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  • A gallop among American scenery or, Sketches of American scenes and military adventure

    Journey Through American Landscapes and Military Exploits

    In "A Gallop Among American Scenery or, Sketches of American Scenes and Military Adventure," Augustus E. Silliman vividly captures the essence of 19th-century American landscapes intertwined with the fervor of military exploits. Through a rich narrative style that oscillates between poetic descriptions and vivid imagery, Silliman evokes the beauty and diversity of the American terrain, while ... Read more

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  • A Gallop Among American Scenery Or, Sketches Of American Scenes And Military Adventure

    Augustus E. Silliman wrote a travelogue titled "A Gallop Among American Scenery: Sketches of American Scenes and Military Adventure," which was first released in 1843. The author's trip across different parts of the United States in the early 19th century is vividly and descriptively described in the book. Silliman provides in-depth insights on the people, environment, and military operations of ... Read more

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  • Robinson Crusoe

    by Daniel Defoe ...
    The classic tale of survival on a deserted island. The story begins: "I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a ... Read more

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  • Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories

    Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories (1924) published posthumously, showcases Herman Melville at his most compassionate and socially engaged. In this final exploration of his self-proclaimed quarrel with God, Melville offers a blistering critique of slavery and social injustice while exploring the conflict between the individuals drive towards freedom and the inhuman absurdities of modernity. The ... Read more

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  • Great Short Works of Herman Melville

    Early American writer Herman Melville is best known for his great American novel "Moby Dick." However, Melville was also a prolific and honest short story writer. His stories play with irony, twisting the fates of his protagonists and making sure that the reader is left with a deep sense of wonder and enlightenment. Many of his works are set from an "outsider's" perspective of immigrants in early ... Read more

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  • John Marr and Other Poems

    ere in evidence. It is clear that he did not set himself to master the poet's art, yet through the mask of conventional verse which often falls into doggerel, the voice of a true poet is heard. In selecting the pieces for this volume I have put in the vigorous sea verses of _John Marr_ in their entirety and added those others from his _Battle Pieces_, _Timoleon,_ etc., that best indicate the ... Read more

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  • American War Ballads and Lyrics: A Collection of the Songs and Ballads of the Colonial wars, the Revolutions, the War of 1812-15, the War with Mexico, and the Civil War (Complete)

    In the preparation of these volumes there has been no attempt at completeness. The literature from which the materials are drawn is much too vast to be compressed into two little volumes like these. The aim has been simply to make the collection fairly representative in character, and to include in it those pieces relating to our several wars which best reflect the spirit of the times that ... Read more

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  • Billy Budd and Other Stories

    Known best for his avant-garde and modernistic style, Herman Melville's stories come together in the compilation "Billy Budd and Other Stories." In "Billy Budd, Foretopman," Melville returns to the sea life and describes the tale of a well-liked sailor who is wrongly convicted of trying to enact mutiny against the ship's master at arms. Billy Budd accidentally kills his superior during a fight, ... Read more

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  • Robinson Crusoe

    by Daniel Defoe. ...
    The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (of York, Mariner Who lived Eight and Twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where in all the Men perished but Himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates) is a novel by Daniel ... Read more

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  • The Pilot, a tale of the sea

    by Cooper, James ...
    Each year brings some new and melancholy chasm in what is now the brief list of my naval friends and former associates. War, disease, and the casualties of a hazardous profession have made fearful inroads in the limited number; while the places of the dead are supplied by names that to me are those of strangers. With the consequences of these sad changes before me, I cherish the recollection of ... Read more

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  • Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War 

    "With few exceptions, the Pieces in this volume originated in an impulse imparted by the fall of Richmond. They were composed without reference to collective arrangement, but being brought together in review, naturally fall into the order assumed."The events and incidents of the conflict—making up a whole, in varied amplitude, corresponding with the geographical area covered by the war—from these ... Read more

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  • Complete Works of Herman Melville US (Delphi Classics)

    Series Book 4 - Delphi Series Two
    Herman Melville is a giant of American literature, whose novels are hailed as literary masterpieces. This eBook offers readers the complete works for the first time in digital print, as well as an array of bonus features.Features:* illustrated with many images relating to Melville’s life and works* annotated with concise introductions to the novels and other works* ALL the novels (except BILLY ... Read more

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