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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Rudyard Kipling - Puck of Pook's Hill (version 2)

'Puck of Pook's Hill' is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. It can count both as historical fantasy – since some of...

Nick Whitley 7 hours 11 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Edgar Allan Poe - Murders in the Rue Morgue (version 2)

«The Murders in the Rue Morgue» is a story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been recognized as the first detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his «tales of ratiocination»....

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 40 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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J. S. Fletcher - Borough Treasurer

Messrs. Mallalieu and Cotherstone were outsiders who had built a prosperous business in Highmarket and even been elected as Mayor and Treasurer of the borough. But when an ex-detective moves to town, 30 years of...

MaryAnn 7 hours 56 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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E. Phillips Oppenheim - Devil's Paw

A beautiful, intelligent young woman – is she a traitorous spy or a patriot? An aristocratic soldier permanently injured during the war – is he a patriot or is there more to him than meets the eye? A clandestine...

Tom Weiss 6 hours 30 minutes

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David Wark Griffith: A Brief Sketch of His Career

Biography & Autobiography

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Robert Edgar Long - David Wark Griffith: A Brief Sketch of His Career

An authorized biography of D.W. Griffith, the self-proclaimed «Father of Filmmaking.» Written in collaboration with the director, Robert Edgar Long's biographical sketch traces Griffith's early life, his career as an...

Chuck Williamson and 1 more 4 hours 37 minutes

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Science

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Jean-Henri Fabre - Secret of Everyday Things

The clearness, simpicity, and charm of the great French naturalist's style are nowhere better illustrated than in this work, which in its variety of subject-matter and apt use of entertaining anecdote rivals «The...

MaryAnn 8 hours 53 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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May Sinclair - Romantic

As a simple story told, «The Romantic» is one of Sinclair’s tightest and most compelling. Charlotte Redhead, a young British secretary, finds herself in a degrading extra-marital affair with her boss. In reaction, she...

Expatriate 4 hours 23 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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William Harrison Ainsworth - Windsor Castle, Book 5

Book 5 — Mabel Lyndwood. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as his wife. During Henry's pursuit of Boleyn, the novel describes other...

acousticwave and 4 more 1 hour 45 minutes Windsor Castle

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Anonymous - Picture Book Of Merry Tales

Forty European folk tales. Caveats: 1. Some of these stories are not suitable for young children. 2. In two stories (10 and 25) appear the nineteenth century’s almost-reflexive Jew-stereotype and anti-Semitism. —...

David Wales 4 hours 16 minutes

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Junior Classics Volume 7: Stories of Courage and Heroism

General

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William Patten - Junior Classics Volume 7: Stories of Courage and Heroism

The stories in this volume are true stories, and have been arranged in chronological order, an arrangement that will aid the reader to remember the times to which the stories relate. Almost any encyclopedia can...

Greg Laughland and 13 more 14 hours 43 minutes The Junior Classics

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Science Fiction

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Arthur J. Burks - Astounding Stories 07, July 1930

Issue seven of this seminal science-fiction magazine — Summary by Annise

ScottReyonoldsVoice and 5 more 8 hours 50 minutes Astounding Stories Magazines Issues 1-20

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Perpetual Peace, A Philosophic Essay (Trueblood Translation)

Political Science

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Immanuel Kant - Perpetual Peace, A Philosophic Essay (Trueblood Translation)

This essay, written in 1795, puts forth a plan for a lasting peace between nations and peoples. Kant puts forth necessary means to any peace, and argues that nations can be brought into federation with one another...

D.E. Wittkower 2 hours 2 minutes

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