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Asia Folklore Tales of The Beautiful Moon Maiden

by Muhammad Vandestra & Maya Aminah Sakura

There was an old bamboo cutter called Také Tori. He was an honest old man, very poor and hard-working, and he lived with his good old wife in a cottage on the hills. Children they had none, and little comfort...

Japanese Folklore The Legend of Eternal Life

by Xenohikawa Sabrina

Long, long ago there lived a man called Sentaro. His surname meant "Millionaire," but although he was not so rich as all that, he was still very far removed from being poor. He had inherited a small fortune...

The Art of War ( Active TOC, Free AUDIO BOOK) (A to Z Classics)

by Sun Tzu & A to z Classics

With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature. Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) The world's most influential treatise on strategy The Art of War' is an ancient Chinese military...

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin & "Franklin, Benjamin"

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the record of Benjamin Franklin's life written by Franklin himself and is one of the most influential examples of an autobiography ever written. Franklin's account of...

Salem Witchcraft (Complete Edition)

by Charles Wentworth Upham

This carefully crafted ebook: "Salem Witchcraft (Complete Edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions...

Of Plymouth Plantation (Complete Edition)

by William Bradford

This carefully crafted ebook: "Of Plymouth Plantation (Complete Edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Of Plymouth Plantation was written over a period of years...

The Mayflower Voyage & Its Aftermath – 4 Books in One Volume

by Azel Ames, William Bradford & Bureau of Military and Civic Achievement

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Mayflower Voyage & Its Aftermath – 4 Books in One Volume" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Mayflower was an English ship...

History of the Civil War: 1861-1865

by James Ford Rhodes

This carefully crafted ebook: "History of the Civil War: 1861-1865" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This Pulitzer Prize winning book remains one of the best histories...

TRUE CRIME COLLECTION – The Greatest Imposters & Con Artists

by Bram Stoker

The subject of imposture is always an interesting one, and impostors in one shape or another are likely to flourish as long as human nature remains what it is, and society shows itself ready to be gulled. The...

The Federalist & The Anti-Federalist Papers: Complete Collection

by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay & Samuel Bryan et al.

This carefully crafted ebook: "Federalist & The Anti-Federalist Papers" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This collection contains the crucial decisions and arguments...

Japanese Folklore Tales of The Beautiful Weaving Maiden Bilingual Edition English & Spanish

by Muhammad Vandestra & Maya Aminah Sakura

All you that are true lovers, I beseech you pray the gods for fair weather upon the seventh night of the seventh moon.

For patience’ sake and for dear love’s sake, pray, and be pitiful that upon that night...

The Mountain Chant

by Washington Matthews

"The ceremony of dsilyídjeqaçàl, or mountain chant—literally, chant towards (a place) within the mountains—is one of a large number practiced by the shamans, or medicine men, of the Navajo tribe. I have...

The Viking Age

by Charles Keary

The present volume is concerned with that period in the history of the Scandinavian peoples when they were growing, but had not yet fully grown, into nationalities, and when, therefore, their true national history...

The Italian Wars

by Arthur Johnson

At the date of the Italian expedition, Charles viii. had been eleven years on the throne of France. The monarchy to which he succeeded was, perhaps, less controlled by constitutional checks than any other in...

The Age of Napoleon

by Thomas Dyer

THE celebrated phrase of Louis XIV, "I am the State", proclaimed the consummation of despotism. He asserted, and it was true, that the people, as a body politic, had been annulled by the Crown. Before a century...

The Middle Ages

by Victor Duruy

From the fifth to the tenth century the Roman Empire crumbles away. The two invasions from the north and the south are accomplished. The new German Empire which Charlemagne attempts to organize is dissolved....

The Life of Belisarius

by Lord Mahon

At the beginning of the sixth century of the Christian era, the empire of Constantinople was beset with enemies and sinking to decay. The tide of barbarian invasion had lately overwhelmed one half of the ancient...

Wellington's Army

by Charles Oman

WHILE WORKING FOR THE LAST nine years at the History of the Peninsular War, I have (as was inevitable) been compelled to accumulate many notes, and much miscellaneous information which does not bear upon the...

The Cambridge Medieval History - Book VI

by Norman Baynes, Christian Pfister, Rafael Altamira & L.M. Hartmann

AT the accession of Clovis, who succeeded his father Childeric about the year 481, the Salian Franks had advanced as far as the Somme. Between the Somme and the Loire the suzerainty of the Roman Empire was...

The Cambridge Medieval History - Book IV

by H.F. Stewart, W.R. Lethaby, F.J. Haverfield & F. Beck et al.

This process of history may be said to have entered on its effective stage in the West with Alaric's invasion of Italy. But it had been present, as a potentiality and a menace, for many years before Alaric heard...