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English as She Is Taught (1900)
This is a reprint of a review of English as She Is Taught by Caroline B. Le Row, first published in 1887. Twain’s work first appeared in England in 1887. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
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The Famous History of the Seven Champions of Christendom (1696)
An early printing of this famous romance. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Richard Johnson
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The Fighting Littles (1941)
Bringing up the Greatest Generation was no easy job, but Ripley Little threw himself into it wholeheartedly.
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Booth Tarkington
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The Flying Inn (1914)
As the sign of the crescent ascends over England, the last Inn takes to the road. Read online at archive.org.
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G. K. Chesterton
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The General (1936)
A stinging indictment of the British military culture that led to the wanton slaughter of World War I.
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C. S. Forester
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The Gentleman From Indiana (1899)
John Harkness returns home to Indiana to run a newspaper, fight corruption and the Klan, and win a seat in Congress. Read online at Hathitrust.
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Booth Tarkington
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Great Expectations (1979)
Young Pip has a patron -- but who? This edition includes Dickens’ original ending where Pip and Estella are not reconciled.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
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Grimm’s Household Tales (1884)
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Brothers Grimm
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Hard Times for These Times (1854)
The utilitarian Mr. Gradgrind manages to destroy his children’s happiness. Read online at archive.org.
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Charles Dickens
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How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (1897)
A collection of eight essays, including Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offences. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
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Is Shakespeare Dead? from My Autobiography (1909)
Twain here points out the surprising lack of evidence that the man Shakespeare actually wrote the plays that were published under his name. He favors the Bacon hypothesis rather than the Oxford. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
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Jane Austen’s Letters (1995)
Includes all of Jane Austen’s known letters discovered through 1995, as well as some important letters about her.
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Jane Austen
Deirdre Le Faye
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Jane Austen’s Manuscript Letters in Facsimile (1990)
Reprints facsimiles of all of Jane Austen’s known letters.
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Jane Austen
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Jim Davis (1911)
Young Jim Davis accidentally stumbles on a smugglers’ den and is shanghaied into their crew, until after a series of hairbreadth adventures he finally escapes. Read online at archive.org.
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John Masefield
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Just the Right Amount of Turkish (1930)
This illustration was used as the background art for a Chesterfield's cigarette advertisement.
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None
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Robert Lawson
King Leopold’s Soliloquy (1905)
A satirical defense of the Belgian king’s exploitation of the Congo Free State, notoriously the subject of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. A supplement was added to make the second edition. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
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None
Literary Lapses: A Book of Sketches (1910)
This was the author’s first book of humorous sketches -- it starts right off with ‘My Financial Career’ -- one of his most often-anthologized pieces. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Stephen Leacock
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Literary Lapses: A Book of Sketches (1911)
This was a significantly enlarged edition with fourteen new sketches. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Stephen Leacock
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Long Before Forty (1967)
An autobiographical fragment about the author’s early attempts to become a published author, added to his notes about the Hornblower saga published in The Hornblower Companion.
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C. S. Forester
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