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The Lumley Autograph
by Susan Fenimore CooperA satirical work concerning the autograph collecting mania of the mid-nineteenth century.
Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society
by George BorrowLetters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society
Vida de Lazarillo Tormes
by AnónimoA fictional story of a street boy's apprenticeship to a blind beggar, a miserly priest, a bankrupt gentleman. Lazarillo's tale is a wicked satire of venality, pretense, and brazen self-seeking.
Our Legends
by V. K. Kapur D. B. SinghLife and works of many eminent personalities of the recent past.
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences
by René DescartesThe Discourse on the Method is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise published by René Descartes in 1637. Its full name is Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences.
Diary of Samuel Pepys -- Volume 01: Preface and Life
by Samuel PepysRichard Le Gallienne’s elegant abridgment of the Diary captures the essential writings of Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), a remarkable man who witnessed the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666. Originally scribbled in a cryptic shorthand, Pepys’s quotidian journal of life in Restoration London provides an astonishingly frank and diverting account of political intrigues; naval, church, and cultural affairs; and the sexual escapades and domestic strife of a man with a voracious, childlike appetite for living. “As a human document the Diary is literally unique,” notes Le Gallienne. “It will have a still greater value for its historical importance.”
The Days Before Yesterday
by Lord Frederic HamiltonLord Frederick Spencer Hamilton was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, the sixth son of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn and Lady Louisa Jane Russell. Lord Frederick also wrote the books "Here, There and Everywhere", "The Days Before Yesterday" and "Vanished Pomps of Yesterday".