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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 2: The Massacres of the South

Biography & Autobiography

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 2: The Massacres of the South

Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent scenes of a violent time. In some instances facts appear distorted out...

John Van Stan 9 hours 2 minutes

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Clark Ashton Smith - Star-Treader and Other Poems

Clark Ashton Smith, referred to as one of the big three of Weird Tales, was a romantic-style poet, a Lovecraftian-style writer and a literary friend of H.P Lovecraft. As a poet, he was considered one of the last great...

Rosslyn Carlyle and 8 more 2 hours 9 minutes

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Julia Caroline Dorr - Earlier Poems

This is a collection of the earlier poems of Julia Caroline Dorr. — Summary by Carolin

Greg Giordano and 8 more 2 hours 27 minutes

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Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II (version 2)

Biography & Autobiography

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James Boswell - Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II (version 2)

This is the second of four volumes of a what was a new, intimate, type of biography when it was first published in 1791 and which has been annotated by numerous editors. This edition with footnotes is by George...

Barbara Baker 29 hours 11 minutes The Life of Samuel Johnson

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Children's Fiction

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Sara Ware Bassett - Story of Wool

Mr. Clark and Donald spend a year out west to the Crescent Ranch in Idaho learning about raising sheep. (summary by David O)

David Olson 3 hours 44 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Fergus Hume - Hagar of the Pawn-Shop

Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly London pawnbroker. He dies after teaching Hagar the business, and she takes...

Grant Hurlock 8 hours 21 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Sir Walter Scott - Monastery

Dame Elspeth is kept in a tower after the death of her husband. The widow of the Baron of Avenel and her daughter seek safety with Elspeth in her tower. Hearing the baroness's deathbed confession, Father Philip...

Bill Boerst 17 hours 40 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Hutchins Hapgood - Autobiography of a Thief

I met the ex-pickpocket and burglar whose autobiography follows soon after his release from a third term in the penitentiary. For several weeks I was not particularly interested in him. He was full of a desire to...

Ben Adams 6 hours 14 minutes

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General

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Caroline French Benton - Little Cook Book for a Little Girl

Join Margaret, a little girl who really wants to learn how to properly cook and bake everything from seafood to cake, as she sets out to make all the recipes she can find from her family, friends and the rest of the...

ashleighjane and 9 more 2 hours 58 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Henry James - Princess Casamassima

Princess Casamassima can be read on several levels: first, as a political and social novel, exploring the anarchistic and revolutionary underground of London in the 1880s; secondly as a psychological study of such a...

Nicholas Clifford 21 hours 34 minutes

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Animals

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William J. Long - Wilderness Ways

Late nineteenth-century naturalist William J. Long invites us into the secret worlds of woodland animals in this, his second, fascinating book. Long's stories of the secret lives of woodland animals come from time he...

Kangaroo and 4 more 3 hours 43 minutes Wood Folk Series

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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L. Frank Baum - Lost Princess of Oz (version 2)

Oh My Goodness!!! Princess Ozma is missing and no one can find her. The whole kingdom of OZ is upset and our heroes must set out to brave many dangers and adventures to search for their beloved girl ruler. When...

Phil Chenevert 5 hours 32 minutes Oz books

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