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Published 1900 onward

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Sherwood Anderson - Windy McPherson's Son

Windy McPherson's Son is the story of Sam McPherson's rise in the world of business and search for emotional enlightenment in later life. McPherson starts out as an ambitious newsboy in Caxton, Ohio, with drunkard of...

Lynne T and 5 more 10 hours 47 minutes

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War & Military

848

Thomas Babington Macaulay - Lord Clive

Robert Clive was, in Macaulay’s view, the real founder of British power in India. Macaulay himself served on the Governor’s Council in India from 1834 to 1838, working on legal and educational changes in that country....

Nicholas Clifford 3 hours 25 minutes

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Nature

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Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No 1, June 1899

«Birds and All Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color...

Subhash Chander and 10 more 2 hours 24 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Science Fiction

916

Robert Moore Williams - Planet of the Gods

Far, far in the future Earth has achieved real peace and is sending out interstellar expeditions, not to conquer, but to explore. The third such expedition, has made it to the Vega system and discovered to everyone's...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 45 minutes

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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 05. May 1896

Travel & Geography

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 05. May 1896

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the May Number. It includes the following articles: Africa Since 1888, by Hon. Gardiner G. Hubbard, LL. D. Fundamental Geographic Relation of the Three...

BettyB and 3 more 1 hour 40 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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Single Author Collections

974

Louisa May Alcott - 4 Stories by Louisa May Alcott

Here are four delightful short stories written by the famous author specifically for girls. As she says in the tiny preface «These stories were written for my own amusement during a period of enforced seclusion. The...

Roohi and 3 more 3 hours 28 minutes

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Tragedy

914

Henrik Ibsen - Brand

Inflamed by what he saw as his Norwegian homeland's shocking betrayal of Denmark after the Prussian invasion of Danish territory, Ibsen wrote «Brand» as an indictment of human complacency and rigidity of mind....

Expatriate 4 hours 57 minutes

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Plays

805

Molière - Bourgeois Gentleman

The Bourgeois Gentleman of the title is a middle-class social climber, assured that by learning all the arts of a true and noble gentleman, he shall truly become one. This enables Moliere to satire both the...

2 hours 5 minutes

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Nature

762

Zane Grey - Tales Of Lonely Trails

Western novelist Zane Grey (1872-1939) also wrote nonfiction books about the American West and its country. This 1922 tribute to country he loved consists of narratives of six different trips to various parts of the...

David Wales 13 hours 19 minutes

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*Non-fiction

996

Gustave Le Bon - Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

«Civilisations as yet have only been created and directed by a small intellectual aristocracy, never by crowds. Crowds are only powerful for destruction. Their rule is always tantamount to a barbarian phase. A...

Oxenhandler 5 hours 52 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 041

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include a woman in Alaska, Cuban folklore, and hunting peccaries on the Nueces; Max Planck's Quantum Theory and...

Availle and 10 more 4 hours 37 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Plays

740

Rachel Crothers - Man's World

The mysterious Frank Ware is a woman writer forced to write under a masculine pseudonym in order to win literary respect. Adding to her enigmatic status is the fact that she lives in New York City with her adopted...

Expatriate 2 hours 13 minutes

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