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Memoirs

937

Harold Fielding Hall - Soul of a People

In The Soul of a People, Englishman H. Fielding explores the beliefs of the Burmese people. He offers an understandable, and yet thorough, explanation of Buddhism, and illustrates the many ways the people of Burma...

Carol Fullerton-Samsel and 7 more 8 hours 54 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

794

Sarah Orne Jewett - Country Doctor

A Country Doctor is a fiction novel by American author Sarah Orne Jewett. The book, which was first published in 1884, was based on the relationship between Jewett and her physician father. The main character of A...

Jeannie 7 hours 26 minutes

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Other religions

837

Unknown - Dhammapada (Version 2)

— A Collection of Verses Being One of the Canonical Books of the Buddhists Dhammapada means «The path of Dharma.» The Pali word Dhamma corresponds to the Sankrit word Dharma. It is a collection of the teachings of...

Jothi Tharavant 2 hours 23 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

855

Henri Murger - Bohemians of the Latin Quarter

As much as any other work of literature, Henri Murger’s 1851 collection of witty sketches Scènes de la vie de bohème shaped the later romanticized image of the bohemian artist: independent, insouciant, exuberantly...

Expatriate 9 hours 59 minutes

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*Non-fiction

1.4K

Robert Kemp Philp - Enquire Within Upon Everything

Enquire Within Upon Everything was a book of how to do things in domestic life It was first published in 1856 by Houlston and Sons of Paternoster Square in London. Robert Kemp Philp. It was then continuously reprinted...

Susan Morin and 15 more 33 hours 20 minutes

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*Non-fiction

1.1K

Niccolò Machiavelli - Prince (Version 4)

This book is a five hundred year old manual for how to run a kingdom or principality. Written in 1513 but not published until 1532, «The Prince» generated controversy even before it got into print. Unlike the many...

Clive Catterall 3 hours 16 minutes

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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 4)

Crime & Mystery Fiction

1K

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 4)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 12 short stories that were originally illustrated by Sidney Paget. These are the first set of short stories that were published and followed the publishing of his...

David Clarke 10 hours 56 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

862

Herbert George Jenkins - Rain-Girl

Richard Beresford has recently returned from the WW-I trenches. He feels he can't go back to his old life in the Foreign Office. Instead, he sells all his possessions (except his books), and sets off on a tramp...

Anna Simon 7 hours 5 minutes

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Family Life

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Robert Kemp Philp - Reason Why

This collection of useful information on «Common Things» is put in the interesting form of «Why and Because,» and comprehends a familiar explanation of many subjects which occupy a large space in the philosophy of...

Anusha Iyer and 17 more 14 hours 59 minutes

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Family Life

1K

William Ruschenberger - Elements of Mammalogy

The Elements of Mammalogy is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This succinct little textbook from 1845 presents an introduction to mammalogy. The...

laurencetrask and 9 more 5 hours 53 minutes

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Literary Fiction

775

May Sinclair - Two Sides of a Question

Here are two gemlike novellas in one volume, written in May Sinclair’s clearest and cleverest prose and exploring the many ways in which a woman can be held captive, held back from the “intoxication of freedom.” In...

Expatriate 6 hours 56 minutes

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Action & Adventure

798

Gaylord Dubois - Barry Blake Of The Flying Fortress

Gaylord DuBois wrote juvenile literature for decades. This is a boys' adventure story about serving in the American World War II flying corps. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 5 hours 15 minutes

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