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The novel follows Joseph Adams, a young carpenter’s apprentice returning home through a country town after work. In the market square, he comes upon a group of boys mocking and attacking an elderly man known for collecting rubbish, and he steps in to defend him. The opening establishes Joseph’s strength, music-loving nature, and readiness to stand up for the helpless.
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This book presents the life and travels of Titus Coan, an American missionary whose early training, strength, and religious conviction prepared him for foreign service. It describes his selection for an exploratory mission to Patagonia after reports of a possible field there, his brief experience in that region, and his return to the United States before later missionary work in the Hawaiian Islands. The narrative also sketches his quick mastery of language, his practical care for the people he served, and the long course of his service among them.
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Nat Fleischer’s autobiography looks back on five decades of sports reporting, with boxing at its center. It gathers eyewitness accounts, behind-the-scenes stories, and reflections on champions, promoters, managers, and the changing eras of the sport. The book presents boxing as a world of controversy, hero worship, color, and human interest drawn from a long career at ringside.
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Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler’s memoir reflects on her long campaign against a social system connected with prostitution and the legal control of women and girls in Britain and beyond. It also presents her family background, early life in Northumberland, and the formative influence of her parents, especially her father’s opposition to oppression and injustice. The book is framed as a remembrance of a public struggle whose principles, it says, still need defending.
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Das Stück ist ein utopisches Kollektivdrama in drei Aufzügen in deutscher Übersetzung von Otto Pick. Es spielt in der Zentrale von Werstands Universal Robots und zeigt eine Fabrikwelt, in der Roboter in großer Zahl produziert, vermarktet und an Kunden in verschiedenen Ländern geliefert werden. Zu den Figuren gehören Fabrikleiter und Techniker ebenso wie Helene Glory, die die Anlage besuchen möchte und auf die Geheimhaltung der künstlichen Menschen stößt.
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A Western mystery told by Sleepy Stevens centers on his work with Hashknife Hartley for the Triangle A outfit and on a newspaper notice about a silver-mounted saddle. The story also sketches the rough reputations of the two riders and then turns to a round-up show in Pemberton, where they enter a bucking contest and face fierce outlaw broncs while trying to secure the saddle prize.
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Edward Carpenter’s memoir traces his life in distinct periods, beginning with an uncomfortable childhood in Brighton amid strict social conventions and a sense of alienation at home and school. He also reflects on his early attraction to religion and his intention to take Orders, then outlines later phases spent at Cambridge, in extension lecturing in northern England, and among working people while engaged in manual labour. The book is presented as autobiographical notes written over time, with occasional dates added to clarify chronology.
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Set in the Montana cattle country of Piperock and Yellow Rock County, this western centers on sheriff Magpie Simpkins and his associate Ike Harper as they deal with repeated cattle thefts. A self-styled preacher known as Obadiah Ezekiel Moses, or the Bringer of Light, arrives in town, and his arrival overlaps with talk of rustlers, missing cows, and the county’s need for help. The story also brings in Scenery Sims, one of the cattlemen involved in seeking a detective to track the thieves.
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After her father’s funeral, Lilah Norris returns to his New York apartment and takes stock of the life he left behind. She reflects on their difficult bond, his love of books, and the fact that he has left her without money, even as she feels newly free and intent on shaping her own future. The opening centers on her self-awareness, grief, and restless sense of possibility in 1920s New York society.
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This volume presents an English edition of Plato’s works, with editorial notes, corrected printing errors, and introductions that briefly outline the arguments of each dialogue. It explains that the translator aimed to stay close to the Greek original while retaining the London division into sections. The included material also focuses on Socrates’ trial and defence, describing the charges against him and the arguments made in response.
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This study examines craft-gilds in thirteenth-century Paris as organized bodies of masters, journeymen, and apprentices bound by rules and supervision. It describes their efforts to protect labor rights, regulate trade, exclude outsiders, and secure control or even monopoly over their crafts. The discussion also distinguishes the gild from the commune and surveys theories about guild origins and early Parisian charters.
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This book presents the first hundred years of Moorfields Eye Hospital after its founding in 1805, the world’s first hospital devoted to a single specialty, ophthalmology. It aims to record the hospital’s traditions while also tracing the people and developments tied to nineteenth-century ophthalmology. The narrative is arranged chronologically and draws on committee minutes, annual reports, biographies, and other historical sources, beginning with the institution’s early promoters and figures such as John Cunningham Saunders and Astley Cooper.
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Harry Alverson Franck’s travel account follows his journey through French Indochina, especially Annam, Cambodia, Laos, and Saigon. He presents the region as a distinct colonial world east of Siam and contrasts it with China and other Asian lands, while describing shipboard travel, local landscapes, and the people he encounters along the way.
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A comic Western set around the Seven-A cattle outfit in Montana, the story follows Chuck Warner, a lanky, hard-luck puncher, and his companion Weinie Lopp as they wait at Curlew for a freight and a ranch delivery. When two mismatched women arrive with six trunks and ask for transport, the cowboys try to puzzle out who they are and what they want, while the women quickly take charge of the situation. The opening establishes ranch life, Chuck’s fondness for singing, and the tensions and humor that arise when women unexpectedly enter the outfit’s routine.
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W. C. Tuttle’s short story follows three miners at Trinity Creek: Ng Loy, an old Chinese placer miner, and Lars Anderson and Jimmy Mulcahy, a superstitious Swedish-Irish partnership. When a blizzard traps Lars and Jimmy with dwindling food and broken snowshoes, they set out across the storm to reach their cache and instead stumble onto Loy’s cabin, where they are taken in just in time.
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