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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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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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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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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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Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes

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Katharine Berry Judson - Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes

It is a loss to American literature that so much of the legendary history of these Indian tribes has gone, beyond hope of recovery. Exquisite in color, poetical in feeling, these legends of sun, moon, and stars, of...

David Wales 3 hours 35 minutes

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Katharine Berry Judson - Myths and Legends of the Great Plains

Myths and Legends of the Great Plains is a compendium of myths and legends from the Great Plains region of the US. It includes many short stories, and also quite a few songs and poems. Each tale is tagged with what...

Kyle Van DeGlast 3 hours 9 minutes

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Èmile

Emile, or On Education or Émile, or Treatise on Education (French: Émile, ou De l’éducation) was published in 1762 in French and German and in 1763 in English. The significance of Rousseau in education as well as in...

Anne and 2 more 28 hours 51 minutes

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Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2)

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2)

«Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life» was Mrs Gaskell's first full-length novel. It was published anonymously in that tumultuous year of political change, 1848 — only a few months after the Communist Manifesto...

Tony Foster 15 hours 40 minutes

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Myths And Legends Of The Pacific Northwest Especially Of Washington And Oregon

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Katharine Berry Judson - Myths And Legends Of The Pacific Northwest Especially Of Washington And Oregon

The basis on which these myths were selected necessarily excluded those which showed traces of the white man's religion or of the red man's coarseness. Relatively speaking, only a few myths could be selected. These...

David Wales 2 hours 24 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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