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Christian Fiction

950

Rosalind Goforth - Chinese Diamonds for the King of Kings

In this small book Rosalind Goforth tells many stories of 'diamonds' in China that have been tested and come out pure in the King of Kings' hand for His service. Sketch 9 speaks of the awful facts of the «heathen»...

pattymarie and 9 more 3 hours 10 minutes

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War & Military

725

Mandell Creighton - Queen Elizabeth

«The Princess Elizabeth of England was born at Greenwich, between three and four of the afternoon of September 7, 1533. Her birth was a matter of small rejoicing to her parents, who were sorely disappointed that their...

Pamela Nagami 8 hours 54 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

735

Rose Macaulay - Making of a Bigot

“How various is man! How multiplied his experience, his outlook, his conclusions!”—H. Belloc. “And every single one of them is right.”—R. Kipling. Written while Macaulay worked in the Propaganda Department of...

Rhys Lawson and 6 more 7 hours 31 minutes

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Animals

812

Elizabeth Brightwen - Wild Nature Won by Kindness

This is a delightful collection of stories about a few of the birds, puppies, ant-lions, spiders and other assorted bugs this lady either rescued or found and then observed carefully as they made their way to...

Logan Lorenz and 10 more 3 hours 59 minutes

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Animals

814

William Henry Hudson - Birds and Man

During the later part of his life Hudson lived in southern England, where he was involved very early on with the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds). Birds and Man is a slow moving work where Hudson...

clarinetcarrot 6 hours 25 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

958

Victor Hugo - Hans of Iceland

Hans of Iceland was written in 1821 and is the very first novel written by young Victor, years before he became the great Hugo. It has all the ingredients of a gothic novel: dreadful murders by the hand of a human...

Sonia 13 hours 12 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

929

Anonymous - Nell and Her Grandfather

If you have heard of the Dickens novel, The Old Curiosity Shop, and remember Nell Trent, the beautiful and virtuous young girl of «not quite fourteen», an orphan, who lived with her maternal grandfather in his shop of...

Phil Chenevert and 6 more 2 hours 11 minutes

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Comedy

845

Aristophanes - Lysistrata (version 2)

Lysistrata has had enough. She is tired of the constant war that is ravaging Greece and has come up with a solution: Together with female friends from other Greek cities, she persuades all women of Greece to pledge an...

1 hour 30 minutes

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*Non-fiction

794

Jacob A. Riis - Out of Mulberry Street

These riveting accounts by Jacob A. Riis are from the late 19th century, when lower Manhattan was teeming with struggling, near-starving immigrants crammed into wretched fire-prone tenements. Riis writes...

Lee Smalley 5 hours 30 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

768

Sarah Hopkins Bradford - Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman

A portrait of Harriet Tubman is scheduled to replace that of Andrew Jackson on the front of the U.S. $20 bill in 2020. Sarah H. Bradford, who knew Tubman personally, wrote these scenes from Tubman's extraordinary life...

Sue Anderson 3 hours 1 minute

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Hospital Transports; A Memoir Of The Embarkation Of The Sick And Wounded From The Peninsula Of Virginia In The Summer Of 1862

War & Military

709

Frederick Law Olmsted - Hospital Transports; A Memoir Of The Embarkation Of The Sick And Wounded From The Peninsula Of Virginia In The Summer Of 1862

In the American Civil War, The United States Sanitary Commission, staffed by volunteers, may be viewed as a precursor to The Red Cross. It supplemented the medical care of the armed services medical corps. Its...

David Wales 3 hours 48 minutes

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 8

Anthologies

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 8

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering «American households a mass of good reading», the editors drew from...

Larry Wilson and 20 more 18 hours 9 minutes Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

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