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Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (Version 2)

Essays & Short Works

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Mark Twain - Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (Version 2)

This is Mark Twain's vicious and amusing review of Fenimore Cooper's literary art. It is still read widely in academic circles. Twain's essay, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses (often spelled «Offences») (1895),...

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Essays & Short Works

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Orville Wright - Early History of the Airplane

The Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, on 17th December 1903. They were not the first to build and fly aircraft, but they invented the...

Availle 1 hour 33 minutes

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Bertrand Russell - Proposed Roads to Freedom

Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872 – 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, political activist and Nobel laureate. He led the British «revolt against idealism» in the early 1900s and is...

Todd Garrison and 4 more 5 hours 51 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations, Book 5

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist Adam Smith, published on March 9, 1776 during the Scottish Enlightenment. It is a clearly written account of...

Stephen Escalera 10 hours 51 minutes The Wealth of Nations

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Olive Schreiner - Story of an African Farm

The novel details the lives of three characters, first as children and then as adults — Waldo, Em and Lyndall — who live on a farm in the Karoo region of South Africa. The story is set in the middle- to late...

SallyMc 10 hours 26 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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John Muir - Travels in Alaska

In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded interest, for they enabled him to verify his theories of glacial action. Again and again he returned to this...

Esther and 9 more 9 hours 6 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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May Kellogg Sullivan - Woman Who Went to Alaska

Alaska has only been a state since 1959, and the breathtaking terrain remains mostly unspoiled and natural. In modern times, many of us have had the pleasure of visiting Alaska via a luxurious cruise ship, where we...

Karen Commins 10 hours 29 minutes

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General Fiction

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John Neihardt - Song of Hugh Glass

This poem tells a story that begins in 1823 — just after the Leavenworth campaign against the Arikara Indians — and follows an expedition of Major Andrew Henry during a series of arduous journeys over the...

Nathan 2 hours 21 minutes

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Christianity - Biographies

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Norman F. Langford - King Nobody Wanted

In a very real and interesting way, The King Nobody Wanted tells the story of Jesus. Where the actual words of the Bible are used, they are from the King James Version. But the greater part of the story is told in...

Dawn Larsen 3 hours 30 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Anonymous - Sketches Of The Fair Sex

Sketches of the fair sex, in all parts of the world. To which are added rules for determining the precise figure, the degree of beauty, the habits, and the age of women, notwithstanding the aids and disguise of dress....

Colman Shew and 14 more 6 hours 6 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Carley Dawson - Mr. Wicker's Window (Version 2)

When Christopher Mason walked into Mr. Wicker's antique shop, he had no idea he would soon be embarking on a marvellous journey to China to find a wonderful tree made of jewels. He had no idea that Mr. Wicker was a...

Arthur Piantadosi 5 hours 49 minutes

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General Fiction

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Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors

A 1908 NaNoWriMo forerunner, told in twelve chapters, each with a different author. The basic plot was to show how an engagement or marriage would affect and be affected by an entire family. The project became...

Tom Lennon and 11 more 7 hours 32 minutes

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