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Progress and Poverty

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Henry George - 1879

This classic work is an enquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and the persistence of poverty amid advancing wealth.

Published in 1879, it was admired and advocated by great minds such as Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Leo Tolstoy and Sun Yat-sen in China.

The Light of Asia

Edwin Arnold - 1879

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Andersonville - Volume 3 A Story of Rebel Military Prisons

John McElroy - 1879

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers.

You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

A Southern Woman's Story

Phoebe Yates Pember - 1879

Phoebe Yates Levy Pember (1823 - 1913) was a member of a prominent American Jewish family from Charleston, South Carolina and a nurse and female administrator of Chimborazo Hospital at Richmond, Virginia during the American Civil War.

She assumed the responsibility informally at the age of 39 and eventually over 15,000 patients came under her direct care during the war. Pember remained at Chimborazo until the Confederate surrender in April 1865. She published her memoir soon after the war, in March 1866, serialized in a Baltimore magazine called The Cosmopolite as "Reminiscences of A Southern Hospital. By Its Matron." The memoir would later be published in book form as A Southern Woman's Story: Life in Confederate Richmond, in 1879. The memoir, which details her daily life through anecdotes of the war years, remains one of the best sources for understanding the experiences and ideas of upper-class Southern Jewish women before and during the Civil War.

Andersonville - Volume 2 A Story of Rebel Military Prisons

John McElroy - 1879

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers.

You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

The Little Dauphin (The Fatherland Series)

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Franz Hoffmann - 1879

This sobering story is not for the young or fainthearted.

Within its pages we see a unique account of the tumultuous years of the French Revolution written with corroboration of the jailers themselves. The Little Dauphin depicts the extremes of human character, from callous heartlessness to enduring courage. From the little Dauphin and his honorable father, we can learn to endure suffering and heartbreak with honor and humility, submitting ourselves to the will of the Lord, before whom one day every knee shall bow.