Amelia Chesley

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Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio, volume 1

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Songling Pu - Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio, volume 1

«Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio» (or «Strange Tales of Liaozhai») is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical...

Availle and 19 more 12 hours 6 minutes

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Christianity - Other

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Jeremy Taylor - Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying

Written by a Church of England clergyman in the time of Cromwell, this work is praised for both its style and content. Taylor's work was much admired by John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, for its devotional...

KHand and 13 more 10 hours 22 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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L. Frank Baum - Phoebe Daring

A headstrong female detective strives to clear a good man's name in this children's mystery by Oz author L. Frank Baum. Summary by Miriam Esther Goldman

Miriam Esther Goldman and 9 more 6 hours 14 minutes

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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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William Butler Yeats - Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

This is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats collected them from around the Western part of Ireland and translated them near the end of the 1800s. — Summary by Michele Eaton

Juliet Brown and 17 more 11 hours 20 minutes

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Well at the World's End, Book 2: The Road Unto Trouble

Fantasy Fiction

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William Morris - Well at the World's End, Book 2: The Road Unto Trouble

In The Well at the World's End, Ralph of Upmeads, youngest son of the King of Upmeads, leaves home (where nothing exciting ever happens) without permission and sets out looking for adventure. When he hears rumors of a...

acousticwave and 11 more 7 hours 47 minutes

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British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Wirt Sikes - British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions

The British Isles, in particular Wales, are renowned for legend and folklore. The author, an American journalist working in Europe, was appointed Consul to Wales and thus began his fascination with Welsh folklore....

Lynne T and 11 more 11 hours 28 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman - With Her in Ourland

Third in the trilogy of the feminist classics, after Moving the Mountain and Herland . It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodical The Forerunner . In Herland , three American young men discover a...

Amelia Chesley and 4 more 5 hours 53 minutes

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Robert Kemp Philp - Enquire Within Upon Everything

Enquire Within Upon Everything was a book of how to do things in domestic life It was first published in 1856 by Houlston and Sons of Paternoster Square in London. Robert Kemp Philp. It was then continuously reprinted...

Susan Morin and 15 more 33 hours 20 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Insomnia Collection Vol. 004

Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. However, it is hoped that at least one from the range of topics here presented...

TriciaG and 16 more 17 hours 12 minutes

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Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Ulysses S. Grant

Literary Collections

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Ulysses S. Grant - Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Ulysses S. Grant

The Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents is an eleven-volume series of tomes comprising of proclamations, special messages, and inaugurations from several presidents throughout United States...

Jim Clevenger and 14 more 26 hours 29 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Louisa May Alcott - Little Women (version 4)

Little Women is the classic story of the March family, which consists of Mr. and Mrs. March and their four girls–Practical, yet fashion conscious, Meg, who longs for the nice things they used to have. Rambunctious,...

Jennifer Stearns and 20 more 18 hours 27 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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