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### A Highland Seer: Tea-Cup Reading and Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves, v.1, 14 June 2008

edited and uploaded by
vivaldirules

From Wikipedia:

> Tasseography (also known as tasseomancy or tassology) is a divination or fortune-telling method that interprets patterns in tea leaves, coffee grounds, or wine sediments. The terms derive from the French word tasse (cup), which in turn derives from the Arabic tassa (cup), and the Greek suffixes -graph, -logy, and -mancy (divination). The practice of tea leaf reading originated independently in Asia, the Middle East and Ancient Greece. Scotland, Ireland, and England have produced a number of practitioners and authors on the subject, and English potteries have crafted many beautiful tea cup sets specially designed and decorated to aid in fortune-telling. Cultures of the Middle East that practice divination in this fashion usually use left-over coffee grounds from Turkish coffee turned over onto a plate.

:tongue firmly in cheek: This is a sedimental work by A. Highland Seer (the slightly shorter twin brother of A. Lowland Seer) and was found in the dregs of Gutenberg. I love the illustrations but I believe there is an error in the interpretation of Figure 1 in Chapter V. I think that's Cthulhu and a couple of puddle ducks and that clearly must mean that the turner should wear a baby blue sailor outfit if he also wants to get to see the lambs and have ice cream on his birthday, too. I intend to faithfully learn this practice in order to accurately predict the outcome of Pshrynk's election when it happened.

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### A-No. 1 (AKA Leon R. Livingston): The Trail of the Tramp. 15 Oct 07

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RWood

Reality or hype, fact or fantasy? It is often hard to tell where one ends and another begins.
A-No. 1 is the most famous railroad tramp in US legend. Immortalized on film by Lee Marvin in King of the North Pole, A-No. 1 rode the rails for over 30 years throughout all parts of the US.
This is one set of his stories (and the only one I have ever found.)

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- The Trail of the Tramp.prc

### Abbot, Edwin: Flatland. v1. 02 Nov 07

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Stanart

Per Wikipedia:
"Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 novella by Edwin Abbott Abbott, still popular among mathematics and computer science students, and considered useful reading for people studying topics such as the concept of other dimensions. As a piece of literature, Flatland is respected for its satire on the social hierarchy of Victorian society."
I'm posting version 1.1 to correct the spelling of the author's name. I also made a couple of minor format changes. The previous version had 17 views.

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- Abbott_Flatland.prc

### Abbott, L.A: Seven Wives And Seven Prisons. v1, 16 Jan 2008

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Madam Broshkina

Subtitled: Or Experiences In The Life Of A Matrimonial Maniac. A True Story, written by Himself.
From the opening:
Some one has said that if any man would faithfully write his autobiography, giving truly his own history and experiences, the ills and joys, the haps and mishaps that had fallen to his lot, he could not fail to make an interesting story; and Disraeli makes Sidonia say that there is romance in every life. How much romance, as well as sad reality, there is in the life of a man who, among other experiences, has married seven wives, and has been seven times in prison-solely on account of the seven wives, may be learned from the pages that follow.

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### Adams, Andy: The Log of a Cowboy. v1. 22 Oct 07

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BenG

The Log of a Cowboy is an account of a five-month drive of 3,000 cattle from Brownsville, Texas, to Montana in 1882 along the Great Western Cattle Trail. Although the book is fiction, it is firmly based on Adams's own experiences on the trail, and it is considered by many to be the best account of cowboy life in literature. Adams was disgusted by the unrealistic cowboy fiction being published in his day; The Log of a Cowboy was his response. It is still in print, and even modern reviewers consider it a compelling classic. The Chicago Herald said: "As a narrative of cowboy life, Andy Adams' book is clearly the real thing. It carries its own certificate of authentic first-hand experience on every page."
It's a good read but it does contain stereotypes and some racial epithets, so be forewarned.

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- Adams_The Log Of A Cowboy.prc

### Adams, Henry: The Education of Henry Adams. v1, 2 Jan 2008

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Madam Broshkina

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp critique of 19th century educational theory and practice. In 1907, Adams began privately circulating copies of a limited edition printed at his own expense. Commercial publication had to await its author's 1918 death, whereupon it won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize.

