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The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. Rendered here into English Prose and Translated by Samuel Butler.
It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon,... Read more...
Keywords: Literature, Fiction, Ulysses, Homer, Odyssey, Achilles, Telemachus, Troy, Journey of Ulysses, Ancient, Classic, Mythology, Greek, Epic Poem, Samuel Butler
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Illustrated
- Fiction
- English
- 25537 Words
- Ages 6 and up
- 387
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Just So Stories (1902) by Rudyard Kipling, and illustrated by Joseph M. Gleeson and Rudyard Kipling. The Color Illustrations are by Joseph M. Gleeson and were originally published by Doubleday & Company, in 1912 the Black & white images are by Rudyard Kipling.
Rudyard... Read more...
Keywords: Just So Stories, Literature, Fiction, Juvenil, Rudyard Kipling, Moral, Animals, Fables, Kangaroo, Leopard, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Kipling, Illustrated
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A South American Romance
- Romance
- English
- 83535 Words
- Ages 6 and up
- 533
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María is a novel written by Colombian writer Jorge Isaacs between 1864 and 1867. It is a costumbrist novel representative of the Spanish romantic movement. It may be considered a precursor of the criollist novel of the 1920s and 1930s in Latin America.
Despite being... Read more...
Keywords: Literature, Romance, Novel, Jorge Isaacs, María, Fiction, Alfonso Escudero, Bogotá, Efraín, Valle del Cauca, Latin America, Criollist Novel, Spanish Romantic Movement
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- Juvenile Fiction
- English
- 29222 Words
- Ages 3 and up
- 304
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Uncle Remus Stories (1906) by Joel Chandler Harris (1845-1908), with illustratrions.
Uncle Remus is a collection of animal stories, songs, and oral folklore, collected from Southern United States African-Americans. Many of the stories are didactic, much like those of... Read more...
Keywords: Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus Stories, Brother Rabbit, Br'er Rabbit, Literature, Fiction, Children Tales, Anthologie, Fables, Tales
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Complete Three Volumes
- Fiction
- English
- 316847 Words
- Ages 6 and up
- 943
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The Forsyte Saga, is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by Nobel Prize-winning John Galsworthy.
Chronicles the lives of three generations of the Forsyte family. Vicissitudes of leading members of upper class British family. Only a... Read more...
Keywords: John Galsworthy, Forsyte Saga, Complete, Indian Summer, Awakening, To Let, Man of Property, Soames Forsyte, Forsyte Family, Upperclass British Family, In Chancery, Literature, Fiction, Novel, England, Generations
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- Biography & Autobiography
- English
- 252018 Words
- Ages 6 and up
- 702
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of the experiences of British soldier Thomas E. Lawrence (1888-1935) ("Lawrence of Arabia"), while serving as a liaison officer with rebel forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks of 1916 to... Read more...
Keywords: T. E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Biography, Autobiography, Adventures, Ottoman Turks, Insurgency, Tyrkey, Middle East, World War I, Lawrence, Arabia, King Hussein, Thomas E. Lawrence
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The Tetralogy
- Fiction
- English
- 335413 Words
- Ages 6 and up
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Parade's End is a tetralogy (four related novels) by Ford Madox Ford. It is set mainly in England and on the Western Front in World War I, where Ford served as an officer in the Welsh Regiment, a life vividly depicted in the novels. Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939) was an... Read more...
Keywords: Parade's End, Tetralogy, Ford Madox Ford, Literature, Fiction, England WWI, World War I, Welsh Regiment, Historical Fiction, Christopher Tiejens, Last Post, France, Belgium, Sylvia, Valentine, Some do Not, No More Parades, Man Could Standup
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- Fiction
- English
- 63503 Words
- Ages 6 and up
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Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.
Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post-World War I England. It is... Read more...
Keywords: Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, Literature, Fiction, Romance, Preparation, Party, Woman Society, World War I, Post War, Clarissa Dalloway, Novel, England
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Illustrated
- Self-Help
- English
- 14003 Words
- Ages 6 and up
- 514
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George Brant Bridgman (1865–1943) was a Canadian-American painter, writer, and teacher in the fields of anatomy and figure drawing. Bridgman taught anatomy for artists at the Art Students League of New York for some 45 years.
Constructive Anatomy: Illustrated by George B.... Read more...
Keywords: Constructive Anatomy, George B. Bridgman, George Brant Bridgman, Illustrated, Anatomy, Drawings, Human Anatomy, Skeleton, Bones, Muscles, Movements, Torso, Masses, Hand, Proportion, Human Figure, Constructing, Conceptions, Art [more]
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- Fiction
- English
- 178863 Words
- Ages 6 and up
- 199
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Laurence Sterne (1713–1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne, published between 1759–1767. Sterne promises the “life and opinions”... Read more...
Keywords: Laurence Stern, Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Life and Opinions, Narratives, Literature, Fiction, Yorick, Parson, Dictor Slop, Susannah, Uncle Toby, Comic Touch, Humour, Novel, Walter
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