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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 041

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include a woman in Alaska, Cuban folklore, and hunting peccaries on the Nueces; Max Planck's Quantum Theory and...

Availle and 10 more 4 hours 37 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 050

Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include science and natural history--the donkey, forestry, grape vines, astronomy, historian Agnes Mary Clerke, and...

Melanie T and 8 more 4 hours 35 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Biography & Autobiography

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Eugene Field - Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac

Do you love books? No, I mean REALLY love books? These series of sketches on the delights, adventures, and misadventures connected with bibliomania (bibliomania is characterized by the collecting of books which have...

David Wales and 7 more 4 hours 34 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Lafcadio Hearn - In Ghostly Japan

This collection of 14 stories collected by Lafcadio Hearn, contains Japanese ghost stories, but also several non-fiction pieces. Hearn tries to give a glimpse into the customs of the Japanese, by giving examples of...

Nadine Eckert-Boulet and 5 more 4 hours 33 minutes

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Michael Faraday - Chemical History of A Candle

The Chemical History of a Candle is a series of 6 lectures on chemistry presented to a juvenile audience in 1848. Taught by Michael Faraday — a chemist and physist, and regarded as the best experimentalist in the...

Availle 4 hours 32 minutes Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 014

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics,...

Utek and 8 more 4 hours 30 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Literary Fiction

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Theodor Storm - Rider on the White Horse

Hauke Haien, a young man of 24 years, has just beome dikemaster in Northern Frisia. Against the resistance of many of the townfolk, he has a new dike built, not according to the old customs, but to his own...

Availle 4 hours 28 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 025

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, science, humor, travel, philosophy,...

NoelBadrian and 9 more 4 hours 27 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 023

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, cooking, humor, medicine,...

Betsie Bush and 9 more 4 hours 27 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 024

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass gardening, military history, humor, climate...

Bob Neufeld and 6 more 4 hours 27 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 028

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, slavery, science, education, humor,...

Sue Anderson and 12 more 4 hours 26 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 057

Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Natural cataclysm is the subject of several readings: the 1899 Alaskan earthquake, which uplifted cliffs at Yakutat Bay 47...

April6090 and 7 more 4 hours 23 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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