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Helen Keller - World I Live In

The World I Live In by Helen Keller is a collection of essays that poignantly tells of her impressions of the world, through her sense of touch, smell, her imagination and dreams. My hand is to me what your...

Laura Caldwell 2 hours 49 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Christopher Morley - Parnassus on Wheels

Parnassus on Wheels is about a fictional traveling book-selling business. The original owner of the business, Roger Mifflin, sells it to 39-year-old Helen McGill, who is tired of taking care of her ailing older...

Dawn Larsen 3 hours 48 minutes

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Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism

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A. Alpheus - Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism

Written in 1903, just sixty years after the word 'hypnotism' was coined, this book explores the contemporary understanding of the nature, uses and dangers of the technique. Hypnotism has been practiced for many...

Stuart Bell and 6 more 3 hours 48 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Lew Wallace - Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Ben-Hur is a story of two very different heroes. Judah Ben-Hur, a prince of Jerusalem, is involved in an accident to the Roman procurator which is taken to be intentional. He is seized and sent to the fleet as a...

Mark F. Smith 23 hours 22 minutes

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History Of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Vol. 1

Antiquity

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Gaston Maspero - History Of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Vol. 1

History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria is the masterwork of one of the fathers of modern egyptology. This work, in twelve volumes, was translated from the French original, “Histoire ancienne des...

Sibella Denton 7 hours 16 minutes

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Dramatic Readings

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Jane Austen - Mansfield Park (dramatic reading)

Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's 1814 novel focusing on Fanny Price, the daughter of a poor Portsmouth family, who is taken to live with her aunt and uncle Bertram's family on their estate at the age of ten. Surrounded...

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4

In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in...

Patti Cunningham and 14 more 11 hours 21 minutes Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

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Mamie Dickens - My Father As I Recall Him

«If, in these pages, written in remembrance of my father, I should tell you, my dear friends, nothing new of him, I can, at least, promise you that what I shall tell will be told faithfully, if simply, and perhaps...

Laura Caldwell and 5 more 2 hours 7 minutes

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General Fiction

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Eleanor M. Ingram - Thing from the Lake

To get away from city life periodically, New Yorker Roger Locke purchases an abandoned farm house in rural Connecticut, and with the assistance of his cousin Phillida and her beau Ethan Vere, he sets about fixing up...

Roger Melin 7 hours 35 minutes

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Antiquity

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Andrew Lang - Short History of Scotland

A Short History of Scotland is a consise introduction to the history of Scotland from Roman times to the last Jacobite rebellion, written by the author of a much longer Scottish history. (Summary by Sibella Denton.)

Sibella Denton 8 hours 25 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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E.D.E.N. Southworth - Hidden Hand

«If you will listen to this book, you will meet a cast of unforgettable characters, as different from one another as the sun and moon. But they have one thing in common — all of them hide many, many secrets. The plot...

Bridget Gaige 16 hours 33 minutes

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Romance

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Ivan Turgenev - First Love

The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The «boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her» story is universal but not, I think, banal — despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very...

Martin Geeson 3 hours 3 minutes

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