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Gilbert Parker - Lover's Diary

A collection of 83 rather besotted love sonnets by Gilbert Parker, written early in his career, with an accompanying interesting and someone apologetic Introduction by the author himself. Sir Gilbert Parker, as he...

Michele Fry and 6 more 1 hour 48 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 049

Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include science and natural history--carnivorous plants, tadpoles, tent caterpillars, flights of birds, horse training,...

Roger Melin and 7 more 3 hours 29 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm - Household Tales

The complete Brothers Grimm stories, as translated directly from the German. Some of the stories will be familiar such as The Frog Prince, Rapunzel, and Cinderella. Other tales are less well known such as The Three...

Beth Thomas and 39 more 30 hours 18 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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E. Phillips Oppenheim - Evil Shepherd

A businessman is found stabbed through the heart, the obvious suspect his partner: Oliver Hilditch. Hilditch seems destined for the gallows, but he is saved by brilliant defense attorney Francis Ledsam. It is a...

Richard Kilmer 8 hours 26 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Alice Meynell - Spirit of Place and Other Essays

Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League. She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing...

Larry Wilson and 6 more 2 hours 28 minutes

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Jane Austen and her Country-House Comedy

Biography & Autobiography

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William Henry Helm - Jane Austen and her Country-House Comedy

Written for the centenary of Jane Austen's death, W. H. Helm reflects poetically on the timelessness of her work: the must of age has not settled on her books. The lavender may lie between their pages, but it is...

deongines and 3 more 4 hours 50 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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A. E. W. Mason - Clementina

This well-written novel is a fictional account of a true historical rescue mission. In 1719, at the age of 17, when she was on her way across Europe to marry James Stuart, the Catholic pretender to the British throne,...

Jacquerie 9 hours 15 minutes

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Short works

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Boy Scout Book of Campfire Stories

The Editor likes to think that quite a few of the stories found in the Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories present companions for the mind of this hardy sort, and hopes, whether boys read or are told these stories,...

Monty Spanarro and 6 more 7 hours 55 minutes

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History

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Agnes C. Laut - Canada: The Empire of the North

Canada's past is more dramatic than any romance ever penned.... All that has been attempted here is such a story of the romance and adventure in Canada's nation building as will give the casual reader knowledge of the...

Lynda Marie Neilson 18 hours 18 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Gustave Flaubert - Temptation Of St. Anthony

An extraordinary work of the aesthetic imagination, cast in the form of a psycho-drama detailing the events of one night in the life of the aged hermit, later Saint, Anthony, in the course of which his claims to...

Tony Addison 6 hours 53 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Alfred George Gardiner - Prophets, Priests, And Kings

These biographical essays of (mostly) British subjects were written in 1907-1908 for The Daily News newspaper and reflect their subjects as seen before the great cataclysm of World War I. Gardiner was a British...

David Wales 10 hours 52 minutes

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Early Modern

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 1

Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's first book, it describes the three-stage dialectical life of Spirit. The title can...

maurice and 1 more 13 hours 12 minutes

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