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| Jerome K.Jerome (1859 - 1927) |
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The trip has been recreated many times since most recently in 2005 for the BBC. Quotes and references turn up regularly, ranging from references in Robert A. Heinlein's 1958 Have space suit will travel through to the 2006 film Pirates of the Caribbean. |
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| To Have and To Hold |
| Mary Johnston (1870 - 1936) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1900.
English soldier turned Virginia explorer unknowingly becomes entangled in royal intrigue when he makes a quick marriage.
The author drives the plot through a series of adventures, each revealing more of the essential nature of the characters.
One Americas most popular historical novels and very hard to put down.
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| Dogland http://qwertyranch.blogspot.com/2007/07/dogland.html |
| Will Shetterly ( - ) http://qwertyranch.blogspot.com/ |
Will Shetterly is a Minnesota gubernatorial candidate and author of many novels
The floridian magical realism of Dogland follows the Nix family as they move across the country to create DOGLAND and the US moves into the turbulent sixties
Though the novels setting in a tourist attraction featuring hundreds of dog breeds might seem pure whimsy, it is apparently autobiographical.
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| Antwerp to Gallipoli |
| Arthur Ruhl (1876 - 1935) |
An account of Ruhl's experiences in almost all WWI's hot spots.
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| Five Months at Anzac |
| Joseph Lievesley Beeston (1859 - 1921) |
The personal account of a field ambulance commander.
It’s full of humour and sympathy for both sides.
The Australian love of swimming and the beach makes an appearance, even though the beach was in the line of fire of Turkish positions.
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| A Treatise of Human Nature |
| David Hume (1711 - 1776) |
Many scholars today consider the Treatise to be Hume's most important work and one of the most important books in the history of philosophy. |
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| An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (vol 2) |
| John Locke (1632 - 1704) |
This essay is Locke's most famous work. It concerns that nature of human knowledge and understanding. It was one of the primary sources for empiricism, influenced many enlightenment philosophers like David Hume and Bishop Berkeley. The main thrust of the essay is that man does not have innate ideas or principals, that all are developed by experience. Volume one is devoted to disproving the theory of innate ideas. Volume two shows how ideas, principals, and morals are formed from experience. |
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