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Authors: * Edwin A. Abbott * Swami Abhedananda * Thomas Richard Allinson * Roald E. G. Amundsen * Rasmus Björn Anderson * Victor Appleton (pseudonym) * Edwin Lester Linden Arnold * John Jacob Astor * Phineas Taylor Barnum * W. M. Baskervill * Edgar Rice Burroughs * René Descartes * Charles Dickens * Ignatius Donnelly * Sir Arthur Conan Doyle * Henry Ernest Dudeney * Albert Einstein * Sir Francis James Grant * Homer * Philip Kelland * Hendrik Antoon Lorentz * Alfred Thayer Mahan * Frank Millett Morgan * Richard A. Proctor * Apollonius Rhodius * Garrett P. Serviss * J. W. Sewell * Sir Ernest H. Shackleton * William Shakespeare * Adam Smith * Charles Turley Smith * Peter Guthrie Tait * Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot * Henry P. Talbot * Nikola Tesla * Cyrus Thomas * C. A. Toledano * Walter Kellogg Towers * Frederic George Trayes * George Tucker * Mark Twain * John Tyndall * Sun Tzu * Jules Verne * H. G. Wells * Rev. James Wood * John Wesley Young Titles: * The Nuttall Encyclopedia * Five Lectures on Reincarnation * Meditations on the First Philosophy * A Discourse on Method * The Principles of Philosophy * The Vital Message * The New Revelation * Theory of Moral Sentiments * First and Last Things * Norse mythology * God The Invisible King * Christian Science * The Manual of Heraldry * The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 * In The Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace * War and the Future * What is Coming? * Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons * A Visit to Three Fronts * Five Months on a German Raider * A Child's History of England * Types of Naval Officers * The Life Of Nelson, Volume I. * The Life Of Nelson, Volume II. * Pictures from Italy * A Summer Holiday in Scandinavia * On the Indian Hills * The Great Boer War * The Problem of Ohio Mounds * American Notes for General Circulation * The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence * The Navy In The Civil War: The Gulf And Inland Waters * Life on the Mississippi * Following the Equator * South Pole, Volume 1 * South Pole, Volume 2 * The Voyages of Captain Scott * South! * The Antediluvian World * Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel * Floor Games * The Wealth of Nations * Political Economy for the People * The Art of Money Getting * Mankind in the Making * The Opium Question Solved * Chance and Luck * Modern Utopia * The Argonautica * The Iliad * The Odyssey * Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar * An English Grammar * Roget's Thesaurus * Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary 1913 * A Fairy Tale in Two Acts * Pericles Prince of Tyre * The Reign of King Edward the Third * Fair Em * The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine * The Merry Devil of Edmonton * Mucedorus * The Puritan Widow * Sir Thomas More * The Life and Death of The Lord Cromwell * The Two Noble Kinsmen * A Yorkshire Tragedy * Poems * The First Folio {35 Plays} * Speeches: Literary and Social * Songs of Action * An Englishman Looks at the World * What Is Man? and Other Essays * Innocents Abroad * Roughing It * A Tramp Abroad * Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography * Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion * Mark Twain's Speeches * The Younger Edda * Lepidus the Centurion * Gulliver of Mars * A Journey in Other Worlds * A Happy Boy * A Princess of Mars * At the Earth's Core * Jungle Tales of Tarzan * Out of Time's Abyss * Pellucidar * Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar * Tarzan of the Apes * Tarzan the Terrible * Tarzan the Untamed * The Beasts of Tarzan * The Chessmen of Mars * The Efficiency Expert * The Gods of Mars * The Land that Time Forgot * The Lost Continent * The Mad King * The Monster Men * The Mucker * The Oakdale Affair * The Outlaw of Torn * The People That Time Forgot * The Return of Tarzan * The Son of Tarzan * The Warlord of Mars * Thuvia, Maid of Mars * A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court * A Double Barreled Detective * A Horse's Tale * Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories * Huckleberry Finn * Other Short Stories * Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc * Sketches New and Old * The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories * The Adventures of Tom Sawyer * The American Claimant * The Curious Republic Of Gondour * The Gilded Age * The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories * The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories * The Prince and the Pauper * The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson * Those Extraordinary Twins * Tom Sawyer Abroad * Tom Sawyer, Detective * A Christmas Carol * A House to Let * A Message from the Sea * A Tale of Two Cities * Barnaby Rudge * Bleak House * David Copperfield * Doctor Marigold * Dombey and Son * George Silverman's Explanation * Going into Society * Great Expectations * Hard Times * Holiday Romance In Four Parts * Hunted Down * Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit * Little Dorrit * Master Humphrey's Clock * Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy * Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings * Mugby Junction * No Thoroughfare * Oliver Twist * Our Mutual Friend * Reprinted Pieces * Sketches by Boz * Some Short Christmas Stories * Somebody's Luggage * Sunday Under Three Heads * The Battle of Life * The Chimes * The Cricket on the Hearth * The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain * The Holly-Tree * The Lamplighter * The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices * The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby * The Loving Ballad Of Lord Bateman * The Mystery of Edwin Drood * The Old Curiosity Shop * The Perils of Certain English Prisoners * The Pickwick Papers * The Seven Poor Travelers * The Uncommercial Traveler * The Wreck of the Golden Mary * Three Ghost Stories * To Be Read At Dusk * Tom Tiddler's Ground * Caesar's Column * A Duet * A Study in Scarlet * Beyond the City * Challenger Short Stories * His Last Bow * Micah Clarke * Rodney Stone * Round The Red Lamp * Sir Nigel * Tales of Terror and Mystery * The Adventures of Gerard * The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes * The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales * The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes * The Doings of Raffles Haw * The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard * The Firm of Girdlestone * The Great Shadow * The Green Flag * The Hound of the Baskervilles * The Land of Mists * The Last Galley * The Lost World * The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes * The Mystery of Cloomber * The Mystery of Sasassa Valley * The Parasite * The Poison Belt * The Refugees * The Return of Sherlock Holmes * The Sign of the Four * The Stark Munro Letters * The Tragedy of The Korosko * The Valley of Fear * The White Company * Uncle Bernac * A Columbus of Space * Edison's Conquest of Mars * The Moon Metal * The Second Deluge * A Voyage to the Moon * A Journey into the Interior of the Earth * A Voyage in a Balloon * An Antarctic Mystery * Around the World in 80 Days * Claudius Bombarnac, Special Correspondent * Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen * Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon * Facing the Flag * Five Weeks in a Balloon * In Search of the Castaways * Michael Strogoff * Off on a Comet * Robur the Conqueror * The Blockade Runners * The Child of the Caverns * The Field of Ice * The Fur Country * The Lottery Ticket * The Master of the World * The Moon-Voyage * The Mysterious Island * The Survivors of the Chancellor * The Waif of the Cynthia * Topsy Turvy * Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas * Ann Veronica * In the Days of the Comet * Love and Mr. Lewisham * More Short Stories * Mr. Britling Sees It Through * The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories * The First Men in the Moon * The Food of the Gods * The History of Mr. Polly * The Invisible Man * The Island of Doctor Moreau * The New Machiavelli * The Research Magnificent * The Secret Places of the Heart * The Sleeper Awakes * The Soul of a Bishop * The Time Machine * The War in the Air * The War of the Worlds * The Wheels of Chance * The World Set Free * Tono-Bungay * When the Sleeper Wakes * Tom Swift and His Motorcycle * Tom Swift and His Motorboat * Tom Swift and His Airship * Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat * Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout * Tom Swift and His Wireless Message * Tom Swift Among The Diamond Makers * Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice * Tom Swift and His Sky Racer * Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle * Tom Swift in the City Of Gold * Tom Swift and His Air Glider * Tom Swift in Captivity * Tom Swift and his Wizard Camera * Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight * Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon * Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone * Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship * Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel * Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders * Tom Swift and His War Tank * Tom Swift and His Air Scout * Tom Swift and His Undersea Search * Tom Swift among the Fire Fighters * Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive * The Moving Picture Boys at Panama * The Moving Picture Boys on the War Front * Amusements In Mathematics * Introduction to Quaternions * Elementary Mathematical Analysis * Plane Trigonometry and Numerical Computation * Flatland * Curiosities of the Sky * Half-hours with the Telescope * Relativity: The Special and General Theory * Sidelights on Relativity * The Einstein Theory of Relativity * Why War? * Faraday as Discoverer * Six Lectures On Light * Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency * An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis * The Railway Conquest of the World * Masters of Space * The Allinson Vegetarian Cookery Book * The Art of War * Little Wars * Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War * The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future * Through the Magic Door