Anna Simon

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Leo Tolstoy - Cossacks

The Cossacks (1863) is an unfinished novel which describes the Cossack life and people through a story of Dmitri Olenin, a Russian aristocrat in love with a Cossack girl. This text was acclaimed by Ivan Bunin as one...

ajmacbeth and 4 more 6 hours 49 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Arnold Bennett - Grand Babylon Hotel

Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi-millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurous hotel in London, as a whim — and then finds out there are strange things going on — a German prince is supposed to arrive...

Anna Simon 6 hours 44 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Herbert George Jenkins - Patricia Brent, spinster

A romantic comedy, written in 1918, but with a modern feel to it. Patricia Brent one day overhears two fellow-boarders pitying her because she «never has a nice young man to take her out». In a thoughtless moment of...

Anna Simon 6 hours 44 minutes

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Lucy Madox Rossetti - Mrs. Shelley

«I have to thank all the previous students of Shelley as poet and man--not last nor least among whom is my husband--for their loving and truthful research on all the subjects surrounding the life of Mrs.Shelley.»...

Amy Gramour and 3 more 6 hours 43 minutes

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Immanuel Kant - Critique of Practical Reason

The Critique of Practical Reason ( Kritik der praktischen Vernunft ) is the second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques, first published in 1788. It follows on from his Critique of Pure Reason and deals with his...

Sibella Denton and 9 more 6 hours 43 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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John Galsworthy - Complete Essays of John Galsworthy

This is a collection of essays by John Galsworthy. A multitude of subjects is covered, but the essays are connected by an artistic spirit, and they are written much more like short stories than in the classical style...

Pamela Nagami and 15 more 6 hours 41 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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William Lyon Phelps - Essays on Modern Novelists

A collection of essays on 19th century novelists, both famous ones and those largely forgotten now. Among the writers presented most wrote in English, but three foreign authors are also discussed. Phelps taught a...

Anna Simon and 4 more 6 hours 38 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Louis Napoleon Parker - Pomander Walk

Pomander Walk is a unique street in London, and in this humorous novel we meet the unusual residents. It was originally produced as a stage play and includes lively dialog. — Summary by Lynne Thompson

Lynne T and 2 more 6 hours 36 minutes

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Paul Ehrlich - Histology of the Blood

This is a textbook on the science of blood and bloodwork by (1908) Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Paul Ehrlich. Should appeal to hematologists, phlebotomists, and just plain folks interested in how our bodies work. (Summary...

Availle and 5 more 6 hours 27 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Herbert George Jenkins - Malcolm Sage, detective

A collection of short stories that chronicles the first year of the Malcolm Sage Detective Bureau.

Anna Simon 6 hours 24 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Leonard Merrick - Position of Peggy Harper

Novel set in the shabby world of British (third-rate) theaters circa 1900. Christopher Tatham tries to survive by going from bit part to bit part, and by his uncle's charity, while hoping for a leading-man role. He...

Anna Simon 6 hours 22 minutes

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Letters

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Dorothy Osborne - Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne

A lively, interesting and important collection of 17th century love-letters written by an English lady, against the background of the Civil War and the Restoration [summary by hefyd] After refusing a long string...

Rhonda Federman and 7 more 6 hours 17 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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