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Sunday August 15, 2010
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This Week's Featured Books

Fiction
- Ulysses, James Joyce
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
- Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen

Non Fiction
- The Ancient East, D. G. Hogarth
- Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV and the Regency, Duchesse d'Orleans
- Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 1, Thomas Jefferson

Short Stories
- Old Peter's Russian Tales, Arthur Ransome
- The Happy Prince and Other Tales, Oscar Wilde
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle

Poetry
- Poems, 1817, John Keats
- Sonnets, William Shakespeare
- Three Series, Complete, Emily Dickinson

Plays
- The Miser, Moliere
- The Tragedy of Macbeth, William Shakespeare
- Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand

Sci Fi
- Michael Strogoff, Jules Verne
- When the World Shook, H. Rider Haggard
- The Mysterious Island, Jules Verne

Philosophy
- Varieties of Religious Experience, William James
- Bible - Book 01: Genesis, Challoner Revision
- Selections from the Principles of Philosophy, Rene Descartes

Religion
- Bible - Book 10: 2 Samuel, Challoner Revision
- Bible - Book 69: 1 John, Challoner Revision
- Bible - Book 70: 2 John, Challoner Revision

Biography
- Cleopatra, Jacob Abbott
- Famous Men of the Middle Ages, John H. Haaren
- A Personal Record, Joseph Conrad

Daniel Defoe

(c. 1660 - 1731)

Daniel Foe added the "De" to his last name in an attempt to sound more aristocratic. He was sent to prison for what were considered inappropriate political activities, but was released in exchange for being an intelligence agent for the Earl of Oxford. Besides his famous "Robinson Crusoe," which may have been based partly on a true story, he also wrote the novel "Moll Flanders" and an account of the Black Plague. The exact date of his death is uncertain.

Featured Book and Quizzes

Featured book by Daniel Defoe: The Consolidator

This week's quizzes:
Pride and Prejudice
Sherlock Holmes
Famous Pseudonyms

This Week's Birthday

Sir Walter Scott -- August 15, 1771
Poet, writer, and storyteller whose favorite topic was his homeland of Scotland.
Read Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott at BookDaily.

T.E. Lawrence -- August 15, 1888
British adventurer and archaeologist, known best as "Lawrence of Arabia."
H.P. Lovecraft -- August 20, 1890
American macabre poet and author, one of the greatest figures in the horror genre.
Read The Best of H.P. Lovecraft at BookDaily.

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