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Beowulf is a legendary story of heroes, monsters and treasures. In it are merely the details of epic events of great people of a heroic past. The events and people that stirred the hearts of our forefathers are chronicled in every chapter. The beauty...

Hadley: The Regicides, Indian and General History, A Souvenir in Honor of Major-General Joseph Hooker is a book written by Elbridge Kingsley. The book is a tribute to Major-General Joseph Hooker, a Union Army general during the American Civil War, and provides a detailed...

The Sacred Dramas of George Buchanan is a collection of plays written by the Scottish poet and scholar, George Buchanan. The book includes six plays, each of which is based on a biblical story or character. The plays are written in Latin, with English...

""A History Of The Castles Of Herefordshire And Their Lords"" by Charles J. Robinson is a comprehensive account of the castles that have stood in the county of Herefordshire, England, and the lords who have owned and inhabited them over the centuries. The book...

""Charles W. Quantrell: A History Of His Guerrilla Warfare On The Missouri And Kansas Border During The Civil War"" is a comprehensive book written by John P. Burch that delves into the life and actions of Charles W. Quantrell, a notorious guerrilla fighter during...

""Hero Tales of the Bible"" by A.W. Spalding is a collection of stories from the Bible that highlight the heroic deeds of various characters. The book covers both the Old and New Testaments, including tales of Abraham, Moses, David, Esther, and Jesus. The stories...

""The Charity of Charles Dickens"" is a book written by Edward F. Payne that explores the philanthropic work of the famous author Charles Dickens. The book focuses on Dickens's interest in the Home for Fallen Women, a charitable organization that provided shelter and support...

The ""Puppets: Handbook Of Marionettes"" is a comprehensive guide to the art of marionette puppetry, written by the Hamburg Puppet Guild. This book provides a detailed overview of the history of marionettes, their construction, and techniques for manipulating them. It includes step-by-step instructions for...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

""The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races"" is a book written by Count Arthur de Gobineau that explores the differences between races and their respective influences on the history of civilization. De Gobineau argues that the various races of the world have distinct moral...

""Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland"" is a book written by Hugh Miller, which provides a detailed account of the traditional history of Cromarty, a town in the north of Scotland. The book is divided into two parts: the first part describes...

""Zone Therapy Simplified"" by Joe Shelby Riley is a comprehensive guide to the practice of zone therapy, a holistic approach to healing that focuses on the body's energy zones. The book provides a detailed explanation of the theory behind zone therapy, as well as...

Have you had an experience of the presence of God? Has a voice, a vision, a dream changed your sense of who you are? Has a sense of oneness with God changed your life? Are you hungry for a God who provides real guidance?...

I was riding along one autumn day through a certain wooded portion of New York State, when I came suddenly upon an old stone house in which the marks of age were in such startling contrast to its unfinished condition that I involun-tarily stopped...

The Journey of the Soul After Death is a book written by F. Max Muller that delves into the concept of the soul's journey after physical death. The book explores various religious and philosophical beliefs about what happens to the soul after it leaves...

It all came to me one election day. It was on a warm California afternoon, and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon from the ranch to the little village to vote Yes and No to a host of proposed amendments...

He awoke in the dark. His awakening was simple, easy, without movement save for the eyes that opened and made him aware of darkness. Unlike most, who must feel and grope and listen to, and contact with, the world about them, he knew himself...

It was long ago in the days when men sighed when they fell in love; when people danced by candle and lamp, and did dance, too, instead of solemnly gliding about; in that mellow time so long ago, when the young were romantic and...

William Sylvanus Baxter paused for a moment of thought in front of the drug-store at the corner of Washington Street and Central Avenue. He had an internal question to settle before he entered the store: he wished to allow the young man at the...

For by death is wrought greater change than hath been shown. Whereas in general the spirit that removed cometh back upon occasion, and is sometimes seen of those in flesh (appearing in the form of the body it bore) yet it hath happened that...

