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Essays & Short Works

435

Alice Meynell - Children

Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing...

Jim Locke and 5 more 1 hour 56 minutes

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Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 10, Jan. 6, 1880

General

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Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 10, Jan. 6, 1880

Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, short stories, fiction and nonfiction, anecdotes, jokes, artwork, craft...

BettyB and 6 more 1 hour 54 minutes Harper's Young People

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Faery Tales from Hans Christian Andersen

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Hans Christian Andersen - Faery Tales from Hans Christian Andersen

This is a 1910 edition of the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. This volume is nicely mixed, containing both the most famous tales as well as some which are not quite as well-known. The translation is adapted...

Michael S Milne and 24 more 15 hours 57 minutes

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Poetry

432

Thomas Fleming Day - Songs of Sea and Sail

Thomas Fleming Day was an American sailboat designer and sailboat racer. He was the founding editor of Rudder, a monthly magazine about boats, and himself the first to win the annual New York to Bermuda race. Not so...

Eva Davis and 8 more 1 hour 41 minutes

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Short Stories

444

Joseph Dunn - Glories of Ireland

A collection of essays on Ireland compiled by Joseph Dunn and PJ Lennox. As stated in the Preface to the books "...we have been forced to the conclusion that the performances of the Irish race in many fields of...

April6090 and 13 more 16 hours 1 minute

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Essays & Short Works

432

George William Curtis - From the Easy Chair Vol. 1

George William Curtis was a writer and public speaker. He was editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the American Republican party, and served Ulysses S. Grant; although he split from the party in the...

Matthew Squaire and 11 more 4 hours 19 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Leon Ray Livingston - Trail of the Tramp

This book, written by the famous hobo and author, Leon Ray Livingston aka A-No. 1, is built on his own experiences on the road. The first chapter of the book sets up a framing narrative, where Canada Joe promises to...

Kristin Lewis and 3 more 4 hours 4 minutes

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Single author

438

Walter Crane - Renascence: A Book of Verse

Walter Crane is better known as an artist and illustrator of children’s books. His illustrations defined a whole genre which influenced the field for many years. He was also involved in various socialist causes and...

Larry Wilson and 8 more 2 hours 40 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

435

Benjamin Griffith Brawley - Women of Achievement

This volume, published in 1919 by the American Women's Baptist Home Mission Society, opens with an introduction spelling out the important work done by African American women. It speaks both to the «invisible work» of...

BettyB and 1 more 1 hour 38 minutes

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Nature

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Birds and All Nature, Vol. VII, No 4, April 1900

«Birds and All Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color...

Larry Wilson and 11 more 2 hours 21 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Nature & Animal Fiction

503

Ernest Thompson Seton - Animal Heroes

A hero is an individual of unusual gifts and achievements. Whether it be man or animal, this definition applies; and it is the histories of such that appeal to the imagination and to the hearts of those who hear them....

Ginny Blankenship and 7 more 6 hours 16 minutes

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Literary Collections

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Ontario Readers: Fourth Book

A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry and Prose by well known authors of the time. — Summary by David Lawrence

David Lawrence and 21 more 9 hours 36 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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