Animal Ghosts or Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by Elliot O’Donnell

The following excerpt is the Preface to the book Animal Ghosts or Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by Elliot O'Donnell. O'Donnell was born in 1872. He worked at one time as a police officer but later became a "ghost hunter." This piece [as are all of his works (to the best of my knowledge)] is non-fiction.

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Solitude by Henry David Thoreau

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INTELLECT By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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ON THE ART OF POETRY By Aristotle II.

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Origin of Printing by Frederick Saunders (1839)

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Film of Mark Twain 1909 Taken by Thomas Edison

Very interesting short clip of Mark Twain a year before he died.

The Story of a Speech by Mark Twain

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