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H. G. Wells - Certain Personal Matters

Although best known for his works of science fiction, social commentary and history, H.G. Wells here gives us humorous and light-hearted pieces on a wide variety of intriguing topics from chess to death. Each essay is...

Foon and 11 more 6 hours 23 minutes

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Robert Lynd - Art of Letters

From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essay on the literary scene of his day with critiques of poets and and poetry, ranging from Pepys to Walter de la...

Larry Wilson and 7 more 9 hours 31 minutes

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Mary Webb - Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing

Mary Webb was a novelist and poet and two of her novels «Gone to Earth» and «Precious Bane» have been successfully adapted for film and television. She was passionate about nature and particularly the Shropshire...

NoelBadrian 3 hours

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 057

Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Natural cataclysm is the subject of several readings: the 1899 Alaskan earthquake, which uplifted cliffs at Yakutat Bay 47...

April6090 and 7 more 4 hours 23 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Robert Lynd - Book of This and That

From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as stupidity, Christmas, spring fashions, and the beauty of statistics. — Summary...

Tom Penn and 11 more 5 hours 45 minutes

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William Dean Howells - Heroines of Fiction

This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bronte, Thackeray, and others. These studies of nineteenth-century literature...

Jim Locke 17 hours 40 minutes

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Historical Fiction

Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume II: India, Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine

This is the second volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art , edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature,...

Sonia and 23 more 17 hours 57 minutes World's Story

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William Henry Hudson - Idle Hours In A Library

“[these essays on Shakespeare, Pepys, Restoration novels, and bohemianism]—the results of many hours of quiet but rather aimless browsing among books, and not of special investigations, undertaken with a view to...

David Wales 5 hours 24 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

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Dial, May 1920

An example of one of the leading literary magazines of the early 20th Century. Poetry by e.e. cummings and Louise Bryant (aka Mrs. John Reed, of «Reds» fame), a short story by Sherwood Anderson, a memoir of the late...

VfkaBT 5 hours 31 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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H. L. Mencken - Prejudices, First Series

Mencken sharpens his pen and in a collection of short essays delivers acerbic opinions on issues and persons of the time. Among his targets in this volume (the first of six) are critics, H.G. Wells Thorstein Veblen,...

DrPGould and 4 more 7 hours

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Animals

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Rowland E. Robinson - In New England Fields and Woods

Born in rural Vermont in 1833, and nearly unknown to today's readers, Rowland Evans Robinson was once one of Vermont's best-known writers. A talented artist, he drew cartoons in New York City for the “funny...

Nemo and 2 more 5 hours 38 minutes

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Life in the Sick-room: Essays by an Invalid

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Harriet Martineau - Life in the Sick-room: Essays by an Invalid

Thinking she would be ill for the rest of her life, Harriet Martineau wrote these partly autobiographical essays about life in the sickroom. Considered ground breaking, it asserted that the sickroom is the sick...

MaryAnn and 6 more 5 hours 15 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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