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Jack London The Red One

Short Story
English
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Ages 18 and up
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"The Red One" is a short story by Jack London. It was first published in the October 1918 issue of The Cosmopolitan,[1] two years after London's death. The story was reprinted in the same year by MacMillan, in a collection of London's stories of the same name.[2] The story is told from the perspective of a scientist called Bassett, who is on an expedition in the jungle of Guadalcanal to collect butterflies. The "Red One" of the title refers to a giant red sphere, of apparently extraterrestrial origin, that the headhunting natives worship as their god and to which they perform human sacrifices. Bassett becomes obsessed with the Red One and in the end is sacrificed himself. [more]

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Richard Short Saronia

A Romance of Ancient Ephesus

Fiction
English
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Ages 18 and up
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Richard Ian Porterfield Short (born 8 October 1975) is an English actor based in Los Angeles. In 2015 he will be seen on Agent Carter on ABC and in the independent films A New York Love Story, Cockroaches, and The Butterflies of Bill Baker. On television he has had recurring roles on Covert Affairs and 666 Park Avenue, and has appeared on American Horror Story, White Collar, andBlue Bloods. Short has appeared in more than 30 films and television shows in the USA and UK. On Broadway, he was a member of the 2011 company of Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem at the Music Box Theatre. [more]

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Grant Allen Philistia (fiscle part-IV) Of 1

Philosophy
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It Was Sunday Evening, And On Sundays Max Schurz, The Chief Of The London Socialists, Always Held His Weekly Receptions. That Night His Cosmopolitan Refugee Friends Were All At Liberty; His French Disciples Could Pour In from The Little Lanes And Courts In soho, Where, Since The Commune, They Had Plied their Peaceful Trades As Engravers, Picture-Framers, Artists'-Colourmen, Models, Pointers, And So Forth--For Most Of Them Were Hangers-On In one Way Or Another Of The Artistic World; His German Adherents Could Stroll Round, Pipe In mouth, From Their Printing-Houses, Their Ham-And-Beef Shops, Or Their Naturalists' Chambers, Where They Stuffed birds Or Set Up Exotic Butterflies In little Cabinets--For Most Of Them Were More Or Less Literary Or Scientific In their Pursuits; And His Few English Sympathisers, Chiefly Dissatisfied philosophical Radicals Of The Upper Classes, Could Drop In casually For A Chat And A Smoke, On Their Way Home From The Churches To Which They Had Been Dutifully Escorting Their Un-Emancipated wives And Sisters. [more]

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Grant Allen Philistia (fiscle Part-11)

Religion
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Ages 18 and up
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It Was Sunday Evening, And On Sundays Max Schurz, The Chief Of The London Socialists, Always Held His Weekly Receptions. That Night His Cosmopolitan Refugee Friends Were All At Liberty; His French Disciples Could Pour In from The Little Lanes And Courts In soho, Where, Since The Commune, They Had Plied Their Peaceful Trades As Engravers, Picture-Framers, Artists'-Colourmen, Models, Pointers, And So Forth--For Most Of Them Were Hangers-On In one Way Or Another Of The Artistic World; His German Adherents Could Stroll Round, Pipe In mouth, From Their Printing-Houses, Their Ham-And-Beef Shops, Or Their Naturalists' Chambers, Where They Stuffed Birds Or Set Up Exotic Butterflies In little Cabinets--For Most Of Them Were More Or Less Literary Or Scientific In their Pursuits; And His Few English Sympathisers, Chiefly Dissatisfied Philosophical Radicals Of The Upper Classes, Could Drop In casually For A Chat And A Smoke, On Their Way Home From The Churches To Which They Had Been Dutifully Escorting their Un-Emancipated Wives And Sisters. [more]

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Lucien Biart Adventures of a Young Naturalist

Travel
English
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Ages 18 and up
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fer not to think of you," he responded. "You would rather, then, that I staid at Orizava?" "Oh no; I should like you to go, and--to go with you." "What can you be thinking of? Before we were a mile on the road you would be knocked up, complaining of heat, thirst, fatigue--" "That's quite a mistake, dear father. I know I should be very useful to you, if you would only take me. I could pick up wood, light the fire, and look after the cooking, besides catching butterflies and insects, both for your collection and mine." "That's all very well; but the first time you were scratched by a thorn you would cry." "Oh father! I promise you I will never cry, except when--I can't help it." I could not resist smiling at this answer. "Then it is a settled thing, and I am to go with you," exclaimed Lucien. "We must consult your mother, and if she sees no objection, I--" The child ran off without allowing me to finish my sentence. While I we [more]

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William Curtis The Botanical Magazine, Vol. I

