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Memoirs

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John Aubrey - Brief Lives Volume II

Volume 2 of Aubrey's sparkling gossipy biographical pieces on his contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glimpses into the unofficial side of these towering figures has won it an undying...

Nicole Lee 8 hours 18 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Andrew Lang - Summer's Ending

Andrew Lang was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St...

Adriana Ibtisam and 14 more 20 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Arthur J. Rees - Hand in the Dark

An ancient English country house with a storied and bloody history is the setting for this intriguing mystery. It is the autumn of 1918. The War to End All Wars is still raging in Europe, but in this peaceful setting...

Jacquerie 10 hours 43 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 046

Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include meteor showers, smallpox inoculation, telegraphy, fear of death, church bell change-ringing, painting as a...

Garth Burton and 8 more 6 hours 47 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Epistolary Fiction

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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol - Taras Bulba and Other Tales

A collection of classic Russian literature from the mind of one of the world's well know authors. The collection includes Taras Bulba, St. John's Eve, The Cloak, How The Two Ivans Quarrelled, The Mysterious Portrait,...

Jules Hawryluk and 5 more 12 hours 30 minutes

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Single author

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Walter Crane - Sirens Three -- Queen Summer

Walter Crane (1845 — 1915) was a renowned artist and the illustrator of numerous books, among them «The Happy Prince and Other Stories» by Oscar Wilde and Edmund Spenser's «Faerie Queene» as well as many collections...

NoelBadrian 49 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Charles Boardman Hawes - Dark Frigate

The frigate Rose of Devon rescues from a wreck in mid-ocean twelve men who show their gratitude by seizing the Rose, killing her captain and sailing toward the Caribbean where they hope to plunder Spanish towns and...

Kathrine Engan 7 hours 23 minutes

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Ballads

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Sir Walter Scott - Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field

Marmion is an epic poem in six cantos, written in emulation of the ancient Scottish minstrel style which was of such great interest to Scott. Unlike its predecessor, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, this one contains...

Peter Tucker 4 hours 17 minutes

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Short Stories

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Myrtle Reed - Threads of Grey and Gold

This is a collection of short stories and poems by Myrtle Reed. Many of the stories are short romances, and they share the unique, nostalgic, sometimes melancholy atmosphere so characteristic of Myrtle Reed's stories....

MaryAnn and 10 more 6 hours 40 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Robert Cortes Holliday - Walking-Stick Papers

Robert Cortes Holliday (1880 – 1947) was an American writer and literary editor. Writer and friend, Christopher Morley, wrote of Holliday: "[he] has the genuine gift of the personal essay, mellow, fluent, and...

David Wales 6 hours 40 minutes

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Bibles

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Jewish Publication Society of America - Torah (JPSA) 04: Numbers

According to Jewish tradition the 5 books of Moses (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy) are read and studied each year. In order to complete the study, the 5 books are separated into sections...

Scarlett Martin 3 hours 23 minutes

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War & Military

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Robert Southey - Life of Nelson

In 1813, the year that he was appointed Poet Laureate, Robert Southey published «The Life of Nelson». Horatio, Lord Viscount Nelson was Britain's greatest Naval hero who had been killed during the Battle of Trafalgar...

NoelBadrian 11 hours 7 minutes

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