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Family

722

Hugh Walpole - Jeremy

With affectionate humor, Mr. Walpole tells the story of Jeremy and his two sisters, Helen and Mary Cole, who grow up in Polchester, a quiet English Cathedral town. There is the Jampot, who is the nurse; Hamlet, the...

David Wales 9 hours 3 minutes

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Philosophy

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John Dewey - Essays in Experimental Logic

In this early collection of formative essays, acclaimed American philosopher John Dewey argues that the idealistic, realistic, and analytic schools of philosophy fail to take into account the pragmatic and...

P. J. Taylor and 6 more 11 hours 27 minutes

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Saints and Heroes to the End of the Middle Ages

Religion

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George Hodges - Saints and Heroes to the End of the Middle Ages

Though these stories of the lives of twenty saints and heroes of the faith, we have an introduction to the history of the church from 3rd century A.D. to the Reformation. These stories chronicle their lives and...

Maggie Travers and 9 more 4 hours 16 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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William J. Long - Little Brother to the Bear

William J. Long again introduces us to some of the Wood Folk and their stories of living based on his own observations in the woods. In this volume, Mooweesuk the Coon is called the bear's little brother because he so...

Maggie Travers 4 hours 19 minutes

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Literary Fiction

858

Charles Dickens - Christmas Books

From 1843 to 1848, Charles Dickens wrote a series of five novellas to be published at Christmas. Most people are familiar with the first, «A Christmas Carol.» The others are «The Chimes,» «The Cricket on the Hearth,»...

Hamlet 15 hours 22 minutes

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Homeric Hymns, Epigrams, and The Battle of Frogs and Mice

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Homer - Homeric Hymns, Epigrams, and The Battle of Frogs and Mice

Homeric Hymns are thirty-three poems each paying homage to a certain Greek god. Only a few of the poems are more than 250 lines while the rest are about a dozen lines each. They are written in Homeric style and...

Arthur Krolman 3 hours 7 minutes

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Nature

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Birds and All Nature, Vol. V, No 4, April 1899

«Birds and All Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color...

Shelly Tumbleson and 13 more 2 hours 30 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

800

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Wyllard's Weird

A novel written in three volumes. In the golden age of steam, the London train wends its way across the Tamar into the strange and mystic land that is Cornwall, having left most of its length at Plymouth. A weary...

Lynne T 17 hours 19 minutes

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Tragedy

625

Giuseppe Giacosa - Bohème

In 1830s Paris, four struggling Bohemian artists: the poet Rodolfo, the painter Marcello, the musician Schaunard, and the philosopher Colline, live poorly, but happily. On Christmas Eve, to celebrate, the four split...

1 hour 33 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

808

Harold Speed - Practice and Science of Drawing

This book is an attempt to teach beginning students how to draw. Starting out with intuition and vision, Harold Speed explains line and mass drawing, and how rhythm is conveyed in art by means of balance and...

ogbog and 13 more 7 hours 48 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

888

Theodor Fontane - Effi Briest (abridged)

Effi Briest is a classic of Prussian Realism, relatively unknown in the English speaking world, but widely taught in German schools. This tragic tale tells the story of Effi, a young woman from an old and respectable...

Margaret Espaillat 8 hours 51 minutes

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General Fiction

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Susan Glaspell - Glory Of The Conquered

«The Glory Of The Conquered, The Story Of A Great Love» is Susan Glaspell's first novel. It tells the story of Karl, who was blinded after being injured by a lab experiment and his wife, Ernestine, who nursed...

Sheila and 8 more 9 hours 55 minutes

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