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Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 2, 1844 to 1847

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Hans Christian Andersen - Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 2, 1844 to 1847

A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. (Summary by Kristingj)

K.G.Cross and 10 more 6 hours 16 minutes

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Upton Sinclair - Book of Life

Faith and reason, love and virtue, morality and mortality! In these two short volumes the famous novelist, essayist, and playwright, Upton Sinclair, confided his most prized worldly wisdom for generations to come....

Rom Maczka 18 hours 50 minutes

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Single Author Collections

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Edna Ferber - One Basket

This sparkling collection of 7 short stories by Ferber includes some that are considered her all time best like The Woman Who Tried To be Good and The Maternal Feminine. Writing for and about women, Edna Ferber...

Phil Chenevert 5 hours 7 minutes

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Romance

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Amanda McKittrick Ros - Irene Iddesleigh

Amanda McKittrick Ros, a Northern Irish writer, did for the novel what William McGonagall did for poetry and Florence Foster Jenkins for the coloratura voice. She published a number of novels (all at her own...

Andy Minter and 7 more 3 hours 55 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Amy Le Feuvre - Jill's Red Bag

Jack and Jill, along with their little sister «Bumps», are two pickles. Their curious, wild ways are too much for their guardians. But when their older sister reluctantly employs a governess for them, their feet are...

GabrielleC and 3 more 3 hours 54 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Mary Knight Potter - Peggy's Trial

Ten-year old Peggy Clayton and her two younger brothers, Teddy and Harry, live with their father, Dr. Clayton, and Nurse, a woman who has taken care of them since the death of their mother when Peggy was five. Peggy...

Lee Ann Howlett 1 hour 39 minutes

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Mark Twain - Old Times on the Mississippi

Old Times on the Mississippi is a non-fiction work by Mark Twain. It was published in 1876. Originally published in serial form in the Atlantic Monthly, in 1875, this same work was published as chapters 4 through 17...

John Greenman 3 hours 38 minutes

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General Fiction

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L. G. Moberly - Christina

«Christina is a story of two people: Christina, a strong young and poor woman who searches for work and finds more than she bargained for, and Rupert, a middle class man who is pressured to marry and settle down....

Chuck Williamson and 5 more 10 hours 30 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Stewart Edward White - Blazed Trail

Stewart Edward White wrote fiction and non-fiction about adventure and travel, with an emphasis on natural history and outdoor living. White's books were popular at a time when America was losing its vanishing...

Tom Weiss 11 hours 27 minutes

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Political Science

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Owen Wister - Pentecost of Calamity

Nonfiction. Appalled by the savagery of World War I, Owen Wister in 1915 published an attempt to move the United States out of neutrality into joining the Allies against Germany. His aim was the quicker defeat of that...

David Wales 1 hour 38 minutes

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Thomas Stevens - Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. 2

Thomas Stevens was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle, a large-wheeled Ordinary. His journey started in April 1884 in San Francisco from where he cycled to Boston to take a steamer to England. Crossing...

William Tomcho and 6 more 19 hours 52 minutes

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War & Military

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Ambrose Bierce - Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War

At the outset of the American Civil War, [the writer Ambrose] Bierce enlisted in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment....In February 1862 he was commissioned First Lieutenant, and served on the staff of...

Winston Tharp 1 hour 40 minutes

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