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Lencios was a 17th century French author, courtesan, and patron of the arts. She was born in Paris and later entered a convent for one year. Lencios was determines to remain unmarried and independent...

To a people, always prompt in its recognition of genius, and ready to sympathize in the joys and woes of a truly great artist, this work will be one of exceeding interest. It is a short, glowing, and...

Colonel David Crockett was one of the most remarkable men of the times in which he lived. Born in humble life, but gifted with a strong will, an indomitable courage, and unremitting perseverance, as...

Life of JohnsonAuthor: James BoswellPublisher: Book JunglePublication Date: Jan 28, 2008Number of Pages: 504 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1604249706ISBN-13: 9781604249705

Lencios was a 17th century French author, courtesan, and patron of the arts. She was born in Paris and later entered a convent for one year. Lencios was determines to remain unmarried and independent...

Light on the Path and KarmaAuthor: Collins Mabel CollinsPublisher: Book JunglePublication Date: Apr 03, 2007Number of Pages: 108 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1594625999ISBN-13:...

Light on the Path and Karma (New Edition)Author: Collins Mabel CollinsPublisher: Book JunglePublication Date: Jun 04, 2007Number of Pages: 108 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The premiere of LILIOM" at Budapest in December 1909, left both playgoer and critic a bit bewildered. It was not the sort of play the Hungarian capital had been accustomed to expect of its favorite...

The premiere of LILIOM" at Budapest in December 1909, left both playgoer and critic a bit bewildered. It was not the sort of play the Hungarian capital had been accustomed to expect of its favorite...

Edward B, Nitchie, founder of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing, now the Nitchie School of Lip-Reading, Inc, wrote "LIP-READING Principles and Practice". The development and perfecting of...

Edward B, Nitchie, founder of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing, now the Nitchie School of Lip-Reading, Inc, wrote "LIP-READING Principles and Practice". The development and perfecting of...

Helen Bannerman, the author of many children's books lived the big part of her life in India. Little Black Sambo was the most famous books she wrote, it was a children's favourite book for almost a...

H. Beam Piper was a 20th century science fiction writer. He is best known for his Terro-Human Future History series and a series of Paratime alternate history tales. The theme in many of Piper's...

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist. Novel Little Women for which she is best known was published in 1868. It is loosely based on her childhood experiences with her three sisters.Louisa May...

Somerset Maugham was a British novelist, short story writer and playwright. He was born in 1874 in Paris. During the 1930's his popularity soared and he became the highest paid author of his era...

Lombard Street is London's equivalent to Wall Street in the United States. Walter Bagehot was a 19th century journalist and economist who wrote about economics and government. The eleven essays in...

Published in 1891 this book is a collection of mysteries with a comic overtone. The stories included are Lard Arthur Savile's Crime, The Canterville Ghost, The Spinx Without a Secret, The Model...

Robert Hugh Benson (1871 - 1914) was the youngest son of the Archbishop of Canterbury. After college Benson was ordained as a priest in the Church of England. While on a trip to the Middle East...

Lord of the WorldAuthor: Robert Hugh BensonPublisher: Book JunglePublication Date: Jul 28, 2008Number of Pages: 284 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1605978930ISBN-13: 9781605978932

...The longest, without exception, of Balzac's books, and one which contains hardly any passage that is not very nearly of his best, Illusions Perdues suffers, I think, a little in point of...

Honora de Balzac is the narrator of this novel about Louis Lambert, a child prodigy. Balzac and Lambert are portrayed as students in Paris. They are both social outcasts who develop a love of...

Chekhov was a Russian who wrote short stories and plays. This is volume 13 in the Chekhov series. Stories included are: Love, Lights, A Story Without an End, Mari D'Elle, A Loving Chattel, The...

William Congreve wrote this racy farcical comedy full of disguises and misunderstandings. Many Restoration comedies are full of frivolous humor. Not so in this case. The underlying themes of sexual...

Sir Charles Lyell, a noted English geologist, was born at Kin-nordy, Forfarshire, Scotland, November 14, 1797, and died in London, February 22, 1875. His boyhood home in the New Forest gave him large...

Lyrical Ballads 1798Author: And Coleridge Wordsworth and ColeridgePublisher: Book JunglePublication Date: Sep 06, 2007Number of Pages: 136 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Lyrical Ballads 1798Author: William WordsworthPublisher: Book JunglePublication Date: Mar 13, 2008Number of Pages: 136 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1605972002ISBN-13: 9781605972008

Lysistrata loosely translated to "she who disbands armies", is an anti-war Greek comedy, written in 411 BCE by Aristophanes. Led by the eponymous Lysistrata, the story's female characters barricade...

This play is one of the most famous works by Shakespeare. It is loosely based on the life of King Macbeth of Scotland. Three witches open the play with their famous scene around a caldron. They later...

Pierre Loti was a French sailor and writer in the latter part of the 19th century. Loti is considered the finest descriptive writer of his time. His ability to share intimate feelings, moral...

Maggis's family are Irish immigrants living in New York in the late 1800's. Maggie is the daughter of a drunken mother and a cruel father. She is seduced by a friend of her brother's and subsequently...