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Detective Fiction

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Mary Roberts Rinehart - Dangerous Days

Dangerous Days opens in a still neutral America, though within a year the country will have joined the European alliance against the Central Powers in the first world war. Clayton Spencer, a successful industrialist...

Nicholas Clifford 12 hours 22 minutes

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Plays

755

Frank Wedekind - Pandora's Box

Pandora's Box (1904) (Die Büchse der Pandora) is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the second part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays (the first is Earth Spirit [1895]), both of which depict a...

2 hours 14 minutes

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Plays

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Frank Wedekind - Earth Spirit

Earth Spirit (1895) (Erdgeist) is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the first part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays (the second is Pandora's Box [1904]), both of which depict a society «riven by...

2 hours 17 minutes

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Children's Fiction

710

H. H. Bashford - Half-Past Bedtime

Ah, the wonderful adventures of Marian after she meets the strange Mr. Jugg. «And who are you, Mr Jugg?» she inquired. «I'm the King of the Bumpies,» he replied. When Marian was puzzled there came a little straight...

Phil Chenevert 4 hours 25 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

874

Anna Katharine Green - Mystery of the Hasty Arrow

It is the noon hour at a museum in New York City. The date: May 23, 1913. The weekday, attendance is light; the attendees are scattered between two floors. Suddenly a cry rings out from the second floor. Scrambling to...

Richard Kilmer 10 hours 49 minutes

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Detective Fiction

740

Anna Katharine Green - Circular Study

In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a “strange” crime. He soon finds that the adjective is correct, for in a quiet brownstone house in...

Jacquerie 6 hours 15 minutes

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Children's Fiction

962

Louisa May Alcott - Spinning-Wheel Stories

A group of stories-within-a-story, told in the classic Louisa May Alcott style. «I've a little cold,» said the old lady, «and am too hoarse for talking, my dears; but Aunt Elinor has looked up a parcel of old...

Alex Lau and 8 more 6 hours 59 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 027

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers and include speeches and essays on history, science, politics, nature,...

David Wales and 10 more 5 hours 52 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Itinerary of John Leland in or About the Years 1535-1543

History

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John Leland - Itinerary of John Leland in or About the Years 1535-1543

John Leland's 'Itinerary' was the product of several journeys around England and Wales undertaken between 1538 and 1543. The manuscript is made up of Leland's notebooks, which were first published in the 18th century,...

Phil Benson 2 hours 1 minute

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Memoirs

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George Dewey - Autobiography of George Dewey

Admiral George Dewey, United States Navy, is best remembered for his victory over the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War (1898). Written when Dewey was seventy-five years old and...

Delmar H Dolbier 7 hours 20 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Oscar Wilde - House Of Pomegranates

A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde once said that this collection was «intended...

Alex Lau 3 hours 26 minutes

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Plays

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Oscar Wilde - Vera; or the Nihilists

Vera; or, The Nihilists is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a melodramatic tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the story of Vera Zasulich. It was the first play that Wilde wrote. It was produced in the United...

2 hours 6 minutes

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