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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Frederick Marryat - Peter Simple

Peter Simple, 'the fool of the family', son of a parson but heir presumptive to a title, goes to sea as midshipman during the Napoleonic wars. Naturally, at sea in this period is where adventures are just waiting for...

Sylviamb and 7 more 16 hours 12 minutes

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wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl, the Man who lost his Shadow

Fantastic Fiction

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Adelbert von Chamisso - wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl, the Man who lost his Shadow

Peter Schlemihl is an ordinary man until one day he bargains with the devil: He trades his shadow for a bottomless purse. While this sounds like a good idea at first, it turns out that having no shadow is considered...

Mihai Borobocea and 3 more 2 hours 39 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Elliott O'Donnell - Sorcery Club

Leon Hamar and his friends were out-of-work and starving in San Francisco after the firm they worked for went out of business. Leon acquired a strange book and some cash in a trade for his watch-chain, one of his last...

Don W. Jenkins 9 hours 39 minutes

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Science

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Richard A. Proctor - Light Science for Leisure Hours

In preparing these Essays, my chief object has been to present scientific truths in a light and readable form—clearly and simply, but with an exact adherence to the facts as I see them. I have followed—here and...

Lynda Marie Neilson and 9 more 9 hours 40 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Clifton Johnson - Book of Fairy-Tale Bears

Bears make an appearance in so many fairy tales and fables, it is difficult to imagine a fairy-tale world without them. However, in most of those fairy tales, the bear is just a side-character. In this volume, Clifton...

AmyMc and 9 more 2 hours 12 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Frank L. Packard - Night Operator

A collection of ten railroad short stories: «And so these are the stories of the Hill Division and of the men who wrought upon it; the stories of those days when it was young and in the making; the stories of the days...

Delmar H Dolbier 9 hours 30 minutes

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War & Military

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George Hooper - Wellington

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1769-1852), was born in Dublin, the younger son of an Irish Protestant aristocrat. He served with his brother in India and rose to prominence during the Napoleonic Wars in...

Pamela Nagami 7 hours 50 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Marshall Saunders - 'Tilda Jane's Orphans

When the story of 'Tilda Jane appeared serially in The Youth's Companion in 1901, the original manuscript was very much condensed. When the time for book publication arrived nearly all the omitted matter was...

Kayli Ziervogel and 7 more 8 hours 20 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Eugène Sue - Mysteries of Paris - Volume 2

Rodolphe, is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. He can speak in argot, is extremely strong and a good fighter. However he shows great compassion...

Celine Major 10 hours 12 minutes Mysteries of Paris

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War & Military

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Charles William Chadwick Oman - England and the Hundred Years' War

This little book by the British military historian, Charles Oman, begins with the accession of the warrior king, Edward III, to the English throne in 1327 and ends with the downfall of Richard III at Bosworth Field in...

Pamela Nagami 5 hours 52 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Victor G. Durham - Submarine Boys for the Flag

It certainly has been an odd day for our Submarine Boys! First Jack Benson is asked by a German Professor to speak with him a hotel, then a French Chevalier wants to speak to Eph Somers. Both foreigners want the same...

Kenneth Sergeant Gaghan and 5 more 5 hours 12 minutes The Submarine Boys series

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Sara Teasdale - Kind Moon

Ever wonder how the moon seems to follow you around through the sky? Sara Teasdale gives her version of this observation in this poem taken from her collection 'Helen of Troy, and Other Poems'. (David Lawrence)

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 10 minutes

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