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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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Albert Bushnell Hart - Mentor: Benjamin Franklin

This is Vol. 6, No. 7, Serial No. 155 of The Mentor , published May 15, 1918. Benjamin Franklin was one of the leading figures of the 18th century and a founding father of the United States. His interests and...

John Doherty and 3 more 1 hour 17 minutes The Mentor

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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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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

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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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W. S. Gilbert - Iolanthe

Iolanthe is a fairy banished from fairyland for the crime of marrying a mortal. Her half-fairy, half-human son Strephon is a fairy down to the waist, but his legs are human. He loves Phyllis, but she is courted by the...

1 hour 21 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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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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