she would dedicate her life to medicine and thus never considered what it meant to be mistress of her own household, now found herself in ...
( Category: Family Saga September 15,2019 )
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah: Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
epub |eng | 2000-11-19 | Author:Sir Richard Francis Burton [Burton, Sir Richard Francis]

[FN#1] Jabal Nur, or Hira, has been mentioned before. Jabal Saur rises at some distance to the South of Meccah, and contains the celebrated cave in which Mohammed and Abu ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs September 15,2019 )

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