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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Peter Nikolaevich Polevoi - Russian Fairy Tales

The existence of the Russian Skazki or Märchen was first made generally known to the British public by Mr W. R. S. Ralston in his “Russian Folk-Tales.” That excellent and most engrossing volume was, primarily, a...

Expatriate 5 hours 53 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Louisa May Alcott - Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Vol. 5

A book of short stories by Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women and Eight Cousins . It includes Two Little Travellers , a story about two very different little girls, Lunch , a story of two women who resolve...

Lois Beachy Yoder and 9 more 3 hours 44 minutes

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Myths And Legends Of California And The Old Southwest

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Katharine Berry Judson - Myths And Legends Of California And The Old Southwest

"...The preparation of a volume of the quainter, purer myths, suitable for general reading, authentic, and with illustrations of the country portrayed, but with no pretensions to being a purely scientific piece...

David Wales 3 hours 23 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jack London - Tales of the Fish Patrol

Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp-catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast armies till it reaches fresh water, when it turns about and crawls back again...

Don W. Jenkins 2 hours 56 minutes

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Astral Plane: Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena

Philosophy

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C. W. Leadbeater - Astral Plane: Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena

As sceptics dismissed other-worldly phenomena as the stuff of legend, trickery or delusion, nineteenth-century 'occult science' set out to explain them scientifically. Here, C. W. Leadbeater maps out the scenery and...

Phil Benson 3 hours 29 minutes

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General Fiction

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Coffee Break Collection 011 - Science

This is the eleventh collection of our «coffee break» series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to...

Larry Wilson and 13 more 2 hours 44 minutes Coffee Break Collections

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Biography & Autobiography

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Edward A. Steiner - From Alien To Citizen

Edward Steiner spent his life figuring out how America manages to take in aliens from all over the world, who bring with them a huge diversity of beliefs, habits, ethics, prejudices, expectations, etc., throws them...

Michele Fry 6 hours 42 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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D. H. Lawrence - Rainbow (Version 2)

Briefly appearing in 1915, then banned and taken out of circulation for its adult treatment of sexuality, Lawrence's visionary novel The Rainbow attempts to situate the lives of three generations of the Brangwen...

Tony Foster 19 hours 27 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - North and South (version 3)

North and South is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the North of England. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural south, Margaret Hale settles with her parents in Milton where she witnesses the...

MaryAnn 19 hours 3 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Charles Willard Diffin - Astounding Stories 12, December 1930

This issue includes «Slaves of the Dust» by Sophie Wenzel Ellis, Part B of «The Pirate Planet» by Charles W. Diffin, «The Sea Terror» by Captain S. P. Meek, «Gray Denim» by Harl Vincent, and «The Ape-Men of Xlotli» by...

Bill Boerst 7 hours 47 minutes Astounding Stories Magazines Issues 1-20

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History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution: Volume 2

Early Modern

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Rev. James MacCaffrey - History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution: Volume 2

In this second volume of a two volume set, the focus in on the history of the Catholic Church in England, Scotland, and Ireland, during the period from before the reformation up to the 19th century. Starting with the...

Maria Therese 13 hours 41 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Ivan Goncharov - Common Story

Alexander Fedoritch Adouev is the naïve, pampered son of Anna Pavlovna, a provincial landowner. He decides to go off to Saint Petersburg, not only to make his mark upon society but also to fulfill his two rosy...

Expatriate 10 hours 36 minutes

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