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Daniel Coenn Charles Dickens

His Words

Biography & Autobiography
English
5331 Words
Ages 14 and up
201
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This book is a collection of 134 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Charles Dickens: “Keep yourself to yourself.” “A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.” “Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.” “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” “If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.” “We need never be ashamed of our tears.” “What greater gift than the love of a cat?” “We forge the chains we wear in life.” [more]

Keywords: Charles Dickens, quotes

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Beat Bucher, Hrsg. Charles Sealsfield

kurze Texte über C.S. Band 1

Biography & Autobiography
German
16197 Words
Ages 14 and up
262
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Der grosse Unbekannte, so wurde er genannt. Nach seinem Tode erst wurden alle seine Werke unter dem Namen [more]

Keywords: Postl, Sidons, Pseudonym, Der grosse Unbekannte, Alfred Hartmann, Franz Fiedler, Constantin von Wurzbach, Franz Brümmer

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Charles Lever Charles O'Malley

The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (Of 2)

Fiction
English
169556 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Lever was born in Amiens Street, Dublin, the second son of James Lever, an architect and builder, and was educated in private schools. His escapades at Trinity College, Dublin (1823–1828), where he took the degree in medicine in 1831, are drawn on for the plots of some of his novels. The character Frank Webber in the novel Charles O'Malley was based on a college friend, Robert Boyle, who later became a clergyman. Lever and Boyle earned pocket-money singing ballads of their own composing in the streets of Dublin and played many other pranks which Lever embellished in the novels O'Malley, Con Cregan and Lord Kilgobbin [more]

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JACOB ABBOTT CHARLES I

MAKERS OF HISTORY

History
English
52664 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Jacob Abbott (November 14, 1803 – October 31, 1879) was an American writer of children's books.Abbott was born [more]

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BARRY CORNWALL CHARLES LAMB

Juvenile Fiction
English
49064 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Born at Leeds, Yorkshire, he was educated at Harrow School, where he had for contemporaries Lord Byron and Robert Peel. On leaving school he was placed in the office of a solicitor at Calne, Wiltshire, remaining there until about 1807, when he returned to London to study law. By the death of his father in 1816 he became possessed of a small property, and soon after entered into partnership with a solicitor; but in 1820 the partnership was dissolved, and he began to write under the pseudonym of "Barry Cornwall". [more]

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ETHEL M. DELL CHARLES REX

Erotic
English
99191 Words
Ages 18 and up
7
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Ethel M. Dell (2 August 1881 – 19 September 1939) was a British writer of over 30 popular romance novels and several short stories from 1911 to 1939.Ethel May Dell was born on 2 August 1881 in Streatham, a suburb of London, England, UK. Her father was a clerk in the City of London and she had an older sister and brother. Her family was middle class and lived a comfortable life. Ethel Dell was a very shy, quiet girl and was content to be dominated by her family. She began to write stories while very young and many of them were published in popular magazines. Beneath her shy exterior, she had a passionate heart and most of her stories were stories of passion and love set in India and other old British colonial possessions. They were considered to be very racy and her cousins would pull out pencils to try and count up the number of times she used the words: passion, tremble, pant and thrill. Pictures of her are very rare and she was never interviewed by the press. [more]

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CHARLES DARWIN CHARLES DARWIN

HIS LIFE IN AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL CHAPTER, AND IN A SELECTED SERIES OF HIS PUBLISHED LETTERS

Biography & Autobiography
English
149571 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Charles Robert Darwin, FRS (/ˈdɑrwɪn/;[1] 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist and geologist,[2] best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory.[I] He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors,[3] and in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding. [more]

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ETHEL M. DELL CHARLES REX

Literary Collections
English
96643 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Ethel M. Dell (2 August 1881 – 19 September 1939) was a British writer of over 30 popular romance novels and several short stories from 1911 to 1939 Ethel May Dell was born on 2 August 1881 in Streatham, a suburb of London, England, UK. Her father was a clerk in the City of London and she had an older sister and brother. Her family was middle class and lived a comfortable life. Ethel Dell was a very shy, quiet girl and was content to be dominated by her family. She began to write stories while very young and many of them were published in popular magazines. Beneath her shy exterior, she had a passionate heart and most of her stories were stories of passion and love set in India and other old British colonial possessions. They were considered to be very racy and her cousins would pull out pencils to try and count up the number of times she used the words: passion, tremble, pant and thrill. Pictures of her are very rare and she was never interviewed by the press. [more]

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ARCHIBALD H. GRIMKE CHARLES SUMNER CENTENARY

THE AMERICAN NEGRO ACADEMY. OCCASIONAL PAPERS NO. 14

Fiction
English
6314 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Archibald Henry Grimké (August 17, 1849 – February 25, 1930) was an American lawyer, intellectual, journalist, diplomat and community leader in the 19th and early 20th centuries. A graduate of freedmen's schools, Lincoln University and Harvard Law School, he later was appointed as American Consul to the Dominican Republic from 1894 to 1898. He was an activist for rights for blacks, working in Boston and Washington, DC. He was a national vice-president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), as well as president of its Washington, DC branch. [more]

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Charles Reginald Enock Charles Reginald Enock

Fiction
English
120138 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Mexico, that southern land lying stretched between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, upon the tapering base of North [more]

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