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Phantasmagoria is a poem written by Lewis Carroll and first published in 1869 as the opening poem of a collection of verse by Carroll entitled Phantasmagoria and Other Poems. The collection was also published under the name Rhyme? And Reason? It is Lewis Carroll's longest poem. Both the poem and the collection were illustrated by A. B. Frost... 1zu4m
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Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing is an essay by Lewis Carroll on useful tips for composing, writing, mailing, and recording letters. The essay was published in 1890 by Emberlin and Son as a hardcover booklet consisting of 35 pages of text, followed by four pages of advertising, three pages of illustration, a stamp holder, and an illust..
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Feeding the Mind is a note on his books written by Lewis Carroll himself. The history of this little sparkle from the pen of Lewis Carroll may soon be told. It was in October of the year 1884 that he came on a visit to a certain vicarage in Derbyshire, where he had promised, on the score of friendship, to do what was for him a most unusual favour—t..
Wilkie Collins 6r6r4r
Preface from the book: We hear a great deal of lamentation now-a-days, proceeding mostly from elderly people, on the decline of the Art of Conversation among us. Old ladies and gentlemen with vivid recollections of the charms of society fifty years ago, are constantly asking each other why the great talkers of their youthful days have found no succ..
Bertrand Russell 3a5m33
Free Thought and Official Propaganda is a speech delivered in 1922 by Bertrand Russell on the importance of unrestricted freedom of expression in society, and the problem of the state and political class interfering in this through control of education, fines, economic leverage, and distortion of evidence...
William Osler 5q5k1a
Man's Redemption of Man: A Lay Sermon is a medical address to students by Sir William Osler, a Canadian physician, one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital and the first to bring medical students out of lecture hall for medical training. His other works include "The progress of the Century", "The Evolution of modern Medici..
Upton Sinclair 5x1z
The social body to which we belong is at this moment ing through one of the greatest crises of its history, a colossal process which may best be likened to a birth. We have each of us a share in this process, we are to a greater or less extent responsible for its course. To make our judgments, we must have reports from other parts of the social..
Palmer Cox 696f3j
Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture written by Palmer Cox who is the author of “QUEER PEOPLE,” “THE BROWNIES,” ETC., ETC. Not only is truth stranger than fiction, but it is funnier also. Just as some men have no eye for colors, but are color blind; so some men have no eye for fun, but are fun blind. Happy is the man who can see the hum..