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Children's Fiction

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Johanna Spyri - Cornelli

Cornelli lives in Iller-Stream with her widowed father, who calls on two Ladies of Culture to come spend time with Cornelli during one of his business trips, hoping that their influence will refine and improve his...

Jael Baldwin 4 hours 23 minutes

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General Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - Family Happiness

After a brief romance, the 17 year old Marya falls in love with the much older Sergyei Mikhailitch, an old family friend, and the two are married. They share an initially blissful life but after moving to St....

EvanJ 2 hours 59 minutes

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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 5

Art, Design & Architecture

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Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 5

The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri, as it was...

MorganScorpion and 8 more 8 hours 36 minutes Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari, Volumes 1-7

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Travel Fiction

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George Gissing - Emancipated

In Italy, everything is possible. Or, at least, much more than in the oppressive social order of the Victorian era. A group of British expatriats go to tour the country and do things they might live to either bless or...

Lynne T and 3 more 14 hours 7 minutes

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Mathematics

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Charles Howard Hinton - Fourth Dimension

«Mr Hinton tries to explain the theory of the fourth dimension so that the ordinary reasoning mind can get a grasp of what metaphysical mathematicians mean by it. If he is not altogether successful, it is not from...

Peter Yearsley 9 hours 5 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Roy J. Snell - Gypsy Flight

Rosemary Sample, an airplane stewardess, meets a mysterious dark lady on a flight to Salt Lake City. The plane is forced down overnight by a snowstorm. The passengers spend the night in a Hunting Lodge. In the...

Dawn Larsen 5 hours 18 minutes

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Religion

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Gregory of Nazianzus - Funeral Orations

Gregory the Theologian, also known as Gregory Nazianzen (which name also refers to his father,) was a 4th-century Archbishop of Constantinople. He is widely considered the most accomplished rhetorical stylist of the...

A LibriVox Volunteer 6 hours 50 minutes

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Romance

958

Charles Monroe Sheldon - His Brother's Keeper

Stuart Duncan arrives home from college to find the workers in his father's mine on the brink of a strike. Leading the strike is Stuart's boyhood friend, Eric Vassal. Will they be estranged by the opposing forces? Or...

Adele de Pignerolles 6 hours 31 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Guy de Maupassant - Mont Oriol: or A Romance of Auvergne

Young bride Christiane arrives in Auvergne to «take the waters» with her husband, described as «a sickly flower, or a sucking pig with its hair shaved off.» But rather than the relaxing family vacation she expects,...

Lisa Reichert and 4 more 9 hours 42 minutes

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Psychology

860

Henry H. Goddard - Kallikak Family

The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness , written by famous American psychologist and eugenicist Henry H. Goddard, is a famous but controversial extended case study following the Kallikak...

Larry Wilson and 4 more 2 hours 23 minutes

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Medical

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Patrick Manson - Lectures on Tropical Diseases

This short volume consists of the ten lectures which Sir Patrick Manson, medical adviser to the Colonial Office, delivered in San Francisco in 1905. Valuable to this day are his clinical descriptions: the three foot...

Pamela Nagami 6 hours 25 minutes

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Modern (19th C)

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Oscar Penn Fitzgerald - California Sketches New And Old

Here we meet all sorts of characters and situations in California’s early history: gunmen, outlaws, lynch mobs, raging storms, mining camps, lost clergymen, freed slaves, Northern sympathizers, Southern sympathizers,...

David Wales 11 hours 13 minutes

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