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Poetry

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Edmund Vance Cooke - Impertinent Poems

A Pre-Impertinence: Anticipating the intelligent critic of «Impertinent Poems,» it may well be remarked that the chief impertinence is in calling them poems. Be that as it may, the editors and publishers of «The...

Scotty Smith and 7 more 1 hour 46 minutes

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Animals

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Enos A. Mills - Adventures of a Nature Guide

Enos Mills (1870-1922 ), naturalist and conservationist, was instrumental in the creation of Rocky Mountain National Park. Like his mentor John Muir, Mills was an intrepid solitary high country rambler, as well as an...

Sue Anderson 7 hours 30 minutes

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Lion of Saint Mark: A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century

Historical Fiction

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G. A. Henty - Lion of Saint Mark: A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century

«Of all the chapters of history, there are few more interesting or wonderful than that which tells the story of the rise and progress of Venice.» And thus begins another swashbuckling adventure by G. A. Henty. The...

Rachel and 5 more 11 hours 59 minutes

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Kaffir, Kangaroo, Klondike; Tales Of The Gold Fields

Short Stories

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Thaddeus William Henry Leavitt - Kaffir, Kangaroo, Klondike; Tales Of The Gold Fields

Seven short stories. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 2 hours 44 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Madison Cawein - Old Inn

Madison Julius Cawein was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion. — Summary by...

Bruce Kachuk and 9 more 18 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Charlotte's Inheritance

A lesser known novel by the sensational English novelist, Charlotte's Inheritance opens in Paris in a dilapidated boarding house let to students by a scarcely adequate landlady. Enter Gustave, a young provincial,...

Lynne T and 4 more 16 hours 9 minutes

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Westerns

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Max Brand - Cross Brand

Jack Bristol shot the sheriff and stole his horse. He rode off, not into the sunset, but into the mountains. The mountain man held him captive for months and then released him. Why? And why did the girl scream with...

David Wales 3 hours 56 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Ernest Vincent Wright - Gadsby

Fifty-year-old John Gadsby is alarmed by the decline of his hometown, Branton Hills, and rallies the city's young people to form an «Organization of Youth» to build civic spirit and improve living standards. Gadsby...

Larry Wilson and 10 more 6 hours 10 minutes

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Cooking

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Arthur Gay Payne - Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery

This is a little cookbook of vegetarian recipes, which were only slowly gaining popularity in England at the time of its publication in 1891. The recipes are all very clearly described, and any modern listener should...

BettyB and 7 more 7 hours 18 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Mildred A. Wirt Benson - Hoofbeats on the Turnpike

Penny Parker is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the «Riverview...

Cheryl Adam 4 hours 41 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Ray Stannard Baker - Following the Color Line

Subtitled «An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy», we are presented an in-depth and essentially non-opinionated open view of race relations as they existed in the U.S. in 1908, more than 40 years...

Roger Melin 14 hours 40 minutes

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Humor

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Mark Twain - Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 2

This collection of the 195 known, publicly-printed speeches of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was compiled by Paul Fatout and published by the University of Iowa Press. The speeches are in the Public Domain,...

John Greenman 20 hours 20 minutes

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