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  • Paralyzed Streets

    The Forgotten Horse Flu That Brought America to a Standstill and Burned Boston

    by Samuel Harris ...
    In the autumn of 1872, the United States economy ground to a sudden, terrifying halt. The cause was not a stock market crash or a human pandemic, but a highly contagious strain of equine influenza. Within weeks, millions of horses were paralyzed by sickness, silencing the bustling streets of major American cities. Before the combustion engine, horses were the vital gears of urban infrastructure. ... Read more

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  • The Anthology. African American literature. Novels and short stories. Poetry. Non-fiction. Essays. Illustrated

    by William Wells Brown, Harriet E. Wilson, Nella Larsen, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frances E. W. Harper, Langston Hughes, Phillis Wheatley, Solomon Northup, Frederick Douglass, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, Charles Ball, Josiah Henson, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Elizabeth Keckley, Louis Hughes, Booker T. Washington, Henry Box Brown, James Hambleton Christian, Theophilus Collins, Seth Concklin, Charles Gilbert, Samuel Green, Jamie Griffin, Harry Grimes, John Henry Hill, Jane Johnson, Matilda Mahoney, Mary Frances Melvin, Aunt Hannah Moore, Alfred S. Thornton, W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of enslaved people narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives. The genre known as slave narratives in the 19th century were ... Read more

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  • The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays, Articles, Speeches, Travel Sketches & Letters (Illustrated)

    Novels & Letters

    by Charles Dickens ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Charles Dickens" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Novels Oliver Twist The Pickwick Papers Nicholas Nickleby The Old Curiosity Shop Barnaby Rudge Martin Chuzzlewit Dombey and Son David Copperfield Bleak House Hard Times Little Dorrit A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations Our Mutual Friend The ... Read more

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  • Exploring the Bible: A Guide to the Old and New Testaments

    by R. Laird Harris, Walter M. Dunnett, Samuel J. Schultz, Gary V. Smith ...
    Studying Scripture is a fascinating experience for all whodesire to understand the workings of God. Still, there is much totake in, and from time to time we need a little help making senseof all the history, poetry, wisdom, prophecy, and various authors,let alone exactly what roles they all play in the grand biblicalperspective.Exploring the Bible takes you on a journey with abird's-eye view ... Read more

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  • Gone to Earth (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Shropshire borderland tragedy of a nature-mystic torn between curate and squire, a vixen's hunt, and the costs of keeping faith with the wild

    by Mary Gladys Meredith Webb, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...
    Gone to Earth (1917) unfolds in the Shropshire borderland, where Hazel Woodus—wild, music-haunted child of the hills—keeps faith with the nonhuman world even as she is caught between the earnest curate Edward Marston and the predatory squire Jack Reddin. Webb fuses folk belief, Biblical cadence, and sensuous nature-writing, letting dialect and topography shape consciousness. The vixen Hazel ... Read more

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  • Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A Geometric Satire of Victorian Hierarchy and Dimensional Discovery, from Lineland to Spaceland and Pointland

    by Edwin A. Abbott, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...
    Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884) follows A Square, a meticulous denizen of a plane, whose encounters with Lineland, Spaceland, and the ineffable Pointland expose both the possibilities and the peril of thinking beyond one's dimension. Written in the crisp idiom of Euclidean manuals yet edged with Swiftian satire, the narrative skewers Victorian hierarchies—class, gender, and ... Read more

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  • Diary of Samuel Pepys (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Restoration London in Plague, Fire, and the Anglo-Dutch War: Navy Board toil, Charles II's court, theatre revived, prices, music, and candor

    by Samuel Pepys, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...
    The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1660-1669) offers the most immediate portrait of Restoration London, interlacing Navy Board labors with a city reborn under Charles II. In brisk shorthand entries, Pepys chronicles the Plague, the Fire, the Anglo-Dutch War, the theatre's revival, music, prices, and domestic economies. Its style fuses ledger precision, gossip, and self-scrutiny, positioning the work ... Read more

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  • The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens: 20 Illustrated Classics in One Volume

    by Charles Dickens ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens: 20 Illustrated Classics in One Volume" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: Novels Oliver Twist The Pickwick Papers Nicholas Nickleby The Old Curiosity Shop Barnaby Rudge Martin Chuzzlewit Dombey and Son David Copperfield Bleak House Hard Times Little Dorrit A Tale ... Read more

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  • The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A Restoration England journal of 17th-century life: Plague and Great Fire accounts, candid politics, and everyday social dynamics

    by Samuel Pepys, Selene Dorswell, Samuel Harris ...
    Translated by Mynors Bright ...
    The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete collects the unexpurgated entries he kept from 1660 to 1669, a panorama of Restoration London from playhouse to Navy Office. Pepys chronicles the Great Plague, the Great Fire of 1666, and the Second Dutch War, interleaving public crises with domestic quarrels and pleasures. Written in Shelton shorthand, sprinkled with French and Spanish, its brisk, reportorial ... Read more

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  • Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Salons, censorship, and the Encyclopédie: a critical portrait of Enlightenment materialism and modern secular culture

    by John Morley, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...
    In Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (1878), John Morley offers a lucid intellectual biography of Denis Diderot and a history of the Encyclopédie, the Enlightenment's boldest machine for organizing knowledge. He reads Rameau's Nephew, Le Rêve de d'Alembert, Jacques le fataliste, the Salons, and technical entries alongside episodes of censorship and salon sociability. The style is Victorian but ... Read more

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  • A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. An Enlightenment expedition: Antarctic Circle crossings, Pacific ethnography, and the fall of Terra Australis

    by James Cook, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...
    First published in 1777, A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World (Vol. 1 and 2) distills Cook's 1772-1775 circumnavigation in HMS Resolution (with Furneaux's Adventure initially in company). In spare, data-rich prose he records multiple crossings of the Antarctic Circle, the collapse of Terra Australis, and visits to Tahiti, Tonga, Easter Island, New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, ... Read more

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  • High Adventure (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. An early World War I air-combat memoir from the Lafayette Escadrille to U.S. Air Service—mud, patrols, and biplane duels over the Western Front

    by James Norman Hall, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...
    High Adventure is James Norman Hall's lucid memoir of flying with the Lafayette Escadrille and the American Air Service in the First World War. From muddy forward fields to frigid patrols over the lines, Hall renders the improvisational tactics and fragile courage of early combat aviation—balloon attacks, escort work, sudden spirals of tracer and fabric—through clean prose that favors close ... Read more

    $1.99 USD