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The Library
by Stuart Murray
On a December night in 1853, gangs of diggers labored with pick and shovel by the light of oil lamps to fill baskets and...
Penny rate: aspects of British public library history, 1850-...
by William Arthur Munford
She
by H. Rider Haggard
In giving to the world the record of what, looked at as an adventure only, is I suppose one of the most wonderful and my...
Sets of maps in the Map Room
by Birmingham Public Libraries. History and Geography Department.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...
by Edward Gibbon
IN the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most ...
The History of Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding
AN author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who...
A Child's History of England
by Charles Dickens
IF you look at a Map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands ly...
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these page...
A single shard
by Linda Sue Park
"Eh, Tree-ear! Have you hungered well today?" Craneman called out as Tree-ear drew near the bridge.
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