Published 1900 onward

94 books

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

425

Maurice Henry Hewlett - Lore of Proserpine

If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one may see substance in the idiom, so to speak, of the senses. That, I take it,...

Chris A. Hawkins and 2 more 6 hours 10 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

544

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Poison Island

Mysterious old Captain Coffin not only has a wild story about a Honduran island where treasure lies, he has a map. But they must be wary because it also holds “a poison that kills a man and keeps him fresh as paint”....

Daniel Goodson and 10 more 9 hours 10 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

390

Rose Macaulay - Making of a Bigot

“How various is man! How multiplied his experience, his outlook, his conclusions!”—H. Belloc. “And every single one of them is right.”—R. Kipling. Written while Macaulay worked in the Propaganda Department of...

Rhys Lawson and 6 more 7 hours 31 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

472

Anonymous - Nell and Her Grandfather

If you have heard of the Dickens novel, The Old Curiosity Shop, and remember Nell Trent, the beautiful and virtuous young girl of «not quite fourteen», an orphan, who lived with her maternal grandfather in his shop of...

Phil Chenevert and 6 more 2 hours 11 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

462

William John Locke - Simon the Jester

Simon de Gex, a wealthy and successful MP, is diagnosed with a terminal illness and decides to use his last few months using his wealth and influence to do good. In particular, he determines to guide his protégé and...

Simon Evers 10 hours 4 minutes

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Short Stories

477

Fannie Hurst - Vertical City

As the city above soars gloriously skyward, the denizens of the city writhe in its dirty underbelly. The Vertical City is a collection of six short stories by Fannie Hurst (American). Each story, tells in gritty,...

Lisa Reichert 7 hours 15 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

474

M. R. James - Thin Ghost And Others

Five ghost stories, published in 1920, by the early twentieth century master of ghostery. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 3 hours 8 minutes

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459

Ida M. Tarbell - Rising of the Tide

The subtitle is «the story of Sabinsport», and the town is the major character. It is a small, Midwestern town in the USA, in 1914. About a dozen characters people its story. It shows how the coming of the Great War...

Bob R 9 hours 31 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

435

Myrtle Reed - Book of Clever Beasts

A humorous book, hitting off the many writers who have returned to nature and made intimate friends in the Animal World. The author describes the super-human intelligence to be found by the discerning among our...

Daryl Wor 4 hours 29 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

504

Lucy Maud Montgomery - Rainbow Valley (version 2)

The story moves from Anne and Gilbert to their six children, and their new neighbours, the children of the new Presbyterian minister. — Summary by Karen Savage Other books in this series by this reader: Anne of...

Karen Savage 7 hours 25 minutes Anne of Green Gables and related works

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472

Percy MacKaye - Caliban by the Yellow Sands

Caliban, the primitive, savage son of the witch Sycorax and the evil frog-tiger god Setebos, seeks to obtain knowledge and become civilized from a strange magician named Prospero and his young daughter, Miranda....

Amelia Chesley 2 hours 56 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

543

Gerhart Hauptmann - Atlantis

Frederick von Kammacher is a young doctor in Germany whose wife has gone insane, whose children are in a boarding school, and whose career has been destroyed by some faulty research he has done. He becomes infatuated...

Margaret Espaillat 13 hours 59 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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