Science Fiction
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
A student discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates the monster Frankenstein. Rejected by society, Frankenstein vows revenge on his creator. (Summary written by...
8 hours 16 minutes
*Non-fiction
571
Mary Harris Jones - Autobiography of Mother Jones
Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones) was a legendary labor organizer. She was a founding member of the International Workers of the World (the IWW, or the Wobblies), and was active in the United Mine Workers and the...
5 hours 39 minutes
Erotica
574
John Cleland - Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749) was the first widely-read English novel in the genre “Erotica.” It was written by John Cleland as he was serving hard time at a debtor’s prison in London. Over the...
9 hours 27 minutes
*Non-fiction
486
W. E. Hutchinson - Byways Around San Francisco Bay
California, the land of sunshine and roses, with its genial climate, its skies as blue as the far-famed skies of Venice, and its pure, life-giving air, invites the lover of nature to take long tramps over hill and...
2 hours 5 minutes
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