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How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion

Action & Adventure Fiction

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George Wilbur Peck - How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion

A series of U.S. Civil War adventures or incidents experienced and enhanced (or created) by humorist George W. Peck. Peck was at times a writer, newspaper publisher and politician. He had a wry sense of humor and...

Arnold 9 hours 12 minutes

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Travels and adventures of an orchid hunter: An account of canoe and camp life in Colombia, while collecting orchids in the northern Andes

Memoirs

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Albert Millican - Travels and adventures of an orchid hunter: An account of canoe and camp life in Colombia, while collecting orchids in the northern Andes

This is quite the adventure tale and travelog. We see cities, peoples, plants and wildlife of Columbia and the ports our intrepid 'hunter' visits on the way there and back. It is an interesting period; a canal is...

Arnold 4 hours 47 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Anthony Trollope - Bertrams

This is a massive effort, taking place in England and the Middle East, with a cast of thousands… Well, not thousands, fortunately, but certainly a great many. There are three Bertrams present: Sir Lionel, his son...

Arnold 24 hours 2 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Anthony Trollope - Old Man's Love

This was Trollope's last completed novel, and he may have acquired his sympathy for older lovers with age! A not-so-very-old man, Mr. Whittlestaff, dearly loves Mary Lawrie, the girl he provides a home for after her...

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Humorous Fiction

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Ellis Parker Butler - Perkins of Portland

Amusing tales showing the effectiveness of advertising some rather questionable products. Perkins and the narrator partner in promotions directed at a gullible and willing public. Unlike most tales of the kind, with...

Arnold 2 hours 53 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Anthony Trollope - Marion Fay

Marion Fay (1882) offers a pair of romances, each involving a match between one titled personage and one commoner. The misalliances lead to the typical strains between parental desires and romantic wishes of the...

Arnold 24 hours 6 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Ellis Parker Butler - Cheerful Smugglers

Saving for the baby's education: how can a young family be disciplined so as to regularly put money in the pig (bank)? Why, put a tariff on all items coming into the house, just like the U.S. Government does/did for...

Arnold 3 hours 11 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Thornton W. Burgess - Mother West Wind "When" Stories

Thorton Burgess gives us a collection of stories about the animals, explaining 'when' they got their peculiar traits. As usual the stories are short and delightfully written so as to be enjoyed by child or adult. Have...

Arnold and 5 more 2 hours 45 minutes

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Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics

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Walter Kellogg Towers - Masters of Space

This is the story of talking at a distance, of sending messages through space. It is the story of great men—Morse, Thomson, Bell, Marconi, and others—and how, with the aid of men like Field, Vail, Catty, Pupin, the...

Mark and 9 more 5 hours 55 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Dark Night's Work

Love, murder and class commentary in Mrs Gaskell's usual brilliant style! This novel was originally serialised and published by Charles Dickens, with whom Mrs Gaskell had several disagreements. She chose to avoid...

fiddlesticks and 8 more 6 hours 35 minutes

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Gardening

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P. Agricola - New-York Gardener

A series of twelve letters from a proud father to a son who has just bought his own farm. The author instructs «my dear son» not to overlook the kitchen garden, and writes one letter for each month of the year,...

Pete Darg and 8 more 4 hours 44 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Ellis Parker Butler - Adventures of a Suburbanite

Why is the neighbor so obsessed with his car? Where can we find a good gardener? Should we have a Santa Claus at our Christmas party? Yes, this is suburbia… much the same today as it was in 1911. — Summary by Sarah...

shawnoconnor1477 and 7 more 3 hours 18 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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