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Philosophy, society and educationT / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedBunyan, John, 1628-1688
Explore The Heavenly Footman; Or, A Description of the Man That Gets to Heaven With Directions How to Run So as to Obtain through a focused reading session...
Philosophy, society and educationT / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedDefoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Explore The History of the Devil, As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this Eng...
Philosophy, society and educationT / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedDewey, John, 1859-1952
Explore The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and other essays in contemporary thought through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue re...
Philosophy, society and educationT / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedHuxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
Explore The Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature Essay #4 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" through a focused reading session. Project...
Philosophy, society and educationT / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedWells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
Explore The island of Doctor Moreau through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Science f...
Philosophy, society and educationT / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedBunyan, John, 1628-1688
Explore The Jerusalem Sinner Saved; or, Good News for the Vilest of Men through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this Engli...
Philosophy, society and educationT / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedSwift, Jonathan, 1667-1745; Aitken, George Atherton, 1860-1917 [Editor]
Explore The Journal to Stella through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Johnson, Esther...
Philosophy, society and educationT / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedWordsworth, William, 1770-1850
Explore The law of copyright through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Copyright”. Begi...
Philosophy, society and educationT / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedLang, Andrew, 1844-1912
Explore The Library through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Books”. Begin with a shor...
Philosophy, society and educationT / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedCarlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881
Explore The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records t...
Philosophy, society and educationT / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedHuxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
Explore The Lights of the Church and the Light of Science Essay #6 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg...
Philosophy, society and educationT / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedKipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
Explore The Man Who Would Be King through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Political f...
Philosophy, society and educationT / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedMacDonald, George, 1824-1905
Explore The Marquis of Lossie through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Scotland -- Fic...
Philosophy, society and educationT / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedJames, William, 1842-1910
Explore The Meaning of Truth through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Pragmatism”. Beg...
Philosophy, society and educationT / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedConrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
Explore The Mirror of the Sea through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Conrad, Joseph,...
Philosophy, society and educationT / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedWells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
Explore The New Machiavelli through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Adultery -- Ficti...
Philosophy, society and educationT / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedAristotle, 385 BCE-323 BCE
Explore The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “E...
Ideas and society discoveryT / RCReading & discovery
Research discovery / preview requiredWarner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900
The Novel and the Common School — English source edition. Subject: Education -- United States.
Philosophy, society and educationT / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedShaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
Explore The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-lan...
Philosophy, society and educationT / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedBunyan, John, 1628-1688
Explore The Pharisee and the Publican through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Pharise...
Philosophy, society and educationT / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedBunyan, John, 1628-1688
Explore The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan through a focused reading...
Philosophy, society and educationT / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedBunyan, John, 1628-1688; Aikin, Lucy, 1781-1864
Explore The Pilgrim's Progress in Words of One Syllable through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edit...
Philosophy, society and educationT / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedRuskin, John, 1819-1900
Explore The Pleasures of England Lectures given in Oxford through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language ed...
Philosophy, society and educationT / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedRuskin, John, 1819-1900
Explore The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character...
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