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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives...

Jeanette Ferguson 4 hours 3 minutes

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the premier movers in the original women’s rights movement, along with Susan B. Anthony, her best friend for over 50 years. While Elizabeth initially stayed home with her husband and...

Becky Miller and 12 more 14 hours 46 minutes

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Mary MacLane - Story of Mary MacLane

At the age of 19 in 1902, MacLane published her first book, The Story of Mary MacLane . It sold 100,000 copies in the first month and was popular among young girls, but was strongly criticized by conservative...

Kristin Hughes 5 hours 20 minutes

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Erotica

Giacomo Casanova - Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Vol. 1

This is the first of five volumes. — Giacomo Casanova (1725 in Venice – 1798 in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Venetian adventurer, writer, and womanizer. He used charm, guile, threats,...

icyjumbo and 15 more 24 hours 55 minutes

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Joshua Slocum - Sailing Alone Around The World

Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone in a small boat. He personally rebuilt an 11.2 metre sloop-rigged fishing boat that he named the Spray. On April 24, 1895, he set sail from Boston,...

Alan Chant 7 hours 52 minutes

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James Boswell - Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I

Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest English-language biography ever written. It was revolutionary in its efforts to represent Johnson as he was, celebrating his flaws as well as...

Denny Sayers and 16 more 14 hours The Life of Samuel Johnson

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William Henry Hudson - Far Away and Long Ago

William Henry Hudson was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. Hudson was born of U.S. parents living in the Quilmes Partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, where he spent his youth studying the local flora...

hefyd and 9 more 8 hours 54 minutes

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Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

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Olaudah Equiano - Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. It discusses his time spent in slavery, serving primarily on galleys, documents his attempts at...

Carl Manchester and 9 more 8 hours 5 minutes

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Helen Keller - Story of My Life

The Story of My Life is a personal account of Helen Keller's life, from her early days to those as an adult. It includes how she came to meet her teacher Ann Sullivan, and learnt to communicate using the manual...

Maria 3 hours 51 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

Irwin Leslie Gordon - Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be

A short, humorous biography of famous people from 5000 BC to 1914. — S. McGaughey From the Introduction, «The editor begs leave to inform the public that only persons who can produce proper evidence of their...

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Frank Lewis Dyer - Edison, His Life and Inventions

A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage battery, and the electric light. In the words of the authors, «It is designed in...

Justin S Barrett and 21 more 29 hours 42 minutes

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Nellie Bly - Ten Days in a Madhouse

In 1887 Nellie Bly, one of the first female newspaper writers, and a young reporter who would soon go on to make a career for herself as an investigative journalist and “stunt” reporter, had herself committed to the...

Alys AtteWater 2 hours 41 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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