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Biography & Autobiography

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Jesse Pomeroy - Autobiography of Jesse H. Pomeroy

Jesse Harding Pomeroy was only 12 years old when he was arrested for the assault of 7 boys near his home in the South Boston area of Massachusetts. He was sent to reform school for a year and released. Shortly after...

Roger Melin 3 hours 35 minutes

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Comedy

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William Shakespeare - Measure For Measure

Described as a «problem play» Measure for Measure is only as much a problem as life itself is- that is, are there any easy answers to questions aplenty? For example: when «mortality and mercy» live in one person's...

Tony Addison 3 hours 27 minutes

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Middle Ages/Middle History

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John Brown - History of the English Bible

The celebration of the Tercentenary of the Authorized Version of the English Bible of 1611 has called into existence the little book here presented to the reader's notice. It is the brief repetition of a story...

MaryAnn 3 hours 11 minutes

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Beacon Lights of History, Vol 5: The Middle Ages

Middle Ages/Middle History

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John Lord - Beacon Lights of History, Vol 5: The Middle Ages

Volume 5 continues the commentary on world history begun in the first four volumes. This volume looks at some of the main religious figures of the Middle Ages, as well as social issues like the Crusades and the feudal...

KHand 8 hours 42 minutes

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War & Military Fiction

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Henri Barbusse - Under Fire: The Story of a Squad

An English translation of the French World War I novel «Le Feu», written by a French soldier and dedicated to «the memory of the comrades who fell by my side at Crony and on Hill 119.» Barbusse was invalided out of...

Beth Thomas and 8 more 12 hours 19 minutes

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Well at the World's End: Book 3: The Road to The Well at the World's End

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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William Morris - Well at the World's End: Book 3: The Road to The Well at the World's End

In The Well at the World's End, Ralph of Upmeads, youngest son of the King of Upmeads, leaves home (where nothing exciting ever happens) without permission and sets out looking for adventure. When he hears rumors of a...

Paezra and 4 more 3 hours 18 minutes

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Meridiana: The adventures of three Englishmen and three Russians in South Africa

Travel Fiction

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Jules Verne - Meridiana: The adventures of three Englishmen and three Russians in South Africa

Three Englishmen and Three Russians travel across the width of South Africa to measure a meridian. The outbreak of the Crimean War makes the Russians enemy agents in an English colony. Summary by Kim.

Ryan and 8 more 5 hours 28 minutes

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Anthologies

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Athenaeum Souvenir

The Manchester Athenaeum was founded in 1837 as a society for the «advancement and diffusion of knowledge». This short collection of poems was published to raise money for the society's annual bazaar. The collection...

Phil Benson 1 hour 31 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Herbert Francis Peyser - George Frideric Handel

Handel’s long career resembles a gigantic tapestry, so bewilderingly crowded with detail, so filled with turmoil and vicissitude, with vast achievements, extremes of good and ill fortune, and unending comings and...

David Wales 1 hour 49 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Herbert Francis Peyser - Joseph Haydn; Servant And Master

Haydn, barring a few hardships in his youth, lived an extraordinarily fortunate life and had abundant reason for the optimism which marked every step of his progress… Haydn was a master by the grace of Heaven and a...

David Wales 2 hours 1 minute

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War & Military

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Justin McCarthy - Reign of Queen Anne, Volume I

Anne Stuart (1665-1714), Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, succeeded William III to the throne in 1702. She was the daughter of the deposed Catholic king, James II, but was of the Anglican faith. Liberal, Irish...

Pamela Nagami 13 hours 42 minutes

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Single author

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George Murray - Poems

George Murray was a British poet, translator and scholar who lived out most of his life in Canada, where he was a classics master at a Montreal high school. In this collection, intermixed with his own original poetry,...

Tomas Peter and 8 more 5 hours 56 minutes

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