Anna Simon

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 009

A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in these collections are independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass...

Philippa and 12 more 6 hours 11 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 11: 1812

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir”) is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of...

Ernst Pattynama and 12 more 6 hours 10 minutes War and Peace (Maude Translation Books 1-17)

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Single Author Collections

500

Saki - Chronicles of Clovis

This is the third collection of short stories by Saki, following on from “Reginald” and “Reginald in Russia”. Although some of the stories have characters that do not appear elsewhere in the collection, many of them...

Anna Simon and 14 more 6 hours 9 minutes

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Modern

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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Conduct of Life

This is the best of Emerson's later works, qualifying his earlier popular essays, series one and two, with the heavier hand of experience. The Conduct of Life ostensibly is a set of essays about how to live life, but...

Daniel Christopher June and 1 more 6 hours 7 minutes

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Cooking

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Anonymous - American Housewife

This cookbook and reference guide leads the American Housewife through how to make everything from Meat to Common Drinks, as well as helpful tips and tricks for any housewife! Also included in this fine text are...

Jud Niven and 12 more 5 hours 57 minutes

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General Fiction

431

Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Clara Vaughan, Vol I.

CLARA VAUGHAN, the young heroine, narrator, and namesake for R. D. Blackmore’s early detective novel, is determined to solve the mystery of her father’s murder—a crime that occurred when she was only 10 years of age....

Lynne T and 7 more 5 hours 50 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Peter Hempson Ditchfield - Books Fatal to Their Authors

This is a collection of stories of authors who have lost their fortunes and sometimes their lives after writing a book. The liberty of a person's conscience was unknown in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Why...

Anna Simon and 6 more 5 hours 44 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 030

Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include botany, dreams, farming, history, literature, nature, and religion. (summary by Sue Anderson)

Rachel Gatwood and 13 more 5 hours 41 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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John Charles Dent - Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales

John Charles Dent, the author of the following remarkable stories, was born in Kendal, Westmorland, England, in 1841. His parents emigrated to Canada shortly after that event, bringing with them, of course, the youth...

Moira Fogarty and 9 more 5 hours 27 minutes

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War & Military

492

Pierre Loti - War

Pierre Loti [Julien Viaud] (1850-1923) was a French naval officer and novelist. The present book is one of his few works of non-fiction, a small collection of letters and diary entries that describe his views and...

Becky Cook and 6 more 5 hours 23 minutes

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Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment

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Élisabeth Celnart - Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment

A mid-nineteenth century book of etiquette. (Summary by Libby Gohn)

Lyn Silva and 16 more 5 hours 23 minutes

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General Fiction

479

Mildred Aldrich - Told in a French Garden

American friends begin to summer in a beautiful French country house when WWI breaks out. They decide not to evacuate as the war encroaches. Their interactions are interwoven by the stories that they take turns...

Amy Gramour and 6 more 5 hours 20 minutes

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New

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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