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by Katherine H. Adams, Michael L. Keene
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Winifred Black worked in journalism from 1888 to 1936, often writing under the pseudonym Annie Laurie. Her work appeared in the Hearst papers—especially the San Francisco Examiner—and in fifty additional newspapers weekly through syndication. Black wrote 10,000 short pieces, as well as three books,...
The Enemy Within Never Did Without
German and Japanese Prisoners of War At Camp Huntsville, Texas, 1942-1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Camp Huntsville was one of the first and largest POW camps constructed in America during World War II. Located roughly eight miles east of Huntsville, Texas, in Walker County, the camp was built in 1942 and opened for prisoners the following year. The camp served as a model site for POW installations...
by Charles H.L. Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Famous Generals of the Great War is a collection of biographies of famous Allied generals, such as John J. Pershing, Armando Diaz, and more.
by H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
This volume contains five works by Henry Louis Mencken: “Pistols for Two,” “Heliogabalus,” “The Artist: A Drama Without Words,” “Suggestions to Our Visitors,” and “George Bernard Shaw: His Plays.” None of these books are included in the volume “Six by Mencken and One by...
THE GREATEST BRITISH DETECTIVES - Boxed Set: 190+ Murder Mysteries, Thrillers & Crime Stories (Illustrated Edition)
Tales & Cases of Legendary Sleuths and Investigators - Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown, Hercule Poirot, Martin Hewitt, Dr. Thorndyke, Bulldog Drummond, Max Carrados, Tommy and Tuppence and more
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2017
This carefully edited collection contains the greatest tales of the legendary British sleuths and investigators, including Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Father Brown, Tommy and Tuppence, Dr. Thorndyke and many others: Sherlock Holmes Series: A Study in Scarlet The Sign of Four The Hound of the...
Poet into War
Life of Siegfried Sassoon
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Siegfried Sassoon’s legacy of poems have made him one of the best-known World War One poets. Apart from his poetry, he is also famous for his protest against the war which was read out in parliament, his threat to refuse to fight anymore, and his single-handed capture of a German trench for which...
by Joyce Armstrong Carroll Ed.D, H.L.D., Edward E. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
In Four by Four: Practical Methods for Writing Persuasively, well-known authors and teachers of writing Joyce Armstrong Carroll and Edward E. Wilson provide a practical guide to teaching students how to write persuasively. Organized in four chapters, each containing four sections, the text opens with...
by H.L. Mencken
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
In this 1905 short work of criticism, one great satirical mind pays tribute to another. In addition to lively synopses and appreciations of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Arms and the Man, The Devil’s Disciple, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, and others, Mencken offers an epilogue on Shaw and Shakespeare.
Paper Dolls
Fragile Figures, Enduring Symbols
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Paper dolls might seem the height of simplicity—quaint but simple toys, nothing more. But through the centuries paper figures have reflected religious and political beliefs, notions of womanhood, motherhood and family, the dictates of fashion, approaches to education, individual self-image and...
by H.L. Mencken
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
The DEFINITIVE EDITION OF The American Language was published in 1936. Since then it has been recognized as a classic. It is that rarest of literary accomplishments—a book that is authoritative and scientific and is at the same time very diverting reading. But after 1936 HLM continued to gather...
by H. A. L. (Herbert Albert Laurens) Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2015
by H.L. Mencken
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Perhaps the first truly important book about the divergence of American English from its British roots, this survey of the language as it was spoken-and as it was changing-at the beginning of the 20th century comes via one of its most inveterate watchers, journalist, critic, and editor HENRY LOUIS...
by H. L. Mencken
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...
by H. L. Mencken
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Nothing broadens and mellows the mind so much as foreign travel.—Dr. Orison Swett Marden. The scene is the brow of the Hungerberg at Innsbruck. It is the half-hour before sunset, and the whole lovely valley of the Inn—still wie die Nacht, tief wie das Meer—begins to glow with mauves and apple greens,...