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Historical

810

Charlotte Mary Yonge - Unknown to History

During the captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots, plots, conspiracies, and intrigue engulfed the country. Catholics were apprehensive of Protestants; Scots mistrusted the English. No one felt completely safe. Into the...

Tanica 16 hours 4 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

783

William Hope Hodgson - Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'

Eighteenth-century sailors adrift in a lifeboat encounter strange lands and weird creatures in their search for home. A creepy tale of nautical adventure. — Summary by Jason Mills

Jason Mills 4 hours 49 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

785

Algernon Blackwood - Willows (version 2)

«The Willows» is one of Algernon Blackwood's best known creepy stories. American horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. He wrote in his treatise...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 20 minutes

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Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are and Isn't That Just Like a Man!

Humor

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Irvin S. Cobb - Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are and Isn't That Just Like a Man!

This warm, affectionate duet of essays by two of the early twentieth century's most popular writers is a bit dated but still entertaining. Summary by David Wales.

David Wales and 1 more 1 hour 18 minutes

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Poetry

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John Brownlie - Hymns of the Early Church

This collection of hymns have been translated from the poetry to the Latin church, arranged in the order of the Christian year. «This volume is intended for hours of devotion, and the vast storehouse of sacred poetry...

Denise Nordell and 10 more 2 hours 30 minutes

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General Fiction

850

William John Locke - Beloved Vagabond

The vagabond, Paragot, a truly eccentric bohemian and a wandering scholar with a mysterious past, adopts a London street urchin (whom he calls Asticot) by purchasing him from his mother for half a crown. Paragot leads...

Simon Evers 8 hours 24 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

829

Alice Morse Earle - Home Life in Colonial Days

CHAPTER I HOMES OF THE COLONISTS When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable. The colonists found a...

Susan Morin 13 hours 2 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

852

E. Phillips Oppenheim - Great Secret

English gentleman Hardross Courage has a good life. He has all the money he needs, enjoys sports and hunting, manages the family estate, and in general leads a satisfying life. On a trip to London to participate in a...

Tom Weiss 7 hours 27 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

785

Norman Duncan - Christmas Eve At Swamp's End

Four selected chapters from The Measure Of A Man; A Tale of the Big Woods, by Norman Duncan. What could be more Christmasy than: Babies, especially a homeless one; a woman who loves; a man who protects; a cold night;...

David Wales 52 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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H. G. Wells - Mr. Britling Sees It Through

«Mr. Britling Sees It Through» is H. G. Wells' attempt to make sense of World War I. It begins with a lighthearted account of an American visiting England for the first time, but the outbreak of war changes...

Peter Eastman 17 hours 10 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Charles Hamilton Sorley - Army of Death

Captain Sorley was among 16 Great War poets commemorated in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner. The inscription was written by Wilfred Owen. It reads: «My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the...

Carol Box and 21 more 31 minutes

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Family Life

785

Barbara Baynton - Human Toll

Ursula (Ursie) Ewart, orphaned as a young child, is sent away from her home in the Australian bush. While Ursie was previously doted on by station hands, Boshy, Nungi,and Queeby, at her new home, in a nearby country...

Kirsty Leishman 6 hours 55 minutes

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