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Poems and Songs in the Lancashire Dialect

Poetry

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Edwin Waugh - Poems and Songs in the Lancashire Dialect

A selection of poems in the Lancashire dialect by the foremost exponent of the form. A printer by training, Edwin Waugh left his trade for secretarial work and began his literary career in 1852. His first dialect...

Phil Benson 1 hour 45 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 039

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include literary figures--Alice Mangold Diehl, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Arthur Hugh Clough; philosophers--Hegel,...

Michele Fry and 8 more 6 hours Short Nonfiction Collections

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Literary Collections

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Camden's Compliment to Walt Whitman

On the occasion of Walt Whitman's 70th Birthday a «Committee of Citizens» in Camden, NJ held a special commemoration in his honor. This slim collection includes a autobiographical note by Whitman and his response to...

Ed Humpal 3 hours 21 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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George Gibbs - Golden Bough

The eyes of the Légionnaire, now grown accustomed to the glow of the light, made sure that the figure had not moved, nor was aware of his silent and furtive approach. Two plans of action suggested themselves, one to...

Tony Oliva 12 hours 20 minutes

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Short Stories

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Cyrus Adler - Told in the Coffee House

In the course of a number of visits to Constantinople, I became much interested in the tales that are told in the coffee houses. These are usually little more than rooms, with walls made of small panes of glass. The...

Crln Yldz Ksr 3 hours 47 minutes

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Poetry

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Poems of Sentiment

This is a volume of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This time, the topic is «Sentiment». — Summary by Carolin

Newgatenovelist and 14 more 2 hours 7 minutes

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Poetry

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Julia Caroline Dorr - Afternoon Songs

This is a volume of poems by Julia Caroline Dorr, part 5 of her collected poems. — Summary by Carolin

Domenica Campbell and 12 more 2 hours 7 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Joseph Hergesheimer - Java Head

Java Head is a novel of the American merchant marine at the beginning of the great clipper ship era. It is laid in Salem, when that city was still a port rich with the traffic of the East Indies; a story of choleric...

Margaret Espaillat 7 hours 51 minutes

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Essays

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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature (version 2)

First published anonymously in 1836, Nature marks the beginning both of Emerson’s literary career and the Transcendentalist movement. Asking why his generation “should not also enjoy an original relation to the...

Jesse Zuba 1 hour 47 minutes

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Life Sciences

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Louis Compton Miall - History of Biology

A history of biology from ancient times to Darwin and Pasteur by Louis Compton Miall, Professor of Biology, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fullerian Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy at the University of...

J. M. Smallheer 3 hours 59 minutes

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Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches

*Non-fiction

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Cotton Mather - Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches

Here are first hand accounts, published in 1692, of the infamous «Salem Witch Trials». In addition to Mather's interpretation of the Book of Revelations (which he calls «God's last letter to the people of earth»),...

Michele Fry and 9 more 9 hours 1 minute

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Exploration

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Walter Dwight Wilcox - Camping in the Canadian Rockies

An Account of Camp Life in the Wilder Parts of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Together with a Description of the Region About Banff, Lake Louise and Glacier, and a Sketch of the Early Explorations. — Summary by the...

Larry Wilson and 5 more 6 hours 58 minutes

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