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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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London Labour and the London Poor Volume II

Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Henry Mayhew - London Labour and the London Poor Volume II

Subtitled, «A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.» «The history of a people from the lips of the people themselves… their...

Gillian Hendrie 62 hours 12 minutes

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Single author

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Mary Coleridge - Poems

Mary Coleridge was a novelist, essayist and biographer. She was also a talented poet, and her posthumously published verses are variously meditative, joyous, gothic, wistful and devotional. (Newgatenovelist)

Newgatenovelist 4 hours 1 minute

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History

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John Lord - Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10: European Leaders

Continuing the series with European Leaders, Dr. Lord discusses William IV, Sir Robert Peel, Cavour, Czar Nicholas, Louis Napoleon, Prince Bismarck, William Ewart Gladstone. (Summary by KHand)

KHand 7 hours 31 minutes

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Nature

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Birds and Nature, Vol. XI, No 3, March 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...

Larry Wilson and 8 more 2 hours 10 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Published 1900 onward

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Eden Phillpotts - Human Boy

This collection of eleven short stories, both humorous and touching, about English school boys was published in 1900. The book was quite popular in its time. The author wrote two follow-up books: The Human Boy Again...

David Wales 4 hours 20 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Gerald Breckenridge - Radio Boys on the Mexican Border

When Bob and Frank get in touch with their friend Jack in New Mexico via radio telephony, a desperate cry for help sends the Radio Boys on an adventure on the Mexican Border. — Summary by Chris Thompson

Christopher Thompson 4 hours 17 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Charles S. Brooks - At The Sign of The Greedy Pig

«Sometimes, in a mood of Spanish castles, there flits across my fancy the vision of an ancient city on a hill-top, with lofty battlements thrust upward from the rock and towers that stand on tip-toe…. Our stage is the...

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Plays

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Ben Jonson - Every Man In His Humour

Knowell, an old man — rumor says Shakespeare originally played this part — tries to spy upon the doings of his potentially wayward son. Meanwhile, Kitely, a merchant, worries so much about being cuckolded by his wife...

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General Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Fatal Three

Written by one of the most prolific authors of the 19th century The Fatal Three although not as sensational as some of her other novels serves up some very fascinating characters. It also raises some very interesting...

Celine Major 14 hours 15 minutes

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Poetry

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George Meredith - Reading of Life, with Other Poems

This is a volume of poetry by George Meredith. The first four poems are the cycle A Circle of Life, the rest of the poems are miscellaneous collected poems. — Summary by Carolin

Michael L and 4 more 1 hour 49 minutes

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Poetry

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Frances E. W. Harper - Poems

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an influential female African American poet. Her poetry often deals with themes of freedom, discrimination, hatred, and injustice. Her poetry remains relevant to this day, and is still...

Larry Wilson and 8 more 1 hour 40 minutes

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