Ulysses

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Ulysses

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American Slavery as it is

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Category : Antigua
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Living My Life

Living My Life PDF Author: Emma Goldman
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486225449
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 532

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The autobiography of the early radical leader and her participation in communist, anarchist, and feminist activities

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass PDF Author: Frederick Douglass
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 628

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Frederick Douglass recounts early years of abuse, his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves. It is also the only of Douglass's autobiographies to discuss his life during and after the Civil War, including his encounters with American presidents such as Lincoln, Grant, and Garfield.

The Book of this and that

The Book of this and that PDF Author: Robert Lynd
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Mary Barton, a Tale of Manchester Life

Mary Barton, a Tale of Manchester Life PDF Author: Elisabeth-Cleghorn Gaskell
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Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Fact Stranger Than Fiction

Fact Stranger Than Fiction PDF Author: John Patterson Green
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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The Social Life of Coffee

The Social Life of Coffee PDF Author: Brian Cowan
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300133502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.

His Natural Life

His Natural Life PDF Author: Marcus Clarke
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Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494

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The Devil’s Dictionary

The Devil’s Dictionary PDF Author: Ambrose Bierce
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341

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“Dictionary, n: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.” Bierce’s groundbreaking Devil’s Dictionary had a complex publication history. Started in the mid-1800s as an irregular column in Californian newspapers under various titles, he gradually refined the new-at-the-time idea of an irreverent set of glossary-like definitions. The final name, as we see it titled in this work, did not appear until an 1881 column published in the periodical The San Francisco Illustrated Wasp. There were no publications of the complete glossary in the 1800s. Not until 1906 did a portion of Bierce’s collection get published by Doubleday, under the name The Cynic’s Word Book—the publisher not wanting to use the word “Devil” in the title, to the great disappointment of the author. The 1906 word book only went from A to L, however, and the remainder was never released under the compromised title. In 1911 the Devil’s Dictionary as we know it was published in complete form as part of Bierce’s collected works (volume 7 of 12), including the remainder of the definitions from M to Z. It has been republished a number of times, including more recent efforts where older definitions from his columns that never made it into the original book were included. Due to the complex nature of copyright, some of those found definitions have unclear public domain status and were not included. This edition of the book includes, however, a set of definitions attributed to his one-and-only “Demon’s Dictionary” column, including Bierce’s classic definition of A: “the first letter in every properly constructed alphabet.” Bierce enjoyed “quoting” his pseudonyms in his work. Most of the poetry, dramatic scenes and stories in this book attributed to others were self-authored and do not exist outside of this work. This includes the prolific Father Gassalasca Jape, whom he thanks in the preface—“jape” of course having the definition: “a practical joke.” This book is a product of its time and must be approached as such. Many of the definitions hold up well today, but some might be considered less palatable by modern readers. Regardless, the book’s humorous style is a valuable snapshot of American culture from past centuries. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.