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65) Nouns
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English
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"Provides an introduction to nouns, explaining what they are, and looking at how they function in sentences."--
66) Pronouns
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English
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"Explains what pronouns are, describes various kinds, presents examples, and includes quick tips and an exercise."--
67) Adjectives
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"Provides an introduction to adjectives, explaining what they are, and looking at how they function in a sentences."--
69) The Pit
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. The story of Frank Norris's The Pit could be taken from today's headlines: a businessman begins speculating in the commodities market on a small scale until, overcome by greed, addicted to the art of the deal, and harboring an ever-increasing appetite for power, he gambles recklessly in the market while the fortunes of farmers and small investors hang in the balance....
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The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James
"The Figure in the Carpet" is a short story published in 1896 in London, by American writer Henry James. The short story is usually referred to as a novella and is told in the first person. The narrator, whose name is never revealed, meets his favorite author and becomes obsessed with discovering the secret meaning or intention within all the author's works. The narrator, a writer for a literary newspaper,...
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Project Gutenberg
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Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (1867-1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer."
Joe Wilson and His Mates is a collection of short stories. It was released in hardback by William Blackwood in 1901 when Lawson was living in England, and features
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In Cosmopolis, his psychological novel set in the Eternal City, Paul Bourget (1852-1935) studies "the contrast between the rather incoherent ways of the rovers of high life and the character of perennity impressed everywhere in the great city of the Caesars and of the Popes . . . where even the corners speak of a secular past, [evoking] some representatives of the most modern, as well as the most arbitrary and the most momentary, life." In the ephemeral...
74) Adverbs
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English
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"Provides an introduction to adverbs, explaining what they are, and looking at how they function in a sentences."--
75) A horse's tale
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"I am Buffalo Bill's horse. I have spent my life under his saddle-with him in it, too, and he is good for two hundred pounds, without his clothes..." One of the earliest and greatest Americans to bring animal welfare to public attention, this 1907 story sends up the tall tale, among other things.
77) Ursula
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Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Ursule is the legitimate daughter of the widower Dr Denis Minoret’s deceased illegitimate brother-in-law by marriage, Joseph Mirouët; not only is she the doctor’s niece, she is also his goddaughter and ward. Fifteen years old when the novel begins, she has been brought up by the doctor. Dr Minoret, an atheist rather than an agnostic, and a devoted student of the Encyclopédie, has persisted in his rationalistic atheism for
...78) Hide and Seek
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Ideal for 1st grade students, this book teaches these 8 words from Fry's First 100 words list: is, in, into, the, or, look, who, and what. The clear images, rebus pictures and simple, repetitive sentences build grade 1 reading comprehension in a format that is appealing to children. Beginning readers will learn the essential sight words and gain confidence as they learn to read independently.
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Despite its popularity when it first appeared in print in 1600, Every Man Out of His Humour has never appeared as a single modern critical edition until now. The volume's introduction and annotations convey early modern obsessions with wealth and self-display by providing historical contexts and pointing out the continuity of those obsessions into modern life. The play is of interest because of its influence on the course of city comedy and its wealth...
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Project Gutenberg
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Originally published in 1899. From the preface, "The present volume has been styled...a "Literary History of Ireland," but a "Literary History of Irish Ireland" would be a more correct title, for I have abstained altogether from any analysis or even mention of the works of Anglicised Irishmen of the last two centuries. Their books, as those of Farquhar, of Swift, of Goldsmith, of Burke, find, and have always found, their true and natural place in...
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