18 books like John Brown's Body
The lays of ancient Rome, with Ivry and the armada
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The Crisis
"The novel is set in the years leading up to the first battles of the U.S. Civil War, mostly in the divided state of Missouri. It follows the fortunes of young Stephen Brice, a man with Union and abolitionist sympathies, and his involvement with a Southern family."--Wikipedia
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The Courtship of Miles Standish
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Marmion
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Drum-taps
"Walt Whitman worked as a nurse in an army hospital during the Civil War and published Drum-Taps, his war poems, as the war was coming to an end. Later, the book came out in an expanded form, including 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd,' Whitman's passionate elegy for Lincoln. The most moving and enduring poetry to emerge from America's most tragic conflict, Drum-Taps also helped to…
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Coach
Coach
Now, for the first time, the complete story of A.L. Williams, told by the Coach himself!
Art Williams shares the inspirational story of what it took to build a tiny "peanut" of a company into an industry giant. Full of heroes and villains, amazing victories and dashing defeats, this book is a must-read for anyone who's ever dreamed of building a team, of winning big, of doing what others said…
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The Song of Hiawatha and Other Poems
Poetry and prose written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
List of Poems:
The song of Hiawatha
Evangeline
The courtship of Miles Standish
The village blacksmith
A Psalm of life
The rainy day
The light of stars
God's acre
The reaper and the flowers
The wreck of the Hesperus
The arrow and the song
Footsteps of angels
Endymion
The arsenal at Springfield
In the churchyard at…
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Abraham Lincoln
This definitive, single-volume edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography delivers “a Lincoln whom no other man . . . could have given us” (New York Herald Tribune Book Review).
Celebrated for his vivid depictions of the nineteenth-century American Midwest, Carl Sandburg brings unique insight to the life of Abraham Lincoln in this distinguished biography. He captures both the man who grew…
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The last American vampire
"The follow-up to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter--a sweeping, alternate history of 20th Century America as seen through the eyes of vampire Henry Sturges. He is searching for renewed purpose in the wake of his friend Abraham Lincoln's shocking death. It will be an expansive journey that will first send him to England for an unexpected encounter with Jack the Ripper, then to New York City for the…
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The Way of a Man
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A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the…
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Wallenstein
»Wallensteins Tod« ist der dritte Teil von Friedrich Schillers 1798/99 uraufgeführtem und im Jahr 1800 erschienenem dreiteiligen monumentalen Versdrama »Wallenstein«, dessen ersten beiden Teile »Wallensteins Lager« und »Die Piccolomini« sind. Angeregt durch historische Studien, die in sein Werk »Geschichte des Dreißigjährigen Krieges« (1790–92) mündeten, behandelt Schiller die letzten drei…
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The Billion-Dollar Molecule
The Billion-Dollar Molecule
The Billion-Dollar Molecule raises the curtain on the fascinating and tumultuous drama of a radically new start-up pharmaceutical company. That company, Vertex, is trying to design a lifesaving new drug that - if it works - will prove the potential of a brand-new drug-making technique and also fulfill the vision of Vertex's founder and chairman, Joshua Boger, one of the most promising scientists…
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac
A Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne. The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. A sort of tennis-court arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance. The hall is oblong and seen obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background makes an angle with the stage, which is partly visible. On both sides of the stage are benches.…
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Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell was a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Brontë sisters,  Charlotte,  Emily and Anne in 1846 (see 1846 in poetry), and their first work to ever go in print. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Brontë sisters adopted androgynous first names. All three retained the…
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The Lady of the Rivers
The Lady of the Rivers
The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg, and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, who was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her household for love, and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjou's…
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The Awful Secret
The Awful Secret
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The Complete Poetical Works
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