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General Fiction

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Rebecca Harding Davis - Life in the Iron Mills

This 1861 novella was the first published work by Rebecca Harding Davis: writer, social reformer, and pioneer of literary realism. It tells the story of Hugh Wolfe, a Welsh laborer in an iron mill who is also a...

Elizabeth Klett 1 hour 31 minutes

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Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin’s Boarding School (version 2)

Children's Fiction

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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin’s Boarding School (version 2)

Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored, indulgent father dies. (Summary by AngelFirePixie)

Dodge Reid and 2 more 1 hour 45 minutes

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Inventions of the Idiot (dramatic reading)

Dramatic Readings

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John Kendrick Bangs - Inventions of the Idiot (dramatic reading)

«It was before the Idiot's marriage, and in the days when he was nothing more than a plain boarder in Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog's High-class Home for Single Gentlemen, that he put what the School-master termed his...

2 hours 38 minutes

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Plays

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Friedrich Schiller - Mary Stuart

Schiller's tragedy depicts the final days of Mary, Queen of Scots, who has been imprisoned by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, because of her potential claim on the English throne. The action of the play revolves...

4 hours 1 minute

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Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69

Sports & Recreation

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Edward Whymper - Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69

Scrambles Amongst the Alps is one the great classics (some would say the greatest) of early mountaineering literature, and Edward Whymper (1840-1911) one of the leading figures of the early years of Alpine climbing....

Nicholas Clifford 10 hours 4 minutes

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Family

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Lilian C. Garis - Bobbsey Twins in the Country

The second book in The Bobbsey Twins series finds the two sets of twins experiencing life in the country during the first part of their summer vacation from school. Their stay with their aunt, uncle and cousins on...

Lee Ann Howlett 4 hours 20 minutes

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Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities

General Fiction

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Stephen Leacock - Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities

TriciaG 5 hours 32 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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P. G. Wodehouse - Selected Short Stories.

A miscellaneous collection of short stories, not featuring any of Wodehouse's regular characters, most concern love and romance and, being Wodehouse, all are amusing.(Summary by Wikipedia)

Mike Harris 5 hours 38 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Short Science Fiction Collection 041

Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The...

Steven Anderson and 10 more 5 hours 39 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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General Fiction

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Mary Wollstonecraft - Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman

Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman is Mary Wollstonecraft's unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. It was published posthumously in 1798 by her husband,...

BumbleVee 4 hours 45 minutes

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Self-Help

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Dale Carnegie - Art of Public Speaking

The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and Joseph B. Esenwein is a manual for people who have to speak in public, and it is still in use today. Whether the occasion in question is sharing travel experiences with...

Michael Lipschultz and 7 more 19 hours 51 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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G. A. Henty - In Freedom's Cause

Another stirring tale from the master of historical fiction set in the time of Robert Bruce and William Wallace and their struggle for Scotland's independence. (Summary by Annise)

Mike Harris and 3 more 10 hours 16 minutes

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