Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Demian, The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth

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Hermann Hesse - Demian, The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth

Somewhat autobiographical, this «coming of age» novel unfolds an introspective boy's formative years in pre-World War 1 Germany, from grade school through college. Hesse likens this confusing process to a giant bird...

Michele Fry 5 hours 41 minutes

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A. Edward Newton - Doctor Johnson: A Play

The life of Doctor Johnson, told in his own words and (mostly) those of others around him. «Anyone with a teaspoonful of imagination can read this play with pleasure; with two teaspoonsful, I will not be responsible...

2 hours 18 minutes

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Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer

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Richard Steele - Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer

Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. was a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of then famous Almanac-maker and astrologer John Partridge. In 1709, Richard Steele bolstered the release of his new...

Elijah Fisher 5 hours 33 minutes

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Joseph Addison - Days With Sir Roger de Coverley

The author Sir Richard Steele, who was one of the writers for The Spectator, gets the opportunity to spend a month in Sir Roger de Coverley's house. (Elijah Fisher)

Elijah Fisher 1 hour 23 minutes

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Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett - Adventures of an Ugly Girl

“Come, Dora! I shall never be ready, if you don’t make haste. They will be here in ten minutes, and my hair is not half so nice as it ought to be, thanks to your carelessness.” “You are very good to ignore my own...

Zarina Silverman and 6 more 7 hours 27 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Forrest Crissey - Tattlings of a Retired Politician

«The letters (non-partisan) of Hon. William Bradley, Ex-Governor and former veteran of practical politics, written to his friend and protege Ned who is still busy 'carving a career back in the old state.'» ( F....

DrPGould and 4 more 5 hours 25 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Emily Ponsonby - Violet Osborne - Trilogy

«This book is in turns funny and sad. Violet Osborne is a very beloved child with no financial problems. She is both beautiful and good, and of course she must be happy. Yet, as we learn, she is a manipulative and...

Monika Rolley and 9 more 12 hours 22 minutes

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William Makepeace Thackeray - Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel, narrated (occasionally charmingly, always unreliably) by a member of the...

mb 13 hours 49 minutes

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Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography

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Walt Whitman - Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography

This story ran as a serial in 1852 in the New York Sunday Dispatch, and for more than 160 years was buried in obscurity, unknown to the world as novel written by Walt Whitman. Zachary Turpin, a graduate student...

Margaret Espaillat 4 hours 7 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Egerton Castle - Pride of Jennico

«The death of a patriarch, unexpected inheritance of a second son, dark and stormy castle, faithful retainers, scary governess who never speaks, star-crossed lovers — I could go on, but that would involve spoilers!...

Sylviamb 6 hours 57 minutes

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George Payne Rainsford James - Agnes Sorel

The Hundred Years' War: a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against the House of Valois, rulers of the Kingdom of France, over the succession to...

Lynne T 17 hours 1 minute

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Epistolary Fiction

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Maurice Baring - Lost Diaries

Within these pages find passages from the «lost diaries» of a wide range of people: royal, regular, famous, infamous, historical, and fictional. — Summary by A. Gramour

Nemo and 5 more 3 hours 35 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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