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Children's Fiction

465

Edric Vredenberg - My Book Of Favourite Fairy Tales

This is a collection on well-known, favorite fairy stories, most of which we all grew up with. They were edited and retold in this volume. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)

Lynne T and 11 more 3 hours 7 minutes

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Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Vol. 1

Short Stories

486

Marguerite of Navarre - Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Vol. 1

THE HEPTAMERON, first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, and an eighth day containing only 2 stories. The stories, many of which deal with love and...

jabc1950 and 4 more 5 hours 19 minutes

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Historical Fiction

445

Thomas Hardy - Group of Noble Dames

The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of any touch of nature as a table of logarithms. But given a clue—the faintest...

Libby Gohn 6 hours 52 minutes

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Short Stories

505

O. Henry - Waifs and Strays

These 12 O. Henry stories all deal with waifs and strays in one way or another; people who have somehow become adrift in the current of life. Will they find their way on their own or be helped by kind hearted folk or...

Bellona Times and 10 more 3 hours 22 minutes

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General Fiction

459

Selma Lagerlöf - From a Swedish Homestead

”From a Swedish Homestead” by the Swedish author Selma Lagerloef (translated by Jessie Brochner) is a varied collection of stories, mostly set in Dalarne or Vaermland in Sweden, but also some stories or legends from...

Lars Rolander 10 hours 5 minutes

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Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 3

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Edgar Allan Poe - Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 3

This, the third of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains 6 of his short stories as well as Poe's only complete novel, The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym . In it, Arthur Gordon Pym stows away on a whaling vessel and...

Ernst Pattynama and 14 more 11 hours 30 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

545

Lord Dunsany - Fifty-One Tales

Very brief, well-crafted stories, many having surprise endings, all steeped in the dye of myth and calling to every reader's neglected imagination. (Summary by Thomas Copeland)

Thomas A. Copeland 1 hour 50 minutes

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Children's Fiction

516

Joseph Jacobs - Indian Fairy Tales

This book is a fine collection of Indian fairy tales, some are folklore, some are from the Jataka tales, and some from panchatantra. (Summary by sidhu177)

Gabriela Cowan and 10 more 6 hours 38 minutes

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Short Stories

425

Best British Short Stories of 1922

Twenty-four short stories by famous and not-so-famous British authors. (Summary by David Wales) Note: A shortened section 21 was replaced on Dec 30, 2014 with the full text.

David Wales 13 hours 43 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Harry Harrison - Repairman

This is a collection of 3 of Harry Harrison marvelous early stories that were published in Galaxy, Analog and Fantastic Universe. The Repairman (1958) is a straight fun SF story of a man getting a job done. It is most...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 34 minutes

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Short Stories

516

Edna Ferber - Homely Heroine

Who ever heard of a plain and downright homely heroine? Isn't a heroine by definition beautiful? Well, Edna Ferber, in her well known style that later produced Show Boat and Giant, tells us about just such a heroine...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 37 minutes

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Travel Fiction

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Washington Irving - Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

Apart from «Rip Van Winkle» and «The Legend of Sleepy Hollow» — the pieces which made both Irving and The Sketch Book famous — other tales include «Roscoe», «The Broken Heart», «The Art of Book-making», «A Royal...

Easton and 15 more 15 hours 21 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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