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Concise Commentary on the Bible - Book of Matthew

*Non-fiction

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Matthew Henry - Concise Commentary on the Bible - Book of Matthew

Spiritual and practical lessons are extracted from every verse of the Book of Matthew, as well as detailed explanation of the text. The Book of Matthew is part of the New Testament in the Holy Bible and is one of the...

Rob Paire and 10 more 4 hours 7 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Jack London - Jacket

A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture...

Barry Eads 10 hours 8 minutes

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Single Author Collections

455

Heywood Broun - Seeing Things at Night

This Book is a collection of humorous short stories which describe the comedy in everyday things and situations. (Summary by Carolin)

Barry Eads and 6 more 6 hours 55 minutes

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Headless Horseman - A Strange Tale of Texas

Action & Adventure Fiction

967

Thomas Mayne Reid - Headless Horseman - A Strange Tale of Texas

The horse is perfect in all its parts—a splendid steed, saddled, bridled, and otherwise completely caparisoned. In it there appears nothing amiss—nothing to produce either wonder or alarm. But the man—the rider? Ah!...

Barry Eads and 14 more 22 hours 35 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

532

Alexander Hunter - Johnny Reb and Billy Yank

Johnny Reb & Billy Yank is an epic novel first published in 1905 by Alexander Hunter, a soldier who served in Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army from 1861 to 1865. The novel is noted for encapsulating most of...

Barry Eads 27 hours 48 minutes

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Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin

War & Military

515

Joseph Plumb Martin - Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin

Joining the Continental Army as a teenager, Joseph Plumb Martin spent the next eight years fighting in the Revolutionary War as an enlisted man. His memoirs tell in detail his experiences during that time...the...

Barry Eads 8 hours 1 minute

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

527

William Clark Russell - Frozen Pirate

Sailing adventure with storms, icebergs, shipwrecks, treasure, and the reawakening of a pirate frozen in suspended animation for nearly fifty years (Summary by P. Cunningham)

Patti Cunningham and 5 more 11 hours 39 minutes

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War & Military

501

Richard Harding Davis - Notes of a War Correspondent

Experiences and observations of the journalist in the Cuban-Spanish War, the Greek-Turkish War, the Spanish-American War, the South African War, and the Japanese-Russian War, accompanied by «A War Correspondent’s...

Barry Eads and 7 more 5 hours 43 minutes

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General Fiction

573

Elizabeth Inchbald - Simple Story

The story could really have been simple: Miss Milner, who is admired for her beauty and charm, could have been a socialite, marry a respectable and good looking man and be happy in the standards of her time. But if...

MaryAnn and 11 more 11 hours 5 minutes

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General Fiction

561

George du Maurier - Trilby

Trilby, published in 1894, fits into the gothic horror genre which was undergoing a revival during the Fin de siècle and is one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin...

Christian Al-Kadi and 7 more 11 hours 12 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Lawrence J. Burpee - Humour of the North

Some day an enterprising editor may find time to glean from the whole field of Canadian literature a representative collection of wit and humour.... The present little collection obviously makes no such ambitious...

Barry Eads and 6 more 1 hour 22 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

601

Captain Charles Johnson - General History of the Pyrates

A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book containing biographies of contemporary pirates. It's author uses the name Captain Charles Johnson, generally considered a...

Barry Eads and 10 more 12 hours 47 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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