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Harriet Beecher Stowe - Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

This is Stowe's second book, another one depicting the horrors of southern slavery, published 4 years after Uncle Tom's Cabin and 5 years before the commencement of the Civil War, when new territories wanting...

Michele Fry and 7 more 25 hours 36 minutes

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Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams

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Annie Denton Cridge - Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams

«Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams» is the first known feminist utopian novel written by a woman. The text features nine dreams experienced by a first-person female narrator. In the first...

Elsie Selwyn and 6 more 2 hours 57 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Sketches by Boz, version 2

A collection of early writings of Charles Dickens under his early pseudonym, «Boz.» They first appeared in various publications from 1833 to 1836. Divided into four sections, «Our Parish,» «Scenes,» «Characters,» and...

Hamlet 19 hours 6 minutes

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Henry Blake Fuller - Cliff-Dwellers

Between the former site of old Fort Dearborn and the present site of our newest Board of Trade there lies a restricted yet tumultuous territory through which, during the course of the last fifty years, the rushing...

Bhavya and 12 more 7 hours 28 minutes

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Sons of Fire

«He was a stranger in Matcham, a 'foreigner' as the villagers called such alien visitors. He had never been in the village before, knew nothing of its inhabitants or its surroundings, its customs, ways, local...

Jim Locke 13 hours 44 minutes

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Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier - Inheritance

«As the noblest attribute of man, family pride had been cherished time immemorial by the noble race of Rossville. Deep and incurable, therefore, was the wound inflicted on all its members by the marriage of the...

Jim Locke 22 hours 45 minutes

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William Elliot Griffis - Korean Fairy Tales

Everywhere on earth the fairy world of each country is older and perhaps more enduring than the one we see and feel and tread upon. So I tell in this book the folk lore of the Korean people, and of the behavior of the...

NoelBadrian 5 hours 47 minutes

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Golden Maiden and Other Folk Tales and Fairy Stories Told in Armenia

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A. G. Seklemian - Golden Maiden and Other Folk Tales and Fairy Stories Told in Armenia

Armenians trace their history back to before the time of the Babylonians and earliest recorded history — in fact, to Togarmah, a grandson of Japhet, Noah's son, who settled in Armenia after the Ark came to rest on...

NoelBadrian 7 hours 4 minutes

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Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas

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Anonymous - Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas by Anomymous. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 16, 2018. — This poem was published in booklet form...

Aleacia Messiah and 13 more 36 minutes

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Jean McKishnie Blewett - Christy and The Pipers

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Christy and The Pipers by Jean McKishnie Blewett. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 4, 2018. — This poem, set in Scotland, tells of a woman's...

Bruce Kachuk and 8 more 47 minutes

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William Platt - Stories of the Scottish Border

Nothing seems to be known about Mr and Mrs William Platt, the writers of Stories of the Scottish Border. What they produced is an eccentric guidebook and history, seen partly through the ballads of the region. The...

Jhiu 7 hours 32 minutes

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George Gissing - Crown Of Life

So what is the crown of life? Follow the journey of Piers and Irene as they attempt to discover. It is both a coming of age novel and love story at the same time, one which would bring delight to philosophers with...

annie70 and 1 more 14 hours 7 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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