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Poetry

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Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing - Verses for Children

This is a volume of verses by JHG Ewing. Ms. Ewing was best known as an author of short stories and fairy tales, but this is a volume of rhymes for children. — Summary by Carolin

BettyB and 15 more 2 hours 59 minutes

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Poetry

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Bliss Carman - Songs from Vagabondia

This is the famous collection «Songs from Vagabondia», a collaboration between Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey, which at once catapulted both poets to extensive fame. The poems in this volume are widely read until...

Larry Wilson and 7 more 1 hour 15 minutes

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Robert Schumann, Tone Poet Prophet And Critic

Biography & Autobiography

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Herbert Francis Peyser - Robert Schumann, Tone Poet Prophet And Critic

[This is] the sketchiest outline of Robert Schumann’s short life but amazingly rich achievement. Together with Haydn and Schubert he was, perhaps, the most completely lovable of the great masters. It is hard,...

David Wales 1 hour 31 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Herbert Francis Peyser - Richard Strauss

There was not much truly spectacular about the course of [Strauss's] life, which was most happily free from the material troubles which bedeviled the existence of so many great masters… If “Salome” and “Elektra”, “Ein...

David Wales 1 hour 31 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Herbert Francis Peyser - Mendelssohn And Certain Masterworks

In the compass of the present pamphlet it is impossible to give more than a cursory survey of Mendelssohn’s happy but extraordinarily crowded life. He was only slightly less prolific a composer than such masters as...

David Wales 1 hour 29 minutes

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Stories of Don Quixote : written anew for young people

Children's Fiction

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James Baldwin - Stories of Don Quixote : written anew for young people

The romance entitled «The Achievements of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote de la Mancha,» was originally written in Spanish by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in the 17th century. It has been read and enjoyed by men...

Aaron M. Lebowitz and 3 more 4 hours 40 minutes

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Friendly Road, New Adventures in Contentment

Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Ray Stannard Baker - Friendly Road, New Adventures in Contentment

My grandmother Gertrude received a copy of The Friendly Road for Christmas in 1919. It must have been a special gift book--green leather binding, gold embossing, a sheet of tissue paper protecting the color plate...

Sue Anderson 7 hours 12 minutes

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Satire

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crocodile

Ivan Matveich, the most ordinary person you might hope to meet, is swallowed alive by a crocodile at a sideshow. Finding life inside the belly of the beast quite comfortable, he makes a home for himself there. His...

Tony Addison 1 hour 59 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Short Science Fiction Collection 056

Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative...

Tony Addison and 9 more 7 hours 34 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Barry Cornwall - Petition to Time

Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall) was an English poet. Rather unknown outside Britain in his times and largely considered to be imitator of greater romantic authors, Barry Cornwall however inspired...

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 13 minutes

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Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics

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Lucien Poincaré - New Physics and Its Evolution

The end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century marked a new era in the study of physics. It seemed as though everything that was thought to be known was being called into question. This book attempts to...

MaryAnn and 8 more 8 hours 52 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Harriet Martineau - Crofton Boys

Children's Fictional Novel; an historic testament to family and school life in the 1800's; a mesmerizing and touching piece about a young boy's school experience, fun and spirited but which also includes the topic of...

JaneHackathorn 6 hours 38 minutes

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