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Sarah Knowles Bolton - Famous American Statesmen

A sketch of the lives of some of America's early Statesmen: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Charles Sumner, Ulysses S. Grant, and...

Barry Eads 9 hours 46 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

838

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Coming of the Fairies

After a number of deaths in his close family, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned to spiritualism in hope of finding proof of the afterlife. Being open in this way, he wanted to believe that spirits and other supernatural...

Rapunzelina and 5 more 3 hours 34 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Laws

Laws (Greek: Νόμοι) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having failed in his effort in Syracuse on the island of Sicily to guide a tyrant's...

Geoffrey Edwards 17 hours 12 minutes

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General Fiction

808

Frank Norris - Octopus

Frank Norris based his 1901 novel The Octopus (A Story of California) on the Mussel Slough Tragedy of 1880, a bloody conflict between ranchers and agents of the Southern Pacific Railroad. The central issue was over...

Delmar H Dolbier 21 hours 44 minutes

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Wallace D. Wattles - Science of Being Great

The Science of Being Great is the second book of Wattles' triology. In this volume he argues that the power of thought and positive self-esteem is the only true measure of a person's greatness. (Summary by Diana...

Diana Majlinger 2 hours 19 minutes

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David Hilbert - Mathematical Problems

Lecture delivered before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris in 1900 and subsequently published in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society Vol. 8 (1902), 479-481.

Prachi Pendse 2 hours 23 minutes

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E. Gordon Browne - Queen Victoria

This book is about the life of Queen Victoria (1819 to 1901). All nine of her children married into the royal houses of Europe. She became the longest reigning monarch and more. This book is a fascinating read about...

Michele Eaton 3 hours 35 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

663

Alfred Lawson - Born Again

«I doubt that anyone who reads [Born Again] will ever forget it: it is quite singularly bad, with long undigestible rants against the evils of the world, an impossibly idealistic Utopian prescription for the said...

Chuck Williamson and 1 more 7 hours 46 minutes

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Poetry

646

Lydia Maria Child - Freedmen's Book

Lydia Maria Child, an American abolitionist, compiled this collection of short stories and poems by former slaves and noted activists as an inspiration to freed slaves. In her dedication to the freedmen, she urges...

Rhonda Federman 9 hours 26 minutes

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Children's Fiction

647

Sarah E. Trueblood - Cats by the Way

Between these pages you will find only the good, old-fashioned, every-day cat. No Angora or thoroughbred has been entered here, unless it be «Hansie,» who is little more than mentioned. These are true incidents and...

Jessica Louise 1 hour 46 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

825

G. K. Chesterton - Wit and Wisdom of Chesterton

This little volume, issued as a gift book for lovers of Mr. Chesterton's writings in 1911, is made up from essays to be found in «The Defandant», «Varied Types» and «Tremendous Trifles». These 12 pieces were chosen to...

TriciaG and 7 more 2 hours 10 minutes

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General Fiction

622

Edna Lyall - Autobiography of a Slander

The Autobiography of a Slander exposes the consequences of reckless words or, even worse, intentionally disparaging words. In this moral tale, told from the point of view of «the slander», Edna Lyall (pseudonym used...

Rhonda Federman 1 hour 41 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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