Flower-Garden Displayed

Fiction
English
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William Curtis (11 January 1746 – 7 July 1799) was an English botanist and entomologist, who was born at Alton, Hampshire. Curtis began as an apothecary, before turning his attention to botany and other natural history. The publications he prepared effectively reached a wider audience than early works on the subject had intended.[1] At the age of 25 he produced Instructions for collecting and preserving insects; particularly moths and butterflies.[2] Curtis was demonstrator of plants and Praefectus Horti at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1771 to 1777. He established his own London Botanic Garden at Lambeth in 1779, moving to Brompton in 1789. He published Flora Londinensis (6 volumes, 1777–1798), a pioneering work in that it devoted itself to urban nature. Financial success was not found, but he went on the publish The Botanical Magazine in 1787, a work that would also feature hand coloured plates by artists such as James Sowerby, Sydenham Edwards, and William Kilburn. [more]

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William Curtis The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 3

Flower-Garden Displayed

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English
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William Curtis (11 January 1746 – 7 July 1799) was an English botanist and entomologist, who was born at Alton, Hampshire. Curtis began as an apothecary, before turning his attention to botany and other natural history. The publications he prepared effectively reached a wider audience than early works on the subject had intended.[1] At the age of 25 he produced Instructions for collecting and preserving insects; particularly moths and butterflies.[2] Curtis was demonstrator of plants and Praefectus Horti at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1771 to 1777. He established his own London Botanic Garden at Lambeth in 1779, moving to Brompton in 1789. He published Flora Londinensis (6 volumes, 1777–1798), a pioneering work in that it devoted itself to urban nature. Financial success was not found, but he went on the publish The Botanical Magazine in 1787, a work that would also feature hand coloured plates by artists such as James Sowerby, Sydenham Edwards, and William Kilburn. [more]

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William Curtis The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 4

Flower-Garden Displayed

Fiction
English
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William Curtis (11 January 1746 – 7 July 1799) was an English botanist and entomologist, who was born at Alton, Hampshire. Curtis began as an apothecary, before turning his attention to botany and other natural history. The publications he prepared effectively reached a wider audience than early works on the subject had intended.[1] At the age of 25 he produced Instructions for collecting and preserving insects; particularly moths and butterflies.[2] Curtis was demonstrator of plants and Praefectus Horti at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1771 to 1777. He established his own London Botanic Garden at Lambeth in 1779, moving to Brompton in 1789. He published Flora Londinensis (6 volumes, 1777–1798), a pioneering work in that it devoted itself to urban nature. Financial success was not found, but he went on the publish The Botanical Magazine in 1787, a work that would also feature hand coloured plates by artists such as James Sowerby, Sydenham Edwards, and William Kilburn. [more]

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William Curtis The Botanical Magazine v 2

Flower-Garden Displayed

Fiction
English
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William Curtis (11 January 1746 – 7 July 1799) was an English botanist and entomologist, who was born at Alton, Hampshire. Curtis began as an apothecary, before turning his attention to botany and other natural history. The publications he prepared effectively reached a wider audience than early works on the subject had intended.[1] At the age of 25 he produced Instructions for collecting and preserving insects; particularly moths and butterflies.[2] Curtis was demonstrator of plants and Praefectus Horti at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1771 to 1777. He established his own London Botanic Garden at Lambeth in 1779, moving to Brompton in 1789. He published Flora Londinensis (6 volumes, 1777–1798), a pioneering work in that it devoted itself to urban nature. Financial success was not found, but he went on the publish The Botanical Magazine in 1787, a work that would also feature hand coloured plates by artists such as James Sowerby, Sydenham Edwards, and William Kilburn. [more]

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William Curtis The Botanical Magazine Vol. 8

Flower-Garden Displayed

Fiction
English
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Ages 18 and up
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William Curtis (11 January 1746 – 7 July 1799) was an English botanist and entomologist, who was born at Alton, Hampshire. Curtis began as an apothecary, before turning his attention to botany and other natural history. The publications he prepared effectively reached a wider audience than early works on the subject had intended.[1] At the age of 25 he produced Instructions for collecting and preserving insects; particularly moths and butterflies.[2] Curtis was demonstrator of plants and Praefectus Horti at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1771 to 1777. He established his own London Botanic Garden at Lambeth in 1779, moving to Brompton in 1789. He published Flora Londinensis (6 volumes, 1777–1798), a pioneering work in that it devoted itself to urban nature. Financial success was not found, but he went on the publish The Botanical Magazine in 1787, a work that would also feature hand coloured plates by artists such as James Sowerby, Sydenham Edwards, and William Kilburn. [more]

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