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Andrew Barton Paterson - Three Elephant Power and Other Stories

From Banjo Paterson, bush poet and favorite son of Australia, here is a collection of colorful stories from Australia that offer a window into the past and the culture of the region. — Summary by A. Gramour

Beth Thomas and 7 more 3 hours 33 minutes

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Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Volume 2

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Songling Pu - Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Volume 2

«Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio» or «Strange Tales of Liaozhai» is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical...

Nick J. Gold and 18 more 9 hours 50 minutes

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Myths And Legends Of The Great Plains (version 2)

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Katharine Berry Judson - Myths And Legends Of The Great Plains (version 2)

Here, amidst the vast sweep of the plains which stretch away to the horizon on every side, boundless, limitless, endless, lived the plains Indians. Standing in the midst of this vast green plain on a soft May morning,...

David Wales 3 hours 20 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Washington Irving - Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey

Although this book may not have the immediately recognizable title of, say, “Rip Van Winkle” or “Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” this book deserves its place among the pantheon of Washington Irving’s classics. Irving, who...

Greg Giordano 5 hours 38 minutes

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Mikado, Or The Town of Titipu (version 2)

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W. S. Gilbert - Mikado, Or The Town of Titipu (version 2)

In the town of Titipu, flirting is punishable by death on the command of the Mikado himself! But what happens when the Lord High Executioner is himself condemned to die? And what secret does the wandering minstrel...

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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Portion of Labor

This is the story of Ellen Brewster, pretty little daughter of shoe-mill workers in a Northeastern US town of the late 19th century. After the mill shuts down, her family struggles to make ends meet, but as the years...

VfkaBT and 3 more 17 hours 37 minutes

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Washington Irving - Bracebridge Hall

Famed American humorist and essayist Washington Irving published a series of short pieces entitled «The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gentleman» in 1815. Included in that collection were the chapters which later...

Greg Giordano and 1 more 5 hours 9 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

478

The Gawain Poet - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

King Arthur lies at Camelot upon a Christmas-tide and will not eat until he hears tell of a marvel of knightly feats. In among them rides the Green Knight and challenges any knight of the Table Round to the beheading...

Tony Addison 2 hours 37 minutes

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Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures

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Montague Glass - Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures

Montague Glass was a lawyer who eventually abandoned the practice of law to write full time. He wrote a series of stories in the New York Post about a pair of popular characters in the predominantly Jewish garment...

Lynne T and 4 more 9 hours 43 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Elizabeth Bibesco - Balloons

Elizabeth, Princess Bibesco, was an English writer and socialite. The daughter of a British Prime Minister and the wife of a Romanian aristocrat, she drew on her experience in British high society in her work. Her...

Beth Thomas and 8 more 3 hours 58 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Richard Wilson - Indian Story Book

Richard Wilson has taken tales from the two great Indian epics, the Rāmāyaṇa and the Mahābhārata, as well as other early sources, and has retold them in English, in an effort to showcase to young English-speaking...

Anusha Iyer and 4 more 6 hours 42 minutes

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Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio, volume 1

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Songling Pu - Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio, volume 1

«Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio» (or «Strange Tales of Liaozhai») is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical...

Availle and 19 more 12 hours 6 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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