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The Best Ghost Stories

French, Joseph Lewis, 1858-1936 [Editor]; Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin), 1880-1936 [Author of introduction, etc.]

The Best Ghost Stories — English source edition. Subject: Ghost stories.

Ghost stories
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The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)

Brewer, David J. (David Josiah), 1837-1910 [Editor]; Allen, Edward A. (Edward Archibald), 1843-1922 [Editor]

The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) — English source edition. Subject: Speeches, addresses, etc..

Speeches, addresses, etc.
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The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant Being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers, calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners, improve the understanding, rectify the will, purify the passions, direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects, and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language with elegance and propriety

Moore, John Hamilton, 1738-1807

The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant Being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers, calculated to era...

Youth -- Conduct of life
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What I Saw in California A Description of Its Soil, Climate, Productions, and Gold Mines, with the Best Routes and Latest Information for Intending Emigrants; to Which is Annexed an Appendix Containing Official Documents and Letters Authenticating the Accounts of the Quantities of Gold Found, with Its Actual Value Ascertained by Chemical Assay; also Late Communications Containing Accounts of the Highest Interest and Importance from the Gold Districts; with a Map

Bryant, Edwin, 1805-1869

What I Saw in California A Description of Its Soil, Climate, Productions, and Gold Mines, with the Best Routes and Latest Information for Intending Emigran...

California -- Description and travelWest (U.S.) -- Description and travelOverland journeys to the Pacific
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Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith

Beste, Henry Digby, 1768-1836

Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to t...

France -- Description and travel
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