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Cover of Bay: a Book of Poems
by D. H. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic poetry. According to Wikipedia: "David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 2 March 1930) was an English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. In them,...
Cover of Goethe: 8 Dramen
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Language: German
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Eight plays in the original German: Die Aufgeregten, Egmont, Faust, Goetz von Berlichingen, Iphigenie, Die Mitschuldigen, Die Naturliche Tochter, and Torquato Tasso. Wikipedia: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (* 28. August 1749 in Frankfurt am Main; 22. März 1832 in Weimar), geadelt 1782, war ein deutscher...
Cover of Theodore Roosevelt and His Time: a Chronicle of the Progressive Movement
by Harold Howland
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 January 6, 1919), also known as T.R., and to the public (but never to friends and intimates) as Teddy, was the 26th President of the United States. A leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Party, he was a Governor of New York...
Cover of Also Sprach Zarathustra: ein Buch für Alle und Keinen
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: German
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 August 25, 1900) was a nineteenth-century German philosopher and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive German language style and displaying...
Cover of The Battle of the Strong, Canadian novel
by Gilbert Parker
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet PC (November 23, 1862 September 6, 1932), known as Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician, was born at Camden East, Addington, Ontario, the son of Captain J. Parker, R.A... The best of his novels are those in which...
Cover of Sanskrit Epics: The Mahabharata and The Ramayan
by anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: The Ramayana is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is ascribed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smti), considered to be itihāsa. The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India and Nepal, the other being the Mahabharata. It depicts the duties...
Cover of Parsifal: Story and Analysis of Wagner's Great Opera
by H. R. Hawreis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813, Leipzig, Germany 13 February 1883, Venice, Italy) was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas", as they were later called). Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner...
Cover of The Admirable Tinker: Child of the World
by Edgar Jepson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Edgar Alfred Jepson (1863 - 1938) was an English writer, principally of mainstream adventure and detective fiction, but also of some supernatural and fantasy stories that are better remembered. He used a pseudonym R. Edison Page for some of his many short stories, collaborating...
Cover of The Seats of the Mighty
by Gilbert Parker
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet PC (November 23, 1862 September 6, 1932), known as Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician, was born at Camden East, Addington, Ontario, the son of Captain J. Parker, R.A... The best of his novels are those in which...
Cover of History of Modern Philosophy from Nicholas of Cusa to the Present Time (1893)
by Richard Falckenberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

First published in 1893. According to the translator's preface: "The aim of this translation is the same as that of the original work. Each is the outcome of experience in university instruction in philosophy, and is intended to furnish a manual which shall be at once scientific and popular, one to stand...
Cover of The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea, being the narrative of Portuguese and Spanish discoveries in the Autralasian Regions between the years 1492-1606
by George Collingridge de Toucey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

First published in 1906. According to the Preface: "Of the many books which have been published on subjects relating to Australia and Australian History, I am not aware of any, since my late friend, Mr. R. H. Major's introduction to his valuable work, "Early Voyages to Terra Australis," which has attempted...
Cover of Among the Sioux (1906), a story of the twin cities and the two Dakotas
by R. J. Creswell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples. They are often also referred to as Native Americans, First Nations, Amerigine, and by Christopher Columbus' geographical...
Cover of Donovan Pasha and Some People of Egypt, all four volumes
by Gilbert Parker
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic collection of short stories. All four volumes. According to Wikipedia: "Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet PC (November 23, 1862 September 6, 1932), known as Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician, was born at Camden East, Addington, Ontario, the son of Captain...
Cover of Mrs. Falchion
by Gilbert Parker
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet PC (November 23, 1862 September 6, 1932), known as Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician, was born at Camden East, Addington, Ontario, the son of Captain J. Parker, R.A... The best of his novels are those in which...
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