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Short Stories

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Anna Katharine Green - Thief

At a dinner party, a valuable coin is lost while being passed around among the guests to look at. One of the gentlemen insists to empty his pockets to the host to free himself of all suspicion, and the other gentlemen...

Crln Yldz Ksr 52 minutes

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Poetry

422

Theodosia Garrison - Dreamers and Other Poems

This is a volume of poetry by New Jersey poet Theodosia Garrison. Ms. Garrison was a friend of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's, and attained a high level of popularity during her life time. — Summary by Carolin

aishah143 and 8 more 1 hour 17 minutes

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Poetry

480

Algernon Charles Swinburne - Dark Month

This is a sequence of poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne. The poems were written in 1881, during the one month in which his seven year old neighbor, Herbert (Bertie) Mason was away.Swinburne describes in 31 poems his...

Larry Wilson and 4 more 50 minutes

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Poetry

462

Bliss Carman - Songs from Vagabondia

This is the famous collection «Songs from Vagabondia», a collaboration between Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey, which at once catapulted both poets to extensive fame. The poems in this volume are widely read until...

Larry Wilson and 7 more 1 hour 15 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Herbert Francis Peyser - Mendelssohn And Certain Masterworks

In the compass of the present pamphlet it is impossible to give more than a cursory survey of Mendelssohn’s happy but extraordinarily crowded life. He was only slightly less prolific a composer than such masters as...

David Wales 1 hour 29 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

444

Barry Cornwall - Petition to Time

Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall) was an English poet. Rather unknown outside Britain in his times and largely considered to be imitator of greater romantic authors, Barry Cornwall however inspired...

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 13 minutes

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Single author

427

William Roscoe - Selections from Harris's Cabinet

In the early 1800s, London publisher John Harris began producing small books for children that were designed not to instruct, but to entertain. One of these books, The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast by...

Phil Benson 1 hour 7 minutes

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Poetry

452

Archibald Lampman - Lyrics of Earth

This is a volume of nature poetry by Canadian poet Archibald Lampman. Lampman is considered one of the most distinguished poets of his time, and is still widely read today. — Summary by Carolin

Rubenwhitter and 8 more 1 hour 18 minutes

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I.W.W. - Its History, Structure, and Method

Essays & Short Works

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Vincent St. John - I.W.W. - Its History, Structure, and Method

“We must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, ‘Abolition of the wage system’” The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), members of which are commonly termed «Wobblies,» is an international labor...

P. J. Taylor 1 hour 22 minutes

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War & Military Fiction

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Richard Harding Davis - Somewhere in France

When Captain Henri Ravignac married Marie Gessler, he was mistakenly thinking she was French. But Marie is in fact German, and her command of the French language and culture makes her a perfect spy. At the first...

Crln Yldz Ksr 1 hour 2 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Herbert Francis Peyser - Hector Berlioz; A Romantic Tragedy

How much more futile is it to attempt on the minuscule scale of the following tiny, if rambling, pamphlet to touch upon even a thousandth of those achievements and unremitting conflicts which entered into the texture...

David Wales 1 hour 26 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

432

Dora Sigerson Shorter - I Am The World

Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter. She was a major figure of the Irish Literary Revival, publishing many collections...

ashleighjane and 9 more 22 minutes

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