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Excursion to the Lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland, August 1773

Travel & Geography

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William Hutchinson - Excursion to the Lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland, August 1773

In the summer of 1773, lawyer and antiquarian William Hutchinson set out from his home in County Durham on a tour of the English Lake District. Accompanied by his brother, George Allan, he travelled by horseback from...

Phil Benson 2 hours 26 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Walter Pater - Marius the Epicurean, Volume 2

The conclusion of Pater's historico-philosophical novel about a young Roman nobleman's search for purpose and meaning. Set in the time of Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, the book traces its title character's...

DrPGould 5 hours 20 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Lily A. Long - Hemlock Avenue Mystery

«The Hemlock Avenue Mystery» is one of a series of mysteries written by Lily Augusta Long using the pseudonym Roman Doubleday. A lawyer is accused of killing a rival lawyer, both having battled in court on...

Roger Melin 6 hours 54 minutes

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General Fiction

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Voltaire - Candide (version 3)

Ever since 1759, when Voltaire wrote «Candide» in ridicule of the notion that this is the best of all possible worlds, this world has been a gayer place for readers. Voltaire wrote it in three days, and five or six...

John Van Stan 4 hours 33 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Mary Webb - Precious Bane

Published in 1924, Precious Bane is a novel by Mary Webb (1881 — 1927) which touches on ambition, prejudice and hatred but also on the power of love. Prue Sarn is a farm girl in rural Shropshire during the period of...

NoelBadrian 11 hours 27 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Mary Webb - Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing

Mary Webb was a novelist and poet and two of her novels «Gone to Earth» and «Precious Bane» have been successfully adapted for film and television. She was passionate about nature and particularly the Shropshire...

NoelBadrian 3 hours

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Single author

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Mary Coleridge - Poems

Mary Coleridge was a novelist, essayist and biographer. She was also a talented poet, and her posthumously published verses are variously meditative, joyous, gothic, wistful and devotional. (Newgatenovelist)

Newgatenovelist 4 hours 1 minute

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History

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John Lord - Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10: European Leaders

Continuing the series with European Leaders, Dr. Lord discusses William IV, Sir Robert Peel, Cavour, Czar Nicholas, Louis Napoleon, Prince Bismarck, William Ewart Gladstone. (Summary by KHand)

KHand 7 hours 31 minutes

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Nature

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Birds and Nature, Vol. XI, No 3, March 1902

«Birds and Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes and factual descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with...

Larry Wilson and 8 more 2 hours 10 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Published 1900 onward

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Eden Phillpotts - Human Boy

This collection of eleven short stories, both humorous and touching, about English school boys was published in 1900. The book was quite popular in its time. The author wrote two follow-up books: The Human Boy Again...

David Wales 4 hours 20 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Gerald Breckenridge - Radio Boys on the Mexican Border

When Bob and Frank get in touch with their friend Jack in New Mexico via radio telephony, a desperate cry for help sends the Radio Boys on an adventure on the Mexican Border. — Summary by Chris Thompson

Christopher Thompson 4 hours 17 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Charles S. Brooks - At The Sign of The Greedy Pig

«Sometimes, in a mood of Spanish castles, there flits across my fancy the vision of an ancient city on a hill-top, with lofty battlements thrust upward from the rock and towers that stand on tip-toe…. Our stage is the...

1 hour 52 minutes

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