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Selections for Feb 2012



Gutenberg Selections for February 2012
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Asian

In Kali's Country by Emily Churchill Thompson Sheets
The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2)


Biography

Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words by Ludwig van Beethoven
Browning and His Century by Helen Archibald Clarke
Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur Thomson
Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art by John Gould Fletcher
The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
Women of Achievement by Benjamin Griffith Brawley


Classics

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Esther by Jean Racine
Moby Dick, or, the whale by Herman Melville
My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Vicomte De Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas
Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas


Children

Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm


Curiosity

A Vindication of Natural Diet. by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lace, Its Origin and History by Samuel L. Goldenberg
Mince Pie by Christopher Morley
Ophiolatreia by Anonymous
Quacks and Grafters by Unknown
Roumanian Stories by Various
The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women by Frederic Rowland Marvin
The Moral Instruction of Children by Felix Adler
The Romance of a Great Store by Edward Hungerford
The Unpublishable Memoirs by A. S. W. Rosenbach


Drama

Twelfth Night by J P Kemble and William Shakspeare


Historical

A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London by Defoe
Canute the Great by Laurence Marcellus Larson
Celebrated Crimes (Complete) by Alexandre Dumas
Civil War Experiences, 1862-1865 by Edward Mott Robbins
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
England by Sir Frank Fox
England in the Days of Old by William Andrews
Famous American Statesmen by Sarah Knowles Bolton
Letters of a Diplomat's Wife by Mary King Waddington
Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck by Jethro Bithell
Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) by John Ruskin
Science and Medieval Thought by Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley
Social Transformations of the Victorian Age by T. H. S. Escott
The Borgias by Alexandre Dumas
The Seven Periods of English Architecture by Edmund Sharpe
The Trial of Oscar Wilde by Anonymous
Villainage in England by Paul Vinogradoff


Novels and tales worthy of mention

North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
A Journey in Other Worlds by John Jacob Astor
Mr. Standfast by John Buchan
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life by Sherwood Anderson
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Poetry

Poems by W. B. Yeats


Religion, philosophy, ideology

Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville
Dictatorship vs. Democracy by Leon Davidovich Trotzky
Outline Studies in the Old Testament for Bible Teachers by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Spiritual Adventures by Arthur Symons
Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult by Mark Eliot Laxer
The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends by Theophilus Goldridge Pinches


Science

Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) by W. H. Hudson and P. L. Sclater
Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) by W. H. Hudson and P. L. Sclater
New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers


Travel and adventure

The Adventures of Buffalo Bill by Col. William F. Cody
A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain
Following the Equator by Mark Twain
From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn by Henry M. Field
Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) by Isabella L. Bird
Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) by Isabella L. Bird
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
North-Pole Voyages by Zachariah Atwell Mudge
Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Frances Milton Trollope
Pictures of Canadian Life by J. Ewing Ritchie
Prowling about Panama by George A. Miller
Roughing It by Mark Twain
Sketches New and Old by Mark Twain
Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
The Cruise of the 'Alerte' by E. F. Knight
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
The Oregon Territory by Travers Twiss
Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by J. E. Vincent
With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang


Unclassified

Andromache by Gilbert Murray
Bib-li-op-e-gis-tic (Pertaining to the art of binding books.—Dibdin) by Unknown
Black Tales for White Children by C. H. Stigand and Mrs. C. H. Stigand
How to Write a Novel by Grant Richards
The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion by Henry Lunettes
The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers
The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling
The Romance of Lust by Anonymous
The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 by Various
West African studies by Mary Henrietta Kingsley



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