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Why Was Queen Victoria Such a Prude? …and other historical myths and follies by David Haviland
epub |eng | 2013-01-26 | Author:David Haviland [Haviland, David]

Chapter Six The Body Politic ‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.’ L. P. Hartley (1895-1972) What was unusual about the trial of Pope Formosus? The ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar June 30,2021 )
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Thomas Mitchell
epub | | 2010-01-27 | Author:Thomas Mitchell [Mitchell, Thomas]

( Category: American History June 29,2021 )
Complete Works of Joel Chandler Harris by Joel Chandler Harris
epub |eng | 2021-03-24 | Author:Joel Chandler Harris [Harris, Joel Chandler]

( Category: Philosophy June 29,2021 )
Science by Robert M. Macias
azw3 |eng | 2015-04-03 | Author:Robert M. Macias [Macias, Robert M.]

( Category: Action & Adventure Fiction June 29,2021 )
The Nervous Child [1919] by Hector Charles Cameron
epub | | 2009-11-15 | Author:Hector Charles Cameron [Cameron, Hector Charles & Lives, Blackmask]

CHAPTER VIII. NERVOUSNESS IN EARLY INFANCY We may now pass back to consider the nervous system of the child in infancy. There, too, from the moment of birth there are ...
( Category: Children's Biographies June 29,2021 )
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-08-17 | Author:James Weldon Johnson [Johnson, James Weldon]

VIII On the day following our night at the “Club” we slept until late in the afternoon; so late that beginning of search for work was entirely out of the ...
( Category: Historical Biographies June 28,2021 )
The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) by Salvador Dali
epub |eng | 2013-06-09 | Author:Salvador Dali [Dali, Salvador]

My father settled down to enjoy the sleep of the just. As for me—who knows what I was thinking?... But, as in the case of my “Parsifal,” it is better ...
( Category: Historical Biographies June 28,2021 )
Verses on Various Occasions by John Henry Newman
epub, azw3 |eng | 2021-01-06 | Author:John Henry Newman [Newman, John Henry]

Ye countless multitudes, content to bow To the soft thraldom of the marriage vow! I mark your haughty step, your froward gaze, Gems deck your hair, and silk your limbs ...
( Category: Christian Theology June 28,2021 )
Short Fiction by Gustave Flaubert
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-03-10 | Author:Gustave Flaubert [Flaubert, Gustave]

IV The Bird He was called Loulou. His body was green, his head blue, the tips of his wings were pink and his breast was golden. But he had the ...
( Category: World Literature June 28,2021 )
The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
epub, azw3 |eng | 2021-02-10 | Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan [Sheridan, Richard Brinsley]

Here’s to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here’s to the widow of fifty; Here’s to the flaunting extravagant quean, And here’s to the housewife that’s thrifty. Chorus. Let the toast ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies June 28,2021 )
Remember the Alamo by Barr Amelia Edith Huddleston
epub |eng | 2008-06-28 | Author:Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston [Huddleston, Barr, Amelia Edith]

The strong old Alamo Two hundred men, with rifles true, Shot down a thousand of the foe, And broke the triple ramparts through; And dropped the flag as black as ...
( Category: American History June 27,2021 )
File No. 113 by Émile Gaboriau
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2019-07-17 | Author:Émile Gaboriau [Gaboriau, Émile]

XV Louis de Clameran, the second son of the marquis, was one of those self-controlled men who, beneath a cool, careless manner, conceal a fiery temperament, and ungovernable passions. All ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction June 27,2021 )
Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey
azw3, epub |eng | 2020-08-25 | Author:Lytton Strachey

III The Prince’s tri­umph was short-lived. A few weeks later, ow­ing to Palmer­ston’s in­flu­ence, the Gov­ern­ment was de­feated in the House, and Lord John resigned. Then, after a short in­ter­val, ...
( Category: Traveler & Explorer Biographies June 27,2021 )
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole by Matthew Henson
epub, azw3 |eng | 2021-03-22 | Author:Matthew Henson [Henson, Matthew]

XIII The supporting-parties begin to turn back. March 19: We left camp in a haze of bitter cold; the ice conditions about the same as the previous day; high rafters, ...
( Category: American History June 27,2021 )
Monsieur Lecoq by Émile Gaboriau
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-07-23 | Author:Émile Gaboriau [Gaboriau, Émile]

The most subtle observer would have supposed that Mlle. Blanche was experiencing the keenest emotion. One would have sworn that it was only by intense effort that she succeeded in ...
( Category: Literary Fiction June 27,2021 )

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