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Pliny the Elder - Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 2

The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of 37 books, covering more than 20.000 topics ranging from astronomy and...

Foon 2 hours 35 minutes

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World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Turkey

Historical Fiction

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Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Turkey

This is the sixth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art , edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature,...

Sonia and 19 more 16 hours 37 minutes World's Story

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Vegetable; or, From President to Postman

Comedy

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F. Scott Fitzgerald - Vegetable; or, From President to Postman

” “Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a...

2 hours 57 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Lucy Fitch Perkins - Cave Twins

Lucy Perkins has given us many books featuring twins that give a child insight into different cultures and countries. In this one she explaining prehistoric man and his environment: «This is a story about things that...

Bhavya 2 hours 5 minutes

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War & Military Fiction

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Edith Wharton - Son At The Front

This is an overlooked novel by the author of House Of Mirth, Age Of Innocence, and more. She already became the first woman to win the Pulitzer prize for literature before this novel was written. Edith Wharton is...

Beth Thomas and 6 more 10 hours 50 minutes

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Summer in a Canyon: A California Story (Dramatic Reading)

Children's Fiction

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Kate Douglas Wiggin - Summer in a Canyon: A California Story (Dramatic Reading)

A group of friends spend a summer camping in a canyon in Southern California. Fun camp adventures, breath-taking scenery, and a little state history and legends too. — Summary by LikeManyWaters Cast List:...

LikeManyWaters 5 hours 51 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Mary Cholmondeley - Notwithstanding

The book starts with Annette Georges choosing between two fates: suicide and running away with a disreputable stranger. She is rescued by a kind woman who looks after her until she can go to live with her maiden aunts...

Simon Evers 8 hours 39 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Joseph A. Altsheler - Last Rebel

Arthur West has been taken as a prisoner of war by Colonel Hetherhill of the Confederate States of America, and imprisoned at Fort Defiance, where an oddly small number of soldiers are stationed. More odd than the...

DavidG 3 hours 56 minutes

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Plays

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Ben Jonson - Every Man Out of His Humour

Every Man Out of His Humour followed Jonson's play Every Man In His Humour. «This play as a fabric of plot is a very slight affair; but as a satirical picture of the manners of the time, proceeding by means of vivid...

4 hours 38 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier - Inheritance

«As the noblest attribute of man, family pride had been cherished time immemorial by the noble race of Rossville. Deep and incurable, therefore, was the wound inflicted on all its members by the marriage of the...

Jim Locke 22 hours 45 minutes

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General Fiction

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Booth Tarkington - Beautiful Lady

Raffaele Ansolini is down on his luck: living in Paris is not quite so amazing if there are no funds to finance the amusement. So Ansolini has taken radical steps to support himself. Shaving off his hair, he uses his...

Rita Boutros 1 hour 48 minutes

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Fair Maid of Perth, Or, St. Valentine's Day

Historical Fiction

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Sir Walter Scott - Fair Maid of Perth, Or, St. Valentine's Day

Henry Gow has fallen in love with the Fair Maid of Perth, Catherine, the glovemaker's daughter. To make sure that he would be the first person she sees on Valentine's day, he walks to her house at the break of dawn,...

Rita Boutros and 3 more 20 hours 3 minutes

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