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Featured text Poems by Wilfred Owen; with an introduction by Siegfried Sassoon and a portrait of the author. "He was a man of absolute integrity of mind. He never wrote his poems (as so many war-poets did) to make the effect of a personal gesture. He pitied others; he did not pity himself. In the last year of his life he attained a clear vision of what he needed to say, and these poems survive him as his true and splendid testament."—Sassoon "In writing an introduction such as this it is good to be brief. The poems printed in this book need no preliminary commendations from me or anyone else. The author has left us his own fragmentary but impressive Foreword; this, and his Poems, can speak for him, backed by the authority of his experience as an infantry soldier, and sustained by nobility and originality of style."—Siegfried Sassoon Read on... or see all featured texts.

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New texts The Last of the Tasmanians (James Bonwick, 1870) Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son (George Horace Lorimer, 1902) Draft Will of James Smithson (James Smithson, 1826) Indiscretions of Archie (P. G. Wodehouse, 1921) Life and Adventures of William Buckley (John Morgan, 1852) The Secret of Kralitz (Henry Kuttner, 1936) Our Common Land (and other short essays) (Octavia Hill, 1877) A partial listing of some new texts (add)

Collaboration The current Community collaboration is collecting texts related to … WikiProject NARA Recent collaborations: Disney, Domesday survey, Niccolò Machiavelli The current Proofread of the Month is Life of Octavia Hill as told in her letters  (1875) by Octavia Hill. Recent collaborations:Homes of the London Poor, Our Common Land (and other short essays), The Corsair, The Merry Muses of Caledonia, Sawdust and Spangles, Natural History, Mollusca, A Desk-Book of Errors in English, Yule Logs, English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the nineteenth century, Ninety-three, The World's Famous Orations, vol. 6.

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