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Joseph Hergesheimer - Java Head

Java Head is a novel of the American merchant marine at the beginning of the great clipper ship era. It is laid in Salem, when that city was still a port rich with the traffic of the East Indies; a story of choleric...

Margaret Espaillat 7 hours 51 minutes

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Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Charles Watts Whistler - Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln

Troy, Athens, Rome… each has its founding legend. So too does the Lincolnshire town of Grimsby, once the largest fishing port in the world. Havelok the Dane probably derives from a folk-tale, orally passed...

Tony Foster 8 hours 56 minutes

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Mark Twain - More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain

«More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain» fills in the gaps left by the first collection of newspaper articles: «Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain» . The missing articles, collected by twainquotes.com , consist of...

John Greenman 20 hours 49 minutes

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J. Walker McSpadden - Stories From Wagner

Eleven stories of eleven operas by Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold. Die Walküre. Siegfried. Götterdämmerung. Parsifal. Lohengrin. Tannhäuser. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Rienzi. Die Fliegende Holländer....

David Wales 6 hours 40 minutes

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Harriet Beecher Stowe - Oldtown Folks

1870's rural Massachusetts communities became famous as “Oldtown” in Harriet Beecher Stowe's 7th novel and national bestseller. Based partially on her husband Rev. Calvin Stowe's childhood memories and other old...

Michele Fry and 6 more 22 hours 46 minutes

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Mór Jókai - Tales from Jókai

Móric Jókay de Ásva, known as Mór Jókai or Maurus Jokai, was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. He was a very prolific writer from an early age and wrote hundreds of novels, novellas, and short stories in his...

Availle 8 hours 26 minutes

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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

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William Butler Yeats - Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

This is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats collected them from around the Western part of Ireland and translated them near the end of the 1800s. — Summary by Michele Eaton

Juliet Brown and 17 more 11 hours 20 minutes

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British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions

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Wirt Sikes - British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions

The British Isles, in particular Wales, are renowned for legend and folklore. The author, an American journalist working in Europe, was appointed Consul to Wales and thus began his fascination with Welsh folklore....

Lynne T and 11 more 11 hours 28 minutes

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman - With Her in Ourland

Third in the trilogy of the feminist classics, after Moving the Mountain and Herland . It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodical The Forerunner . In Herland , three American young men discover a...

Amelia Chesley and 4 more 5 hours 53 minutes

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Myths And Legends Of California And The Old Southwest

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Katharine Berry Judson - Myths And Legends Of California And The Old Southwest

"...The preparation of a volume of the quainter, purer myths, suitable for general reading, authentic, and with illustrations of the country portrayed, but with no pretensions to being a purely scientific piece...

David Wales 3 hours 23 minutes

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Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin - Family of Noblemen

Meet the Golovliovs, the ultimate dysfunctional family. In the difficult transition years before and after the liberation of Russia’s serfs, the Golovliovs are a gentry family ill-equipped to face the adaptations...

Expatriate 11 hours 23 minutes

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Mary Grant Bruce - Stone Axe Of Burkamukk

Mary Grant Bruce was an Australian children's writer who spent one year collecting Aboriginal stories in Gippsland — a part of Victoria which it is thought had a dense population of the early Australians. Sadly, now...

Availle and 9 more 6 hours 56 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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