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- Adams_Henry Adams.prc

### Adams, John Quincy. State of the Union Addresses. v1.0, 6 October 2007

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Nate the great

John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was a diplomat, politician, and the sixth President of the United States (March 4, 1825 – March 4, 1829).
from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Quincy_Adams

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- Adams_State of the Union.prc

### Adams, John. State of the Union Address. v1.0, 6 October 2007

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Nate the great

John Adams, Jr. (October 30, 1735 July 4, 1826) served as America's first Vice President (17891797) and as its second President (17971801). He was defeated for re-election in the "Revolution of 1800" by Thomas Jefferson. Adams was also the first President to reside in the newly built White House in Washington, D.C., which was completed in 1800.
Adams was a sponsor of the American Revolution in Massachusetts, and a diplomat and a rebel in the 1770s. He was a driving force for independence in 1776; Jefferson called him the "Colossus of Independence". He represented the Continental Congress in Europe. He was a major negotiator of the eventual peace treaty with Great Britain, and chiefly responsible for obtaining the loans from the Amsterdam money market necessary for the conduct of the Revolution. His prestige secured his two elections as Washington's Vice President and his election to succeed him. As President, he was frustrated by battles inside his own Federalist party against a faction led by Alexander Hamilton, but he broke with them to avert a major conflict with France in 1798, during the Quasi-War crisis. He became the founder of an important family of politicians, diplomats and historians, and in recent years his reputation has improved.
from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams

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- Adams_State of the Union.prc

### Adams, Samuel Hopkins: Average Jones. v1. 21 Aug 07

edited and uploaded by
HarryT

On the case from 1911 is the detective the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection called mystery master Samuel Hopkins Adams' "most famous creation," the man whose moniker totally belies his real character, that ratiocinating genius and member of the Cosmic Club, Adrian Van Reypen Egerton, or "Average" Jones as his friends shorten it. Here how the Enyclopedia describes his adventures, This handsome young advertising genius maintains a remarkable sense of humor throughout a series of unusual cases which often have a medical background. Match wits with Jones as he takes on the cases of The Red Spot, the Mercy Sign, the Blue Fires, the Million Dollar Dog, and others.
Enjoy!

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- Average Jones.prc (Note: this work is in the US public domain)

### Zola, Emile: Le Ventre de Paris. v1, 2 Jan 2008

edited and uploaded by
Madam Broshkina

Le Ventre de Paris est un roman d’Émile Zola publié en 1873, le troisième de la série Les Rougon-Macquart.
L’action se passe pour l’essentiel aux Halles centrales de Paris, construites par Victor Baltard entre 1854 et 1870, énorme bâtiment à structure métallique dans lequel les murs sont remplacés par des vitres, la plus grande innovation architecturale du Second Empire. Fasciné par les Halles, Zola en fait dans son roman une sorte de monstre, comme le seront plus tard le grand magasin dans Au Bonheur des Dames, l’alambic dans l'Assommoir ou la locomotive dans la Bête humaine.
Les membres de la famille des Rougon-Macquart ne jouent pas un rôle essentiel dans le roman : Lisa Macquart, une des sœurs de Gervaise (voir l'Assommoir), mariée à un nommé Quenu, y est une charcutière; on voit aussi apparaître sa fille, Pauline Quenu, qui sera l’héroïne de La Joie de vivre, et surtout Claude Lantier, jeune peintre, futur héros du roman

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- Zola_Le Ventre de Paris.prc

### Zola, Emile: Three Cities Trilogy. 18 Aug 07

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RWood

Written in 1894, 1896, and 1898 these three books provide "from ninety to one hundred characters in the story: sick persons, pilgrims, priests, nuns, hospitallers, nurses, and peasants; and the book shows Lourdes under every aspect. There are the piscinas, the processions, the Grotto, the churches at night, the people in the streets. It is, in one word, Lourdes in its entirety. In this canvas is worked out a very delicate central intrigue, as in 'Dr. Pascal,' and around this are many little stories or subsidiary plots. There is the story of the sick person who gets well, of the sick person who is not cured, and so on. The philosophical idea which pervades the whole book is the idea of human suffering, the exhibition of the desperate and despairing sufferers who, abandoned by science and by man, address themselves to a higher Power in the hope of relief; as where parents have a dearly loved daughter dying of consumption, who has been given up, and for whom nothing remains but death. A sudden hope, however, breaks in upon them: 'supposing that after all there should be a Power greater than that of man, higher than that of science.' They will haste to try this last chance of safety. It is the instinctive hankering after the lie which creates human credulity."
Yes, this is the same Zola who wrote J'accuse

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- Zola_The Three Cities Trilogy.prc

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