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Pickman's Model is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in September 1926 and first published in the October 1927 issue of Weird Tales. The story revolves around a Bostonian painter named Richard Upton Pickman who creates horrifying images. His works are brilliantly executed, but so graphic that...

Ian Hamilton's March is a book written by Winston Churchill. It is a description of his experiences accompanying the British army during the Second Boer War, continuing after the events described in London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

Excerpt: "Toward the close of a fine evening in the month of October, 1779, the most inquisitive among the inhabitants of the small town of Fort Louis, had assembled on the point of land immediately opposite to that on which stands the city of Lorient. The object which attracted their attention,...

Karl August Bleibtreu (* 13. Januar 1859 in Berlin; † 30. Januar 1928 in Locarno) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller und Sohn des bekannten Schlachtenmalers Georg Bleibtreu. Karl Bleibtreu galt als wichtiger Vertreter des Naturalismus der deutschen Literatur. Dies vertrat er als Redakteur, Hersteller,...

Karl August Bleibtreu (* 13. Januar 1859 in Berlin; † 30. Januar 1928 in Locarno) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller und Sohn des bekannten Schlachtenmalers Georg Bleibtreu. Karl Bleibtreu galt als wichtiger Vertreter des Naturalismus der deutschen Literatur. Dies vertrat er als Redakteur, Hersteller,...

Karl August Bleibtreu (* 13. Januar 1859 in Berlin; † 30. Januar 1928 in Locarno) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller und Sohn des bekannten Schlachtenmalers Georg Bleibtreu. Karl Bleibtreu galt als wichtiger Vertreter des Naturalismus der deutschen Literatur. Dies vertrat er als Redakteur, Hersteller,...

Karl August Bleibtreu (* 13. Januar 1859 in Berlin; † 30. Januar 1928 in Locarno) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller und Sohn des bekannten Schlachtenmalers Georg Bleibtreu. Karl Bleibtreu galt als wichtiger Vertreter des Naturalismus der deutschen Literatur. Dies vertrat er als Redakteur, Hersteller,...

For some people, gardening is a passion. Some people garden just as a hobby. For still others, it?s a way to feed their families. We think Shirley Mac Claine's character in "Steel Magnolias" said it best. "Because that's what Southern women do, we wear funny hats and grow things in...

A compulsive account of just what it was like for the thousands who volunteered in 1914. A brutal reminder of what they suffered. (Amazon)

Eighteen Months in the War Zone - The Record of a Woman's Work on the Western Front.

Thoughts and quips from Germany's most prolific polymath - 590 in all - plus a bonus section of wonderful reflections on Mother Nature. Also features critiques on writers from Kalidas to Shakespeare. (Goodreads)

Short excerpt: "Were, then, these Switzers free? Free, these opulent burghers in their little pent-up towns—free, those poor devils on their rocks and crags? What is it that man cannot be made to believe, especially when he cherishes in his heart the memory of some old tale of marvel? Once,...

Excerpt: "PREFACE The prevailing taste of the public for anecdote has been censured and ridiculed by critics who aspire to the character of superior wisdom; but if we consider it in a proper point of view, this taste is an incontestable proof of the good sense and profoundly philosophic temper...

Patrick MacGill (24 December 1889 – November 1963) was an Irish journalist, poet and novelist, known as "The Navvy Poet" because he had worked as a navvy before he began writing. This work is a collection of essays describing an Irish enlisted man's experience of the training leading up to his departure to fight in the first world war. (Excerpt from Goodreads)