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Andrew Lang - Story of Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc is a folk heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. Claiming divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, which paved the way for the...

timothyFR 2 hours 6 minutes

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Grant M. Overton - Women Who Make Our Novels

”This book, the rather unpremeditated production of several months’ work, is by a man who is not a novelist and who is therefore entirely unfitted to write about women who are novelists.” The author is a literary...

MaryAnn and 13 more 10 hours 20 minutes

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Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - Memoirs of Napoleon, Vol. 1

The author and Napoleon become boyhood friends when they are eight years old in Corsica. They separate when Napoleon is transferred from the Military College of Brienne to another college in Paris in 1784. Napoleon...

Tom Geller and 5 more 3 hours 31 minutes

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Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect

Humorous Fiction

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Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect

A comic dialogue written in John Collier's idiosyncratic version of the 18th century South Lancashire dialect together with a collection of 19th century texts on Collier and his work. Egged on by Meary (Mary),...

Phil Benson 10 hours 21 minutes

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Frances Alice Forbes - Life of St. Vincent de Paul

Vincent De Paul [c. 1581 — 1660] was a man renowned during his own century for his compassion, humility and generosity. During the days when galleys were part of any countries' war machine and these galleys were rowed...

Bellona Times and 1 more 1 hour 57 minutes

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Harry A. Lewis - Hidden Treasures

«Some succeed while others fail. This is a recognized fact; yet history tells us that seven-tenths of our most successful men began life poor.» A selection of mini-biographies teaches us how some successful men have...

Lynne T and 17 more 16 hours 39 minutes

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Andrew Carnegie - Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

This autobiography of Andrew Carnegie is a very well written and interesting history of one of the most wealthy men in the United states. He was born in Scotland in 1835 and emigrated to America in 1848. Among his...

William Tomcho 10 hours 51 minutes

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J. Thomas Looney - Shakespeare Identified

That one who is not a recognized authority or an expert in literature should attempt the solution of a problem which has so far baffled specialists must doubtless appear to many as a glaring act of over- boldness;...

Lucretia B. and 15 more 16 hours 55 minutes

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Frank W. Boreham - Bunch of Everlastings

A collection of brief biographies and the text from scripture that was significant in the life of each. It is biography and devotional Bible study expertly woven together to produce interesting and inspirational...

Tim Bower 5 hours 49 minutes

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Garcia Moreno, President of Ecuador 1821-1875

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Augustine Berthe - Garcia Moreno, President of Ecuador 1821-1875

Gabriel Gregorio Fernando José María García y Moreno y Morán de Buitrón (1821–1875) was an Ecuadorian politician who twice served as President of Ecuador (1859-1865 and 1869-1875) and was assassinated during his...

Maria Therese 8 hours 10 minutes

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Charles A. Conant - Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton was a significant figure in the political and economic development of the early United States. He served in the American Revolutionary War and became an aide to General George Washington. He was...

Mike Pelton and 6 more 2 hours 46 minutes

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Sam K. Cowan - Sergeant York and His People

From a cabin back in the mountains of Tennessee, forty-eight miles from the railroad, a young man went to the World War. He was untutored in the ways of the world. Caught by the enemy in the cove of a hill in the...

Brett W. Downey 3 hours 29 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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