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Nature

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Birds and Nature, Vol. XI, No 4, April 1902

«Birds and Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes and factual descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with...

tovarisch and 11 more 2 hours 21 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Junior Classics Volume 2: Folk Tales & Myths

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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William Patten - Junior Classics Volume 2: Folk Tales & Myths

Compilation of tales designed and arranged for young people. This volume covers tales from the North, the Rhine, Greece and Rome, tales from the Hudson River, and animal stories. — Summary by DrPGould

DrPGould and 15 more 14 hours 28 minutes The Junior Classics

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Animals & Nature

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Arthur Scott Bailey - Tale of Old Mr. Crow

Arthur Scott Bailey, a native of the state of Vermont, wrote over forty children's books using a variety of animals, birds and even insects to entertain. The Tale of Old Mr. Crow is one of 16 stories of his Tuck-Me-In...

Lynda Marie Neilson 1 hour 56 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Eden Phillpotts - Human Boy Again

Published in 1908, this is a further collection of twelve humorous short stories about English school boys. The author wrote two other books in this series: The Human Boy (1900) and The Human Boy And The War (1916)....

David Wales 6 hours 15 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Basil King - Empty Sack

The book follows the fortunes of Jennie Follett, a New York artist’s model, and Teddy, her brother. After their father’s dismissal from his lowly position in the bank and his subsequent death, the family struggles...

Simon Evers 10 hours 25 minutes

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History

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Simon Dubnow - History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 1 [of 3] From the Beginning until the Death of Alexander I (1825)

Simon Dubnow was born in 1860 to a poor Jewish family in Belarussian town of Mstsislaw and later became authority of Jewish history and an activist. Due to his Jewish origin, he had to move to St.Petersburg, Odessa,...

S S Kim 14 hours 52 minutes

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Excursion to the Lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland, August 1773

Travel & Geography

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William Hutchinson - Excursion to the Lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland, August 1773

In the summer of 1773, lawyer and antiquarian William Hutchinson set out from his home in County Durham on a tour of the English Lake District. Accompanied by his brother, George Allan, he travelled by horseback from...

Phil Benson 2 hours 26 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Walter Pater - Marius the Epicurean, Volume 2

The conclusion of Pater's historico-philosophical novel about a young Roman nobleman's search for purpose and meaning. Set in the time of Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, the book traces its title character's...

DrPGould 5 hours 20 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Lily A. Long - Hemlock Avenue Mystery

«The Hemlock Avenue Mystery» is one of a series of mysteries written by Lily Augusta Long using the pseudonym Roman Doubleday. A lawyer is accused of killing a rival lawyer, both having battled in court on...

Roger Melin 6 hours 54 minutes

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General Fiction

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Voltaire - Candide (version 3)

Ever since 1759, when Voltaire wrote «Candide» in ridicule of the notion that this is the best of all possible worlds, this world has been a gayer place for readers. Voltaire wrote it in three days, and five or six...

John Van Stan 4 hours 33 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Mary Webb - Precious Bane

Published in 1924, Precious Bane is a novel by Mary Webb (1881 — 1927) which touches on ambition, prejudice and hatred but also on the power of love. Prue Sarn is a farm girl in rural Shropshire during the period of...

NoelBadrian 11 hours 27 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Mary Webb - Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing

Mary Webb was a novelist and poet and two of her novels «Gone to Earth» and «Precious Bane» have been successfully adapted for film and television. She was passionate about nature and particularly the Shropshire...

NoelBadrian 3 hours

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