Anna Simon

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Piloting Directions for the Gulf of Finland

Travel & Geography

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John William Norie - Piloting Directions for the Gulf of Finland

Norie's series of piloting and sailing directions was something of a staple in the chart-room of 19th century British (and other) merchant vessels. The description of landmarks and ports, as well as the rules and...

Pentti Hirvonen and 3 more 2 hours 10 minutes

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Health & Fitness

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Robert Burton - Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 2

The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burton applies his large and varied learning in the scholastic manner to the...

MorganScorpion and 5 more 12 hours 58 minutes The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

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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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*Non-fiction

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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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*Non-fiction

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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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War and Peace, Book 16: First Epilogue 1813-1820

Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 16: First Epilogue 1813-1820

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...

Vilayvanh and 6 more 2 hours 31 minutes War and Peace (Maude Translation Books 1-17)

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Action & Adventure Fiction

467

Vasco de Lobeira - Amadis of Gaul

Amadis of Gaul (Amadís de Gaula, in Spanish) was not the first, but certainly one of the best known knight-errantry tales of the 16th century. Not only is its authorship doubtful, but even the language in which it was...

Leni and 14 more 29 hours 18 minutes

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Hilda Wade, A Woman With Tenacity of Purpose

Detective Fiction

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Grant Allen - Hilda Wade, A Woman With Tenacity of Purpose

«In this early detective novel, the detective is Hilda Wade. She is a very capable nurse, but there is something mysterious about her from the moment she arrives at the hospital. Upon meeting her, Dr. Hubert...

Anna Simon and 1 more 10 hours 13 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

519

Jerome K. Jerome - Idle Ideas in 1905

Back in 1905 Jerome K. Jerome shared his thoughts on a variety of subjects, including «Should Women Be Beautiful?», «Should Soldiers Be Polite?» and «Is The American Husband Made Entirely Of Stained Glass?». Each...

StephenC and 10 more 5 hours 19 minutes

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Early Modern

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Benedict de Spinoza - Ethics

The Ethics is a philosophical book written by Baruch Spinoza. It was written in Latin. Although it was published posthumously in 1677, it is his most famous work, and is considered his magnum opus. In The Ethics,...

Leni and 18 more 11 hours 55 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

547

Jules Verne - Topsy-Turvy

Topsy Turvy is a translation of Sans dessus dessous (1889). This anonymous translation was first published by J. G. Ogilvie (New York, 1890). We meet our old friends Barbicane and J.T. Maston from “Earth to the Moon”...

Anna Simon and 12 more 4 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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