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Christianity - Other

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J. C. Ryle - Knots Untied

Being Plain Statements on Disputed Points in Religion, from the Standpoint of an Evangelical Churchman. The volume now in the reader's hands requires a few words of explanation. It contains nineteen papers on...

MaryAnn 16 hours 25 minutes

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Black Beauty (version 3 Dramatic Reading)

Dramatic Readings

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Anna Sewell - Black Beauty (version 3 Dramatic Reading)

Black Beauty is a fictional autobiographical memoir told by a horse, who recounts many tales, both of cruelty and kindness. The title page of the first edition states that it was «Translated from the Original Equine...

5 hours 26 minutes

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Bid For Fortune; Or, Dr Nikola's Vendetta

Detective Fiction

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Guy Boothby - Bid For Fortune; Or, Dr Nikola's Vendetta

Guy Newell Boothby (1867 – 1905) was a prolific Australian writer. He moved to London in 1894 and became most well-known for his Dr.Nikola mysteries. This book is the first in a series of five and introduces the good...

Peter John Keeble 7 hours 41 minutes

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Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians

Biography & Autobiography

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Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians

Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings may have influenced them. These short essays are part biography and part...

John Burlinson and 9 more 7 hours 55 minutes Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great

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Single author

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Adah Isaacs Menken - Infelicia

Adah Isaacs Menken's short life was full and eventful. Probably born in the American South, she travelled, wrote journalism, became famous as an actress, successfully navigated press scandals about her private life...

Newgatenovelist 2 hours 24 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Herbert Allen Giles - Chinese Sketches

Herbert Giles was in the diplomatic service in China from 1867 to 1893. His frank observations on Chinese culture and people form the basis of these short essays, published in 1876. On his retirement, he returned to...

MaryAnn 4 hours 56 minutes

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Literary Fiction

845

Dorothy Richardson - Backwater (Pilgrimage, Vol. 2)

«Backwater» is the second volume of «Pilgrimage,» a series of thirteen autobiographical novels by Dorothy Richardson considered to have pioneered the «stream of consciousness» technique of writing. In a review of the...

Expatriate 5 hours 27 minutes

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Animals

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Charles Darwin - Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals is a book by Charles Darwin, published in 1872, concerning genetically determined aspects of behaviour. It was published thirteen years after On the Origin of Species...

Gaby and 14 more 11 hours 13 minutes

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War & Military

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Randolph Silliman Bourne - Untimely Papers

This is a posthumous collection of essays by Randolph Bourne. Many originally appeared in the journal «The Seven Arts,» before the controversial end to its run. Also included is the unfinished manuscript of «The...

Ben Adams 5 hours 5 minutes

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Published before 1800

1.1K

Tobias Smollett - Adventures of Roderick Random

I am Roderick Random. This is the contemporary story of my struggle against the adversity of orphan-hood, poverty, press gangs, bloody duels, rival fortune hunters, and the challenge to be well-dressed through it...

Arthur Krolman 19 hours 9 minutes

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General Fiction

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Lewis Carroll - Phantasmagoria and other poems

This is a collection of numerous lesser known poems by Lewis Carroll, with a tendency towards entertaining nonsense verses and unusual approaches to subject matter. Some of the poems are rather meta or introspective...

Rosslyn Carlyle 1 hour 53 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Laura Lee Hope - Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge

The Bobbsey Twins are back at school after summer vacation, but Danny Rugg, the school bully, is up to mischief again--and this time he's trying to pin it onto Bert. Bert gets accused of freezing a giant snowball to...

BettyB and 5 more 3 hours 37 minutes

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