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Anthologies

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Kenneth Grahame - Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children

A collection of poems, many well-known or by famous writers for children, celebrating the joys of life for children and avoiding the all-too-common subject of death. Selected and edited by Kenneth Grahame. — Summary...

Leonard Wilson and 8 more 2 hours 17 minutes

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Anthologies

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Henry Norman - Broken Shaft: Tales in Mid-Ocean

This special anthology, published in 1885, is formed of seven stories, together with an introductory chapter setting up a framing narrative by Henry Norman, which is returned to at the end of each subsequent tale....

tjp1421 and 4 more 5 hours 51 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Warwick Deeping - Woman's War

The fictional small English country town of Roxton boasts two doctors. This tale focuses on the struggles of their wives: Katherine and the «good» Dr. James Murchison and Betty and the «bad» Dr. Parker Steele. But, of...

Lynne T 9 hours 21 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Frederick Marryat - Peter Simple

Peter Simple, 'the fool of the family', son of a parson but heir presumptive to a title, goes to sea as midshipman during the Napoleonic wars. Naturally, at sea in this period is where adventures are just waiting for...

Sylviamb and 7 more 16 hours 12 minutes

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wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl, the Man who lost his Shadow

Fantastic Fiction

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Adelbert von Chamisso - wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl, the Man who lost his Shadow

Peter Schlemihl is an ordinary man until one day he bargains with the devil: He trades his shadow for a bottomless purse. While this sounds like a good idea at first, it turns out that having no shadow is considered...

Mihai Borobocea and 3 more 2 hours 39 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Elliott O'Donnell - Sorcery Club

Leon Hamar and his friends were out-of-work and starving in San Francisco after the firm they worked for went out of business. Leon acquired a strange book and some cash in a trade for his watch-chain, one of his last...

Don W. Jenkins 9 hours 39 minutes

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Science

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Richard A. Proctor - Light Science for Leisure Hours

In preparing these Essays, my chief object has been to present scientific truths in a light and readable form—clearly and simply, but with an exact adherence to the facts as I see them. I have followed—here and...

Lynda Marie Neilson and 9 more 9 hours 40 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Clifton Johnson - Book of Fairy-Tale Bears

Bears make an appearance in so many fairy tales and fables, it is difficult to imagine a fairy-tale world without them. However, in most of those fairy tales, the bear is just a side-character. In this volume, Clifton...

AmyMc and 9 more 2 hours 12 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Frank L. Packard - Night Operator

A collection of ten railroad short stories: «And so these are the stories of the Hill Division and of the men who wrought upon it; the stories of those days when it was young and in the making; the stories of the days...

Delmar H Dolbier 9 hours 30 minutes

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War & Military

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George Hooper - Wellington

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1769-1852), was born in Dublin, the younger son of an Irish Protestant aristocrat. He served with his brother in India and rose to prominence during the Napoleonic Wars in...

Pamela Nagami 7 hours 50 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Marshall Saunders - 'Tilda Jane's Orphans

When the story of 'Tilda Jane appeared serially in The Youth's Companion in 1901, the original manuscript was very much condensed. When the time for book publication arrived nearly all the omitted matter was...

Kayli Ziervogel and 7 more 8 hours 20 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Eugène Sue - Mysteries of Paris - Volume 2

Rodolphe, is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. He can speak in argot, is extremely strong and a good fighter. However he shows great compassion...

Celine Major 10 hours 12 minutes Mysteries of Paris

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