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Annouchka: A Tale

Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883; Abbott, Franklin Pierce, 1852-1923 [Translator]

Explore Annouchka: A Tale through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Russian fiction --...

Russian fiction -- Translations into English
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Apology

Plato

Socrates’ defence presents a relationship between public judgement and a life committed to questioning. Follow how he responds to accusations, distinguish...

reasoningconscienceauthority
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Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates

Plato, 428? BCE-348? BCE; Brooks, Edward, 1831-1912 [Commentator]; Cary, Henry, 1804-1870 [Translator]

Explore Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under...

Socrates, 470 BC-399 BC
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Are You a Bromide? The Sulphitic Theory Expounded and Exemplified According to the Most Recent Researches into the Psychology of Boredom, Including Many Well-Known Bromidioms Now in Use

Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951

Are You a Bromide? The Sulphitic Theory Expounded and Exemplified According to the Most Recent Researches into the Psychology of Boredom, Including Many We...

American wit and humor
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Aristotle's History of Animals In Ten Books

Aristotle, 385 BCE-323 BCE; Schneider, Johann Gottlob, 1750-1822 [Contributor]; Cresswell, Richard, 1815-1882 [Translator]

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Zoology -- Pre-Linnaean works
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Arnold Böcklin

Schmid, Heinrich Alfred, 1863-1951; Böcklin, Arnold, 1827-1901 [Illustrator]

Arnold Böcklin — German source edition. Subject: Biography.

BiographyPainters -- Switzerland
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Around the Tea-Table

Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt), 1832-1902

Around the Tea-Table — English source edition. Subject: Conduct of life -- Fiction.

Conduct of life -- Fiction
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As You Like It

William Shakespeare

Exile moves the action from a threatening court into the Forest of Arden. Rosalind uses disguise to test ideas about love, while other characters offer com...

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Astronomy 2e

OpenStax

Astronomical explanations often depend on observations made across distances and times that cannot be explored directly. Start with one question about ligh...

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At the Back of the North Wind

MacDonald, George, 1824-1905

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Fairy tales
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Auf dem Mississippi; Nach dem fernen Westen

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910; Richter, Albert B., 1845-1898 [Illustrator]; Schrödter, H., 1872-1957 [Illustrator]

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Mississippi River -- Description and travelMississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs -- 19th centuryWest (U.S.) -- Description and travel
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