Selected books 14-18 July 2012

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Some interesting volumes to bring us up to 18 July 2012

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Books by and about women

The Life of Florence Nightingale vol. 1 of 2 by Edward Tyas Cook [1913]

The Life of Florence Nightingale vol. 2 of 2 by Edward Tyas Cook [1913]

Regiment of Women by Clemence Dane [1917]

Evolution of Life and Form by Annie Besant [1900]

Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick [1912]

By the Sea and Other Verses by Hannah Lavinia Baily [1907]

The love letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard and Heloise [1903]

Other special volumes

Man's Place in Nature and Other Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley [1906]

The Hittites by A. H. Sayce [1890]

North Cornwall Fairies and Legends by Enys Tregarthen

Hieroglyphics by Arthur Machen [1902] Not at all what you'd expect!

The Expositor's Bible by William Henry Bennett

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Recently released/updated books 14 July 2012

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I feel sad that illness has stopped me from updating all interesting books from Gutenberg. The ones below are several that, for one reason or another, caught my eye. I wish I could make the time to explain why, but I can't. I rather hope it will be self-evident when you see them.

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How Women Should Ride by C. de Hurst

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The Christian Doctrine of Hell by Joseph M. Wheeler

A Letter To The Society for the Suppression of Vice, on their Malignant Efforts to Prevent a Free England...

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Marriage In Free Society by Edward Carpenter

History of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt by Jacob Abbott

The Book of Household Management by Mrs. Beeton

The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fashion and Famine by Ann S. Stephens

The Passion for Life by Joseph Hocking

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Samuel Richardson

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Samuel Richardson

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 by Samuel Richardson

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Samuel Richardson

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Samuel Richardson

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 by Samuel Richardson

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 by Samuel Richardson

And lastly, because it's Bastille Day, why not polish up your high school French with the delightful volume below? C'est très charmant! [as we would say in high school French....]

Lettres de mon moulin by Alphonse Daudet

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