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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Maurice Henry Hewlett - Lore of Proserpine

If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one may see substance in the idiom, so to speak, of the senses. That, I take it,...

Chris A. Hawkins and 2 more 6 hours 10 minutes

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Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches

Literary Fiction

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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches

This is a collection of well-written engaging short stories written by «Q», the pen name of the prolific and eccentric Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch. — Summary by Amy Gramour

Andrew Dougherty and 10 more 4 hours 56 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Poison Island

Mysterious old Captain Coffin not only has a wild story about a Honduran island where treasure lies, he has a map. But they must be wary because it also holds “a poison that kills a man and keeps him fresh as paint”....

Daniel Goodson and 10 more 9 hours 10 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Martha Finley - Elsie's New Relations

In this ninth book in the classic Elsie Dinsmore series, the family finishes their summer at the seaside and returns to Ion. The narrative turns from Elsie to Violet's family, particularly her step-children Max and...

Lily Marie and 7 more 6 hours 26 minutes Elsie Dinsmore Series

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Christian Fiction

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Rosalind Goforth - Chinese Diamonds for the King of Kings

In this small book Rosalind Goforth tells many stories of 'diamonds' in China that have been tested and come out pure in the King of Kings' hand for His service. Sketch 9 speaks of the awful facts of the «heathen»...

pattymarie and 9 more 3 hours 10 minutes

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War & Military

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Mandell Creighton - Queen Elizabeth

«The Princess Elizabeth of England was born at Greenwich, between three and four of the afternoon of September 7, 1533. Her birth was a matter of small rejoicing to her parents, who were sorely disappointed that their...

Pamela Nagami 8 hours 54 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

851

Rose Macaulay - Making of a Bigot

“How various is man! How multiplied his experience, his outlook, his conclusions!”—H. Belloc. “And every single one of them is right.”—R. Kipling. Written while Macaulay worked in the Propaganda Department of...

Rhys Lawson and 6 more 7 hours 31 minutes

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Animals

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Elizabeth Brightwen - Wild Nature Won by Kindness

This is a delightful collection of stories about a few of the birds, puppies, ant-lions, spiders and other assorted bugs this lady either rescued or found and then observed carefully as they made their way to...

Logan Lorenz and 10 more 3 hours 59 minutes

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Animals

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William Henry Hudson - Birds and Man

During the later part of his life Hudson lived in southern England, where he was involved very early on with the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds). Birds and Man is a slow moving work where Hudson...

clarinetcarrot 6 hours 25 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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Victor Hugo - Hans of Iceland

Hans of Iceland was written in 1821 and is the very first novel written by young Victor, years before he became the great Hugo. It has all the ingredients of a gothic novel: dreadful murders by the hand of a human...

Sonia 13 hours 12 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Anonymous - Nell and Her Grandfather

If you have heard of the Dickens novel, The Old Curiosity Shop, and remember Nell Trent, the beautiful and virtuous young girl of «not quite fourteen», an orphan, who lived with her maternal grandfather in his shop of...

Phil Chenevert and 6 more 2 hours 11 minutes

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Comedy

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Aristophanes - Lysistrata (version 2)

Lysistrata has had enough. She is tired of the constant war that is ravaging Greece and has come up with a solution: Together with female friends from other Greek cities, she persuades all women of Greece to pledge an...

1 hour 30 minutes

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