Heretics
  • By Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • Publisher: StreetLib

Heretics by Gilbert K. Chesterton. Heretics is a collection of 20 essays originally published by G. K. Chesterton in 1905. Nothing more strangely indicates an enormous and silent...

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The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • By William Anderson
  • Duration: 12:48:50
  • Narrator: Tish Hicks
  • Publisher: HarperCollins USA

Available for the first time and collected in one volume, the letters of one of America’s most beloved authors, Laura Ingalls Wilder—a treasure trove that offers new...

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On Cats
  • By Charles Bukowski
  • Duration: 1:19:47
  • Narrator: Roger Wayne
  • Publisher: HarperCollins USA

A raw and tenderly funny look at the human-cat relationship, from one of our most treasured and transgressive writers.“The cat is the beautiful devil.”Felines touched...

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The Poet At The Breakfast-table
  • By Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Publisher: CAIMAN

PREFACE.In this, the third series of Breakfast-Table conversations, a slight dramatic background shows off a few talkers and writers, aided by certain silent supernumeraries. The...

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The Iliad
  • By Homer
  • Publisher: Homer

The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a...

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The Complete Writings Of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 4
  • By Charles Dudley Warner
  • Publisher: CAIMAN

BEING A BOYOne of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, though it needs some practice to be a good one. The disadvantage of the position is that...

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The Complete Writings Of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1
  • By Charles Dudley Warner
  • Publisher: CAIMAN

INTRODUCTORY LETTERMY DEAR MR. FIELDS,—I did promise to write an Introduction to these charming papers but an Introduction,—what is it?—a sort of pilaster, put...

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Under The Greenwood Tree, Or, The Mellstock Quire; A Rural Painting Of The Dutch School
  • By Thomas Hardy
  • Publisher: CAIMAN

PREFACEThis story of the Mellstock Quire and its old established west-gallery musicians, with some supplementary descriptions of similar officials in Two on a Tower, A Few Crusted...

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The Professor At The Breakfast-table
  • By Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Publisher: CAIMAN

PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION.The reader of to-day will not forget, I trust, that it is nearly a quarter of a century since these papers were written. Statements which were true then...

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The Complete Writings Of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 2
  • By Charles Dudley Warner
  • Publisher: CAIMAN

PARIS IN MAY—FRENCH GIRLS—THE EMPEROR AT LONGCHAMPSIt was the first of May when we came up from Italy. The spring grew on us as we advanced north; vegetation seemed...

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