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George Tucker (1775-1861) wrote A Voyage to the Moon: with Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and other Lunarians in 1827. A Voyage to the Moon was one of the earliest attempts at science fiction by an American author. Tucker is one of the first to use the concept of anti-gravity in this depiction of the effects of lesser gravity "I was astonished at first at this seeming increase in my...

A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817: With Notes Taken During a Tour Through Le Perche, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, Le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois, and the Environs of Paris is a book of notes taken while traveling through France. The author describes the villages and landmarks he visited. La Trappe, and the country of La Vendee made a lasting impression on Fellowes. The author also visited Convent of the Chartreux, Forests of ...

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At the end of A PRINCESS OF MARS, the first volume in Burroughs's Mars series, John Carter managed to get the factory that produces oxygen for Barsoom working again - and collapsed. When he came to, he found himself back on earth, and separated from his beloved Dejah Thoris, the Princess of Helium. It's a decade later when Carter returns to Barsoom, and he finds himself in that part of the planet that the natives consider to be "heaven" - whic...

Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (1854 ù 1914) wrote under the pseudonym L T Meade. She began writing as a teenager and produced more than 300 books in her career. Meade was the editor of the girlsZ magazine Atlanta. Her best-known book was A World of Girls published in 1886. Meade also coauthored several mysteries with Robert Eustace. Her books include A Knight of To-day (1877), Bel-Marjory (1878), Mou-setse: a Negro Hero (1880), Mother Herrin...

Hesba Stretton (1832-1911) was the pseudonym of Sarah Smith, an English author of children's literature. She is considered one of the most popular Evangelical writers in the nineteenth century. She used her "Christian principles as a protest against specific social evils in her children's books. An excerpt reads, "In the shop it was not yet so dark but that old Oliver could see his way out with the shutters, which during the day occupied a pla...

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Thorstein Veblen (1857 -1929) was a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist. He received his Ph.D. in 1884 at Yale University. In 1892, he became a professor at the University of Chicago. The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) is his most well known work. Veblen developed a 20th century evolutionary economics based upon Darwinian principles and new ideas emerging from anthropology, sociology, and psychology. An excerpt from the Introducti...

Charles King was a 19th century United States soldier and a distinguished writer. He graduated from West Point in 1866 and served in the Army during the Indian Wars under George Crook. During the Philippine-American War, King was placed in command of the 1st Brigade in Henry W. Lawton's division. He led his brigade during the Battle of Manila and sailed for Santa Cruz with Lawton's division. An Apache Princess is a tale of the Indian frontier ...

Charles Amory Beach wrote the Air Service Boys series for the Stratmeyer syndicate from 1918 to 1920. There are six books in the series including Air service boys over the enemy's lines: or, The German spy's secret, Air Service Boys Over the Rhine Or Fighting Above the Clouds, Air service boys flying for France, or, The young heroes of the Lafayette, Air service boys flying for victory, or, Bombing the last German stronghold, Air Service Boys ...

Lady (Mary Anne) Barker (1831-1911) wrote these letters to ôrecord the expeditions, adventures, and emergencies diversifying the daily life of the wife of a New Zealand sheep-farmer.ö It was a time in New Zealand when women shared with men the loneliness, difficulties and hazards of pioneering. BarkerZs letters show an excitement for her adventure in a new land and her delight in the things she saw.

Adventures in the Land of Canaan uses the analogy of the struggles of the Israelites and the struggles faced by Christians as they go from a life of sin to a life of sanctification. The Table of Contents includes Getting Ready to Enter Canaan, The Crossing of the Jordan, The Jordan Memorial Stone, Troubles of Lingering at the Crossing, Exploring Canaan by Faith, The Best Inheritance in Canaan, In the Hands of Giant Accuser, Conflicts with Gian...

Percy Greg (1836 - 1889) was an English writer who often wrote about politics. Across the Zodiac (1880) is an early science fiction novel, said to be the progenitor of the sword-and-planet genre. Greg created what may have been the first artistic language that was described with linguistic and grammatical terminology. The novel contained the first instance in the English language of the word "Astronaut".

Charles Warner was an American essayist in the late 1800Zs. As a boy he lived in Charlemont, Massachusetts: the scene of the experiences pictured in his study of childhood, Being a Boy (1877). He traveled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. Warner has written a travel book in which he wanders throughout Europe at a slow pace taking note to th...

Bunner Sisters explores the lives of the impoverished class in 1870s New York. Sisters Ann Eliza and Evelina run a small shop out of a shabby basement on a side street. Despite their misfortunes, they are happy in their small, supportive community of women. This bubble will soon be burst, however, as Ann Eliza and Evelina are faced with the harsh realities of the world that exists outside of their shop. A considerate exploration of American so...

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