I scarcely know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth's credit. He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed through the...

Amidst the deep silence and solitude prevailing in the avenue several market gardeners' carts were climbing the slope which led towards Paris, and the fronts of the houses, asleep behind the dim lines of elms on either side of the road, echoed back the...

I am Margaret Goodwin. A week from today I shall be Mrs. James Orlebar Cloyster. It is just three years since I first met James. We made each other's acquaintance at half-past seven on the morning of the 28th of July in the middle...

Oh, dear I wish we weren't going home "So do I Can't we stay out a little while longer?" "Why, Flossie and Freddie Bobbsey " cried Nan, the older sister of the two small twins who had spoken. "A few minutes ago you were...

There it was The abrupt liberation of sound As he timed it with his watch, Bassett likened it to the trump of an archangel. Walls of cities, he meditated, might well fall down before so vast and compelling a summons. For the thousandth time...

Old Long-Beard paused in his narrative, licked his greasy fingers, and wiped them on his naked sides where his one piece of ragged bearskin failed to cover him. Crouched around him, on their hams, were three young men, his grandsons, Deer-Runner, Yellow-Head, and Afraid-of-the-Dark....

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Once upon a time, at the town of Senna on the banks of the Zambesi, was born a child....

Hurrah, Sam, it is settled at last that we are to go to boarding school "Are you certain, Tom? Don't let me raise any false hopes." "Yes, I am certain, for I heard Uncle Randolph tell Aunt Martha that he wouldn't keep us in...

They ran across the shining sand, the Pacific thundering its long surge at their backs, and when they gained the roadway leaped upon bicycles and dived at faster pace into the green avenues of the park. There were three of them, three boys, in...

San Francisco Bay is so large that often its storms are more disastrous to ocean-going craft than is the ocean itself in its violent moments. The waters of the bay contain all manner of fish, wherefore its surface is ploughed by the keels of...

A weary journey beyond the last scrub timber and straggling copses, into the heart of the Barrens where the niggard North is supposed to deny the Earth, are to be found great sweeps of forests and stretches of smiling land. But this the world...

You will be the first to grant me, honoured sir, that after earnestness of purpose, that is to say "keenness," there is no quality of the mind so essential to the even-balance as humour. The schoolmaster without this humanising virtue never yet won your...

He was a very sick white man. He rode pick-a-back on a woolly-headed, black-skinned savage, the lobes of whose ears had been pierced and stretched until one had torn out, while the other carried a circular block of carved wood three inches in diameter....

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en Allez vous-en Sapristi That's all right " He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it wAuthor: Kate...

Ken Ward had not been at the big university many days before he realized the miserable lot of a freshman. At first he was sorely puzzled. College was so different from what he had expected. At the high school of his home town, which,...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902. I went down into the...

John Claverhouse was a moon-faced man. You know the kind, cheek-bones wide apart, chin and forehead melting into the cheeks to complete the perfect round, and the nose, broad and pudgy, equidistant from the circumference, flattened against the very centre of the face like...

"I am afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go," said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning. "Go Where to?" "To Dartmoor; to King's Pyland." I was not surprised. Indeed, my only wonder was that he had not already...

During a remarkably severe winter, when a prodigious fall of snow confined everybody to their habitations, who were happy enough to have one to shelter them from the inclemency of the season, and were hot obliged by business to expose themselves to its rigour,...

When Edward Temple was about eight or nine years old he was afflicted with a disorder of the eyes. It was so severe, and his sight was naturally so delicate, that the surgeon felt some apprehensions lest the boy should become totally blind. He...

My peculiar relation to the writer of the following narratives is such that I must ask the reader to overlook the absence of explanation as to how they came into my possession. Withal, my knowledge of him is so meager that I should rather...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Originally published in 1885, this work covers details of classical ornamentation of precious and not so precious stones, including rings, signets, cylinder seals, brooches, and other objects in everyday, business and ceremonial use. The author is particularly concerned with the language and symbolism of...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...