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A Short History of The World by H G WELLS
A Short History of the World is a period-piece non-fictional historic work by H. G. Wells. The book was largely inspired by Wells’s earlier 1919 work ‘The Outline of History’. The book summarises the scientific knowledge of the time regarding the history of Earth and life. It starts with its origins, goes on to explain the development of the Earth and life on Earth, reaching primitive thought and the development of humankind from the Cradle of Civilisation. The book ends with the outcome of the First World War, the Russian famine of 1921, and the League of Nations in 1922.
A Shropshire Lad by Ae Housman
First published in the year 1896, the present book ‘A Shropshire Lad’ is a collection of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman. After a slow beginning, it rapidly grew in popularity, particularly among young readers. Composers began setting the poems less than ten years after its first appearance. Many parodies have also been written that satirise Housman’s themes and stylistic characteristics.
A Simple Soul by Flaubert
For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the horse, fattened the poultry, made the butter and remained faithful to her mistress–although the latter was by no means an agreeable person. Madame Aubain had married a comely youth without any money, who died in the beginning of 1809, leaving her with two young children and a number of debts. She sold all her property excepting the farm of Toucques and the farm of Geffosses, the income of which barely amounted to 5,000 francs; then she left her house.
A Simple Soul by Gustave Flaubert
“A Simple Heart”, also called Un coeur simple or Le perroquet in French, is a story .
A Sketch of Assam by John James Butler
A book that gives a wanderer’s descriptions of his exploration of the tribes and scenery beauty of the forests and people of Assam. The main objective of this book is to make Assam better known, to remove some prejudices which exist against it, and preserve the memory of many remarkable scenes.
