Beth Thomas (1974-2020)

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm - Household Tales

The complete Brothers Grimm stories, as translated directly from the German. Some of the stories will be familiar such as The Frog Prince, Rapunzel, and Cinderella. Other tales are less well known such as The Three...

Beth Thomas and 39 more 30 hours 18 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

512

Charles Robert Maturin - Melmoth The Wanderer

One of the first horror novels, it tells the story of Melmoth, who sells his soul so he could have an extended life. Throughout the novel, he wanders around the world in search of someone who would replace him and...

Beth Thomas and 11 more 28 hours 39 minutes

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Sermons on Several Occasions, Second Series

Literary Collections

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John Wesley - Sermons on Several Occasions, Second Series

John Wesley, along with his brother Charles, are credited with founding the Methodist denomination. «The following Sermons contain the substance of what I have been preaching for between eight and nine years last...

MaryAnn and 17 more 25 hours 45 minutes

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War & Military

453

Henry Stanley Banks - War Surgery - From Firing Line to Base

One of the first volumes dedicated to systematized medical treatment of soldiers in modern warfare, including a chapter on specific care for airmen, by British doctors who served on the front lines of WWI. Graphic...

Bellona Times and 13 more 24 hours 27 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Curiosities of Street Literature

This is a collection of broadsides from London. Broadsides are short, popular publications, a precursor to today's tabloid journalism. The collection contains sensationalist and sometimes comical stories about...

Ed Humpal and 27 more 21 hours 22 minutes

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Religion

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Anonymous - Bible For Young People Vol. 1

«The Bible for Young People tells the sweet and simple stories of the Bible in the Bible language, omitting only genealogies and doctrines, and whatever is generally regarded as unprofitable to young readers....

Lynne T and 31 more 20 hours 18 minutes

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 6

Anthologies

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 6

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering «American households a mass of good reading», the editors drew from...

Jothi Tharavant and 18 more 19 hours 18 minutes Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

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Plays

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Gladys Davidson - Stories From The Operas

«Owing to the appreciation which has been accorded to my three series of „Stories from the Operas,“ it has been decided to re-issue the collection in one volume, and to include in this additional stories of new and...

JoeBlu and 16 more 19 hours 2 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Louisa May Alcott - Little Women (version 4)

Little Women is the classic story of the March family, which consists of Mr. and Mrs. March and their four girls–Practical, yet fashion conscious, Meg, who longs for the nice things they used to have. Rambunctious,...

Jennifer Stearns and 20 more 18 hours 27 minutes

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Middle Ages/Middle History

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Edward Foord - Byzantine Empire

A concise and comprehensive guide to the Byzantine empire from Constantine to its dissolution. Foord explores in an accessible manner why it was important to history, the significance of noteworthy events, and how it...

Beth Thomas and 6 more 14 hours 32 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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John Augustine Zahm - Woman in Science

A history of woman's role in science through the ages and the many contributions she has made. (summary by Guero)

Nadine Eckert-Boulet and 13 more 14 hours 2 minutes

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Gothic Fiction

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Ann Radcliffe - Romance of the Forest

A Gothic novel famously mentioned by Jane Austen in «Northanger Abbey» as an inspiration for the romantic ideals and supernatural fears of Catherine. Ann Radcliffe has been called the «Great Enchantress» of her age...

Beth Thomas and 11 more 13 hours 52 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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