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Fanny Dickerson Bergen - Current Superstitions

No matter how enlightened, chances are you've been raised around superstitious lore of one kind or another. Fanny Dickerson Bergen was one of the original researchers of North American oral traditions relating to...

Denny Sayers and 8 more 4 hours 36 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Carl Sandburg - Rootabaga Stories

Carl Sandburg is beloved by generations of children for his Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons (which is not in the public domain), a series of whimsical, sometimes melancholy stories he originally created...

Betsie Bush 3 hours 13 minutes

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Myrtle Reed - How to Cook Fish

Olive Green is the pseudonym for the prolific late 19th Century/early 20th Century author, Myrtle Reed. She wrote over thirty-three books and hundreds of magazine articles and pamphlets during her short lifetime. Ms....

Denny Sayers and 18 more 10 hours 2 minutes

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General Fiction

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Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis (in German, Die Verwandlung, «The Transformation») is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915, and arguably the most famous of his works along with the longer works The Trial and The...

David Barnes 2 hours 34 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Golden Road

In the sequal to The Story Girl Sara Stanley returns to join the King children in publishing their own local magazine to entertain the town of Carlisle.

JemmaBlythe and 9 more 7 hours 40 minutes

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Short Stories

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Leo Tolstoy - What Men Live By and Other Tales

Although Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a wealthy landowner, in his later life he had what was considered a “religious awakening.” This experience went on to inform his writing and his lifestyle in profound ways. His...

David Barnes and 1 more 2 hours 10 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Anthony Hope - Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda tells the story of Rudolf Rassendyll, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania, a country not a thousand miles from Bavaria. There, by reason of his resemblance to the King of Ruritania...

Andy Minter 5 hours 42 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Ernest Bramah - Four Max Carrados Detective Stories

Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his 'Kai Lung' books — Dorothy L Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifetime however he was equally well known for his detective stories. Since...

Andy Minter 3 hours 38 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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American Standard Version - Bible (ASV) 18: Job

The Book of Job (American Standard Version) is presented in forty-two chapters and is one of the Old Testament Wisdom Books. The narrative chronicles the trials of Job as he is brought low from a comfortable and...

Robert Garrison 2 hours 27 minutes

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Joseph Devlin - How to Speak and Write Correctly

This is a 1910 guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not «properly») create sentences, use figures of speech, write letters, and more, all while choosing the right words and doing it with...

Andrew Lebrun and 10 more 5 hours 42 minutes

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Nellie Bly - Ten Days in a Madhouse

In 1887 Nellie Bly, one of the first female newspaper writers, and a young reporter who would soon go on to make a career for herself as an investigative journalist and “stunt” reporter, had herself committed to the...

Alys AtteWater 2 hours 41 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, shame, redemption and patriotism. The plot centers on the years leading...

Michael Sirois and 19 more 14 hours 59 minutes

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