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Poetry

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Anna Katharine Green - Defence of the Bride and Other Poems

Anna Katharine Green is now best-known for her popular mystery and detective stories, but she also wrote some excellent poetry. — Summary by Carolin

Domenica Campbell and 7 more 3 hours 4 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 038

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include bedside books, South African cookery, Bryce canyon, Wilhelm Stekel's psychology, the Theologia Germanica,...

Newgatenovelist and 8 more 4 hours 21 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Poetry

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Poems of Optimism

This is a volume of Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The topic of this volume is «optimism». — Summary by Carolin

Greg Giordano and 16 more 2 hours 1 minute

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Essays & Short Works

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Samuel Johnson - Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson

This is a volume of selected essays by «the great master of reason» Samuel Johnson. The most famous exerpts from The Rambler, The Adventurer and The Idler are included, covering a vast range of topics. — Summary by...

Barbara Baker and 10 more 13 hours 21 minutes

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Science Fiction

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E. E. Smith - First Lensman

The Secret Planet. No human had ever landed on the hidden planet of Arisia. A mysterious space barrier turned back both men and ships. Then the word came to Earth, «Go to Arisia!», Virgil Samms of the Galactic...

Mark Nelson 11 hours 11 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Return of Sherlock Holmes (Version 3)

The book was first published in February 1905 by McClure, Phillips & Co. (New York) then on March 7, 1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd. (London) and was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had «died» in The...

David Clarke 11 hours 51 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Charles C. Burleigh - Thoughts on the Death Penalty

This 1845 publication, written by a prominent reformer of the day, argues against capital punishment from several perspectives, including historical, philosophical and biblical arguments. It is broken into 3 chapters:...

Larry Wilson and 5 more 6 hours 22 minutes

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Law

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Anonymous - Trial of Oscar Wilde (Dramatic Reading)

In 1895 Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years' hard labor. This account of his two trials was compiled from the original shorthand court reports by an anonymous author. While a more...

Rob Marland 3 hours 32 minutes

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Family

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Amy Le Feuvre - Odd

He found the word for her, and she read with difficulty, 'Trouble, distress, great affliction.' 'Do they all mean tribulation?' she asked. 'Tribulation means all of them,' was the answer. 'And can children have...

Rachel and 4 more 3 hours 45 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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George Gissing - Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

This novel consists of selections from the diary of an author, starting soon after his retirement and continuing until just before his death. There is very little in the way of plot, but a great deal of quiet musing...

Peter Eastman 7 hours 44 minutes

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Sermons on Several Occasions, Third-Fifth Series

Literary Collections

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John Wesley - Sermons on Several Occasions, Third-Fifth Series

John Wesley, along with his brother Charles, are credited with founding the Methodist denomination. «The following Sermons contain the substance of what I have been preaching for between eight and nine years last...

MaryAnn and 13 more 13 hours 13 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

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Rosalie Kaufman - Our Young Folks' Plutarch

Plutarch's Lives is a series of fifty biographies of famous Greek and Roman men written around 100 AD. In Our Young Folks' Plutarch , Rosalie Kaufman has adapted these biographies for young readers. In the preface...

April Walters and 14 more 18 hours 40 minutes

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