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Mathematics

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Silvanus P. Thompson - Calculus Made Easy

Calculus Made Easy: Being a Very-Simplest Introduction to Those Beautiful Methods of Reckoning which Are Generally Called by the Terrifying Names of the Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus is is a book...

Adam and 11 more 10 hours 7 minutes

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Poetry

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Susan Coolidge - Verses

Susan Coolidge was the pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, who is best known for her What Katy Did series. This is the first of three volumes of her verse. (Summary by Rachel)

Rachel and 17 more 2 hours 56 minutes

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Short works

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Laura E. Howe Richards - Three Minute Stories

This is a delightful collection of little stories for little people, just right to be listened to at bed time by a sleepy boy or girl. Some have a moral, some are just fun and some are poems; but all of them are...

mbm0rxi and 19 more 2 hours 20 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jack London - Dutch Courage and Other Stories

Jack London was quoted as saying, «I've never written a line that I'd be ashamed for my young daughters to read, and I never shall write such a line!» After his death in 1916, his wife Charmian assembled a collection...

Don W. Jenkins 3 hours 18 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev - Dark

The Dark is a novella about a desperate young man, a “terrorist and nihilist”, trying to avoid arrest by taking refuge in a brothel. The story focuses on his unfolding relationship with a prostitute in the brothel...

Lee Smalley 1 hour 56 minutes

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Single author

1.2K

George Santayana - Poems

George Santayana was born in Spain, educated in Boston and taught at Harvard before returning to Europe to spend the last forty years of his life writing. He is primarily known as a philosopher, his five-volume The...

Larry Wilson and 8 more 2 hours 39 minutes

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History of the Four Georges in Four Volumes, Volume 1

Early Modern

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Justin McCarthy - History of the Four Georges in Four Volumes, Volume 1

Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), liberal member of Parliament and historian. He brings the great 18th Century personalities to life: Walpole and Swift, Bolingbroke and Mary Wortley Montagu, the Old Pretender and Bonnie...

Pamela Nagami 12 hours 17 minutes

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Works and Days, The Theogony, and The Shield of Heracles

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Hesiod - Works and Days, The Theogony, and The Shield of Heracles

Works and Days provides advice on agrarian matters and personal conduct. The Theogony explains the ancestry of the gods. The Shield of Heracles is the adventure of Heracles accepting an enemy's challenge to fight....

Arthur Krolman 2 hours 29 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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John Galsworthy - Patrician

The book revolves around the story of two love affairs. Miltoun (an aspiring politician) proposes to Mrs Audrey Noel, only to find that she is not a widow as everyone supposes, but that her husband is still alive and...

Simon Evers 9 hours 49 minutes

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Poetry

1.6K

Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy and Other Poems

Sara Teasdale was an American poet, originally from Missouri, later attaching herself more to New York. Helen of Troy was one of her first great successes. This volume also contains the small drama On the Tower, which...

Katie Rose and 16 more 1 hour 51 minutes

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Poetry

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Adam Lindsay Gordon - Poems

This is a volume of poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon, 'British-born Australian Steeple-Chase Rider and Poet'. «The poems of Gordon have an interest beyond the mere personal one which his friends attach to his name....

Larry Wilson and 20 more 5 hours 22 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Èmile

Emile, or On Education or Émile, or Treatise on Education (French: Émile, ou De l’éducation) was published in 1762 in French and German and in 1763 in English. The significance of Rousseau in education as well as in...

Anne and 2 more 28 hours 51 minutes

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