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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Andrew Lang - Yellow Fairy Book

«Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's „Coloured“ Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of...

Sarah Jennings and 23 more 11 hours 23 minutes Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4

In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in...

Patti Cunningham and 14 more 11 hours 21 minutes Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

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Mathematics

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Edmond Halley - Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol 1

«The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.» (from its Mission Statement). As scientists have explored the world...

Lynne T and 17 more 11 hours 14 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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F. Anstey - In Brief Authority

Satiric comedy from 1915 about a nouveau riche British family and their nanny who get whisked off to Maerchenland ('the land of Fairy Tales') one evening in a car drawn by storks. The matron of the family, a thorough...

Anna Simon 11 hours 13 minutes

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History

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Thomas Carlyle - French Revolution Volume 1 the Bastille

The French Revolution: A History was written by the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian Thomas Carlyle. The three-volume work, first published in 1837 (with a revised edition in print by 1857), charts the...

shawnzhu and 19 more 11 hours 11 minutes

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Political Science

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John Locke - Two Treatises of Civil Government

The Two Treatises of Civil Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise is an extended attack on Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha , which argued for...

Philippa and 6 more 11 hours 4 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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Walt Whitman - Specimen Days

Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, espeically his experience serving as a nurse during the Civil War and travelling around America.

Sue Anderson and 12 more 11 hours 4 minutes

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Antiquity

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus - Tacitus' Histories

The Histories was written between 110 and 100 B.C. It covered the Year of Four Emperors following the downfall of Nero, the rise of Vespasian, and the rule of the Flavian Dynasty up to the death of Domitian....

Andrew Coleman and 7 more 11 hours 2 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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R. Austin Freeman - Silent Witness

In this detective novel, the young doctor Humphrey Jardine stumbles upon a corpse during a walk near Hampstead Heath in the middle of the night. However, when he returns to the spot with a police officer, the corpse...

Anna Simon 10 hours 51 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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G. A. Henty - True to the Old Flag

This book tells the story of the American war of Independence from the side of the British. The old flag mentioned in the title is the flag of England. This is a book for young readers, but — as a good book should be...

Chela and 6 more 10 hours 49 minutes

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Romance

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Edward P. Roe - He Fell in Love with His Wife

James desperately needs someone to help him keep his farm going, but has failure after colossal failure finding a good housekeeper. Alida marries a man only to find out he's already married. She's so undone when she...

Lee Smalley and 8 more 10 hours 34 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Frank L. Packard - Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale

In the previous book of adventures , we met Jimmie Dale, a wealthy playboy by day, who at night put on a disguise and became The Gray Seal, a daredevil entering businesses or homes and cracking safes, always leaving...

Anna Simon 10 hours 31 minutes Jimmie Dale

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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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