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Gene Stratton-Porter - Freckles

Freckles is a young man who has been raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage. His one dream is to find a job, a place to belong and people who accept him despite his youth and the disability of having only one...

Mary Anderson and 6 more 8 hours 43 minutes

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546

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 006

A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history,...

Mark F. Smith and 10 more 3 hours 37 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 005

A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history,...

Alan Davis Drake and 7 more 2 hours 21 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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586

Jean-Henri Fabre - Life of the Spider

Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre was a French entomologist and author. He was born in St. Léons in Aveyron, France. Fabre was largely an autodidact, owing to the poverty of his family. Nevertheless, he acquired a primary...

Bryan Ness and 6 more 7 hours 44 minutes

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Nature

512

William T. Hornaday - Our Vanishing Wild Life

We are weary of witnessing the greed, selfishness and cruelty of «civilized» man toward the wild creatures of the earth. We are sick of tales of slaughter and pictures of carnage. It is time for a sweeping...

Laura Caldwell and 17 more 18 hours 42 minutes

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509

John Wesley Powell - Canyons of the Colorado

John Wesley Powell was a pioneer American explorer, ethnologist, and geologist in the 19th Century. In 1869 he set out to explore the Colorado and the Grand Canyon. He gathered nine men, four boats and food for ten...

Joan Freeman and 9 more 8 hours 7 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

596

Henry David Thoreau - Walking

This was originally a lecture given by Thoreau in 1851 at the Concord lyceum titled «The Wild». He revised it before his death and it was included as part of the June 1862 edition of Atlantic Monthly. This essay...

Chris Masterson 1 hour 29 minutes

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448

Thomas Gilbert Pearson - Bird Study Book

Do you enjoy birdwatching? Would you like to learn a little more about the early conservations efforts to protect wild birds? In the Preface to The Bird Study Book, Pearson tells us “This book was written for the...

J. M. Smallheer 4 hours 1 minute

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Poetry

471

Robert Frost - Selected Poems of Robert Frost

Robert Frost, who lived from March 26, 1874 to January 29, 1963, was a winner of 4 Pulitzer prizes and one of America’s best loved poets. This selection of his poems is a short walk through the variety of his...

Becky Miller 20 minutes

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Nature

513

Mark Twain - Life on the Mississippi

Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. (Summary from Wikipedia)

John Greenman 14 hours 53 minutes

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479

John Muir - Mountains of California

John Muir (1838–1914) was one of the first modern preservationists. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, and wildlife, especially in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, were read...

Robert Garrison and 10 more 10 hours 19 minutes

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Nature

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Charles Hoy Fort - Book of the Damned

The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort (first edition 1919). Dealing with various types of anomalous phenomena including UFOs, strange falls of both organic and...

Matthew Shepherd and 6 more 14 hours 27 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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