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Elizabeth Bisland - In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World by Elizabeth Bisland
In November 1889, the New York World announced that it was sending its reporter Nellie Bly around the world, in a bid to beat Phileas Fogg's fictitious 80-day journey in Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty...
4 hours 9 minutes
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Eugene Field - Little Book of Profitable Tales
An anthology of charming short stories, written by the poet for his only daughter Mary. The style is simple and conversational, sometimes dealing with the difficult subjects confronting children of the day, including...
4 hours 54 minutes
Antiquity
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Knut Gjerset - History of the Norwegian People, Volume 1
A detailed and exhaustive history of the Norwegian People, written in two volumes. The author, Knut Gjerset, was born in Western Norway in 1865 and immigrated to Chippewa County, Minnesota, in the US with his parents...
16 hours 32 minutes
Essays & Short Works
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William Lyon Phelps - Essays on Modern Novelists
A collection of essays on 19th century novelists, both famous ones and those largely forgotten now. Among the writers presented most wrote in English, but three foreign authors are also discussed. Phelps taught a...
6 hours 38 minutes
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