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Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Anonymous - Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer

This is the prequel of the Nibelungenlied. It tells the tale of Siegfried as a young man when he sets forth to earn a name for himself so he will be able to stand proudly with his ancestors. — Summary by Fritz

Phil Schempf 3 hours 2 minutes

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Sagas

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R. Eivind - Finnish Legends

One dark winter's day in the north of Finland, Father Mikko seeks shelter in an isolated cabin till a storm abates. After dinner the family sit around the fire, and the daughter asks him to tell them «all the stories...

Sonia and 6 more 4 hours 35 minutes

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Sagas

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Anonymous - Mabinogion, Volume 2

This is the second of three volumes of The Mabinogion, a collection of some of the earliest tales from the British Isles. Lady Charlotte Guest translated the stories in Volume 2 from a 14th-century Welsh manuscript,...

jolynne and 1 more 3 hours 24 minutes

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Family Life

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Sarah Grand - Heavenly Twins

First published in 1893, this novel came to question many subjects which were considered taboo. Through a few interconnected plots and sub plots, the story examines the role of women and the different opportunities...

Jim Locke and 14 more 29 hours 53 minutes

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Family Life

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Rosa Campbell Praed - Policy and Passion

«Policy and Passion, a Novel of Australian Life» tells the story about a father and daughter, torn between the policy of the country in which they live and the passions both have. The father, Thomas, is a rising...

Lynne T and 3 more 14 hours 32 minutes

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History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 4

Family Life

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Eliza Haywood - History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 4

Betsy Thoughtless is about an intelligent and strong-willed woman who marries under pressure from the society in which she lives. Betsy learns that sometimes giving way to the role of women within a marriage can at...

Michele Eaton 6 hours 23 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Snorri Sturleson - Prose Edda (Brodeur Translation)

Also known as the Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda, the Prose Edda is a three-part work composed or at least compiled by thirteenth-century Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson. Along with the Elder or Poetic Edda written...

Expatriate 6 hours 20 minutes

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General Fiction

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Henry James - Tragic Muse

Art or politics, this is the question Nick Dormer dealls with in the course of this novel. Mirian Ruth, an aspiring actress, is the «tragic muse» of the title. Her concerns are a bit different: would proper society...

shihping and 5 more 23 hours 15 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

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Sæmund Sigfusson - Elder Edda (Bray Translation)

The Elder or Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems dating from the thirteenth century CE. Though no two translators or editors seem to agree on precisely which poems should be included in this collection, the...

Expatriate 6 hours 39 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Dead Men's Shoes

Sybil, a gentlewoman who has to work for a living, finally finds employment as her rich uncle's house keeper. Nothing could be better: she would finally have an easy job in which she is treated well, and inherit her...

Michele Eaton and 8 more 19 hours 11 minutes

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History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 3

Romance

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Eliza Haywood - History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 3

Betsy Thoughtless is about marriage, rather than dealing with courrtship and thus differs from the type of domestic writing that would develop in the 19th century such as Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Rather than...

Michele Eaton 5 hours 41 minutes

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Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes (Kirby translation)

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Elias Lönnrot - Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes (Kirby translation)

The Kalevala is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology. It is regarded as the national epic of Karelia and Finland and is one of the most...

Expatriate 15 hours 37 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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