Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
A river memoir documenting Twain’s early days as an apprentice steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil […]
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The Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophise with the Hammer by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess
The Burgess Bird Book for Children is a zoology book written in the form of a story featuring Peter Rabbit. […]Read more