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Top authorsMark Twain Charles Dudley Warner Michel de Montaigne William Dean Howells Robert Louis Stevenson John Ruskin Nathaniel Hawthorne G. K. Chesterton Theodore Roosevelt Alphonse de Lamartine

My dear Cornelia

Stuart Pratt Sherman

American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897)

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1

Various

Comfort Found in Good Old Books

George Hamlin Fitch

Fragments of Earth Lore: Sketches & Addresses Geological and Geographical

James Geikie

Nature's invitation: Notes of a bird-gazer, North and South

Bradford Torrey

Towards an enduring peace: A symposium of peace proposals and programs 1914-1916

The Library

Andrew Lang

The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54

Dorothy Osborne

Carry On: Letters in War-Time

Coningsby Dawson

The Ways of Men

Eliot Gregory

What to Do? Thoughts Evoked by the Census of Moscow

Leo Tolstoy

Third class in Indian railways

Mahatma Gandhi

Cover of A diplomat's wife in Mexico: Letters from the American Embassy at Mexico City, covering the dramatic period between October 8th, 1913, and the breaking off of diplomatic relations on April 23rd, 1914, together with an account of the occupation of Vera Cruz

A diplomat's wife in Mexico: Letters from the American Embassy at Mexico City, covering the dramatic period between October 8th, 1913, and the breaking off of diplomatic relations on April 23rd, 1914, together with an account of the occupation of Vera Cruz

Edith O'Shaughnessy

Lectures on the English Poets; Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics

Various

A Novelist on Novels

Walter Lionel George