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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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Phineas Fletcher - Brittains Ida or Venus and Anchises

While hunting, the boy Anchises stumbles upon Venus's forest retreat and is so kindly entertained by the goddess that he becomes the proud father of Aeneas, the hero of Vergil's Aeneid . The poem is an epyllion like...

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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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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Fergus Hume - Hagar of the Pawn-Shop

Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly London pawnbroker. He dies after teaching Hagar the business, and she takes...

Grant Hurlock 8 hours 21 minutes

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Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars

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Bampfylde Moore Carew - Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars

The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew recounts the wide-ranging exploits of a real-life rogue – a wily professional mendicant who roams 18th-century England extracting charity from merchants, clergyman,...

Grant Hurlock 7 hours 31 minutes

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Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving

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Washington Irving - Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving

Washington Irving's Old Christmas tells of an American's travels through England during the Christmas season. Through a chance meeting with an old friend he is able to experience Christmas in a stately manor house....

Greg Giordano 1 hour 59 minutes

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Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories

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Giovanni Verga - Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories

The short stories of Giovanni Verga, one of the leading authors of Italian verismo, or realism, tell mostly of working-class characters in rural, 19th-century Sicily. One of these stories, «Rustic Chivalry,» or...

Mary J 2 hours 14 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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