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Paulownia: Seven Stories from Contemporary Japanese Writers

Short Stories

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Ōgai Mori - Paulownia: Seven Stories from Contemporary Japanese Writers

Paulownia is a collection of seven stories by three Japanese authors from the late 19th and early 20th century. Mori Ōgai was an army surgeon who was sent to study in Germany, where he developed an interest in...

Availle 2 hours 25 minutes

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Ancient

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Sophist

Sophist (Ancient Greek: Σοφιστής) discusses being and not-being while drawing a distinction between the philosopher and the sophist. — Summary by Geoffrey Edwards

Geoffrey Edwards 2 hours 39 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - House of the Dead

The House of the Dead is a novel published in 1861 by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. Dostoyevsky himself spent four years in exile in such a camp...

Expatriate 11 hours 30 minutes

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Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics

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Robert Stawell Ball - Great Astronomers

Of all the natural sciences there is not one which offers such sublime objects to the attention of the inquirer as does the science of astronomy. From the earliest ages the study of the stars has exercised the same...

MaryAnn 9 hours 15 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Ray Cummings - Astounding Stories 06, June 1930

Issue six of this seminal science-fiction magazine concludes the Ray Cummings story «Brigands of the Moon», and continues Murray Leinster's «Murder Madness». In addition there are three short stories, by various...

KHand and 5 more 8 hours 28 minutes Astounding Stories Magazines Issues 1-20

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I've Come to Stay: A Love Comedy of Bohemia

Romance

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Mary Heaton Vorse - I've Come to Stay: A Love Comedy of Bohemia

An iconoclast in many fields herself, Mary Heaton Vorse was fascinated with Bohemia, the colorful unboundaried land of poets and artists and philosophers, a place whose denizens lived by their own rules without regard...

Expatriate 2 hours 29 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Charles George Harper - Revolted Woman

One man's opinion of woman in 1894. Charles Harper believes in the superiority of the male sex and the subordination of the female. He paints an entire gender with the same brush. He believes all women to be identical...

Bev J Stevens 3 hours 53 minutes

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Modern

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Robert G. Ingersoll - Mistakes of Moses

Robert G. Ingersoll was an extremely popular humanist orator in the late nineteenth century, and he wrote Mistakes of Moses after many bootlegged versions of his speeches had been published and circulated. In Mistakes...

Margaret Espaillat 5 hours 58 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Earl Derr Biggers - Love Insurance

A young man came to Lloyds of London. He knew they took out policies on unusual risks… And what he wanted was love insurance. What follows is a comic novel, by the creator of the Chinese detective — Charlie Chan! —...

Linda Andrus and 5 more 7 hours 31 minutes

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Short Stories

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H. A. Guerber - Story of the Greeks

This book is a collection of stories and histories about the Ancient Greeks, including many of their famous myths! — Summary by Ann Boulais

Donald Cummings and 44 more 7 hours 35 minutes

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Single author

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Conrad Aiken - House of Dust: A Symphony

The House of Dust is a poem written in the four-movement format of a classical symphony. Hauntingly beautiful despite its bleak post-World War I depictions of human mortality and loss, the poem develops its movements...

Expatriate 2 hours 21 minutes

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Single author

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Thomas Hardy - Wessex Poems

A collection of poetry by Thomas Hardy, some of which were previously published or adapted into his prose works. — Summary by Libby Gohn

Libby Gohn 2 hours 11 minutes

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