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Sherlock Holmes’ first case! If you’ve got to start somewhere, then why not the beginning? Continue reading
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Down the Great River by Captain Willard G. Glazier (1887)
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Embracing an account of the discovery of the true source of the Mississippi, together with views, descriptive and pictorial, of the cities, towns, villages, and scenery on the banks of the river, as seen during a canoe voyage of over … Continue reading
Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy (1887)
This is the tenth day of September in the year 2000, and you have slept exactly one hundred and thirteen years, three months, and eleven days. (19) As generally happens whenever I feel compelled to read a classic, I finally … Continue reading
She by H. Rider Haggard (1887)
“Better is an hour with love than a century of loneliness.” (153) Sometimes I wish my kids could grow up in the world of my grandparents or great-grandparents, where books were the natural go-to escape for a young mind, not … Continue reading