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Biography & Autobiography

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Peter Hempson Ditchfield - Books Fatal to Their Authors

This is a collection of stories of authors who have lost their fortunes and sometimes their lives after writing a book. The liberty of a person's conscience was unknown in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Why...

Anna Simon and 6 more 5 hours 44 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

478

Nikola Tesla - My Inventions and Other Works

Between February and October 1919, Nikola Tesla submitted many articles to the magazine Electrical Experimenter. The most famous of these works is a six part series titled My Inventions , which is an autobiographical...

Kane Mercer and 6 more 5 hours 44 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

505

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 030

Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include botany, dreams, farming, history, literature, nature, and religion. (summary by Sue Anderson)

Rachel Gatwood and 13 more 5 hours 41 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Nature's Miracles Volume 2: Energy and Vibration

Science

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Elisha Gray - Nature's Miracles Volume 2: Energy and Vibration

Elisha Gray was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois and is...

Michael Packard and 16 more 5 hours 41 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

434

Helena Swanwick - Future of the Women's Movement

«There may seem to be a disappointing lack of prophesy in a book avowedly dealing with the future; but since I believe the women’s movement to be a seeking for knowledge and good, to show what is reasonable and good...

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Travel & Geography

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Thomas Gaskell Allen - Across Asia on a Bicycle

In 1890, two Americans newly graduated from college set out to travel around the world on a then-new invention, the modern bicycle. In 1893 they returned, have covered over 15,000 miles, at that time the «longest...

pyfeman43 and 8 more 5 hours 40 minutes

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Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion

Crafts & Hobbies

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Frederick Milnes Edge - Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion

Paul Morphy, born in New Orleans in 1837, was considered the greatest chess player of his era. He was a child prodigy who learned playing chess simply by watching family members play, and when he was only 9 years old,...

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

480

Sabine Baring-Gould - Curious Myths of the Middle Ages

This volume is an example of Sabine Baring-Gould's extensive research into the middle ages. This volume of 12 curiosities was one of Baring-Gould's most successful publications. (Summary by Carolin)

TriciaG and 8 more 5 hours 38 minutes

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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 02 No. 3-5

Travel & Geography

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 02 No. 3-5

National Geographic Magazine Volume 2 Number 3: The Arctic Cruise of the U.S.S. Thetis in the Summer and Autumn of 1889. The Law of Storms, considered with special reference to the North Atlantic. The...

ashleighjane and 7 more 5 hours 38 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

Medical

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W. G. Aitchison Robertson - Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

A 1922 source-book for British criminal pathologists, this will be of particular interest to fans of popular police forensics television shows, films, and murder mysteries.(Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times and 10 more 5 hours 35 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

491

Lafcadio Hearn - Exotics and Retrospectives

Lafcadio Hearn, born 1850 in Greece, went to Japan when he was 40 years old and became a Japanese citizen only 6 years later. His writings about Japan from the beginning of the Meiji era, when the country was just...

William Gavula and 8 more 5 hours 32 minutes

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Technology & Engineering

440

Sir Charles Bright - Story of the Atlantic Cable

The electric telegraph, together with the railway-train and the steamship, constituted the three most conspicuous features of late 19th century civilization. Indeed, it may be truly said that the harnessing...

Maria Kasper and 7 more 5 hours 30 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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