The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. It discusses his time spent in slavery, serving primarily on galleys, documents his attempts at becoming an independent...
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Auteur: Eastman, Charles AlexanderSommaire:Based in part upon the author's own observations and personal knowledge, this book aimed to set forth the status and outlook of the North American Indian. Eastman addressed issues such as Indian schools, health, government policy...
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Auteur: Johnson, SamuelSommaire:Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah, and the much-travelled philosopher Imlac. Their journey takes them to Egypt, where they study the various...
- Auteur: Pohl, Frederik
- Auteur: Drummond, HenrySommaire:
The spiritual classic The Greatest Thing In the World is a trenchant and tender analysis of Christian love as set forth in the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians. The other addresses speak to other aspects of Christian life and thought...
- Auteur: White, Ellen Gould HarmonSommaire:
Excerpt: To every one of us comes at times a longing to know more of the great controversy. How did the controversy begin? or was it always here? What elements enter into its awfully complex aspect? How am I related to it? what is my...
- Auteur: Talmage, James E. (James Edward)Sommaire:
The Great Apostasy Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History is a 1909 book by James E. Talmage that summarizes the Great Apostasy from the viewpoint of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)....
- Auteur: Walpole, Hugh, SirSommaire:
Toying with the distinctions between reader and narrator, author and character, imagination and perception, Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole's The Golden Scarecrow, in nine chapters, presents nine stories of nine children, united by...
- Auteur: Montgomery, L. M.Sommaire:
Sara Stanley, the Story Girl, returns to join the King children in publishing their own local magazine to entertain the town of Carlisle.
- Auteur: Galt, Katherine KeeneSommaire:
Popular children's book, from the Girl Scouts series, first published in 1921
- Auteur: CRANE, WalterSommaire:
The Frog Prince; Princess Belle-Etoile; Aladdin and the wonderful lamp.
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Auteur: MURRAY, AndrewSommaire:If you were put on trial for being a Christian, would you be convicted? Christians have asked themselves this question, or ones like it, for millennia. In his book, The Deeper Christian Life, Andrew Murray helps us come to grips with...
- Auteur: Pohl, FrederikSommaire:
Just as medicine is not a science, but rather an art--a device, practised in a scientific manner, in its best manifestations--time-travel stories are not science fiction. Time-travel, however, has become acceptable to science fiction...
- Auteur: Chesnutt, Charles W.Sommaire:
Contents: The goophered grapevine.--Po' Sandy.--Mars Jeem's nightmare.--The conjurer's revenge.--Sis' Becky's pickaninny.--The gray wolf's ha'nt.--Hot-Foot Hannibal. Note these stories were written...
- Auteur: Mathiews, Franklin K.Sommaire:
Contents: The great big man / O. Johnson -- A twilight adventure / M.D. Post -- Tad Sheldon, second class scout / J.F. Wilson -- The red-headed league / A.C. Doyle -- The ransom of Red Chief / O. Henry -- The honk-honk breed / S.E....
- Auteur: FORT, CharlesSommaire:
The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort (first edition 1919). Dealing with various types of anomalous phenomena including UFOs, strange falls of both organic and inorganic materials from...
- Auteur: WHITE, Stewart EdwardSommaire:
The Blazed Trail is the story of early lumbermen in the northern woods of Michigan. The novel portrays the challenges faced by the workers focusing on one, Harry Thorpe, as he endeavors to be successful though completely unskilled when...
- Auteur: Talmage, James E. (James Edward)Sommaire:
Smith's "Articles of Faith" became part of the LDS Church's scriptural canon in 1880 as part of the Pearl of Great Price. In 1891, when the First Presidency of the LDS Church asked Talmage to produce a work of...
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Auteur: REED, JohnSommaire:"Ten Days That Shook the World" is American journalist and socialist John Reed's first-hand account of the Russian October Revolution of 1917. While it is intended as an impartial and unbiased historical account, by Reed...
- Auteur: Leinster, MurraySommaire:
Bors felt as if he'd been hit over the head. This was ridiculous! He'd planned and carried out the destruction of that warship because the information of its existence and location was verified by a magnetometer. But, if he...