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Nora Archibald Smith - Tales of Laughter

Time to exercise your funny bone. This fun collection of stories from around the world will make children of all ages smile and chuckle. A LAUGHING SONG When the greenwoods laugh with the voice of joy, And the...

Lynne T and 14 more 15 hours 53 minutes

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Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

Cooking

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Marion Harland - Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

This is a practical guide to running a household in 1883. Marion Harland not only walks us through a number of important topics such as how to select and manage servants and organise a dinner party (best engage a good...

Dusty Brailsford and 13 more 15 hours 33 minutes

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Science

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Bernhard Eduard Fernow - Brief History of Forestry

An accessible, comprehensive summary of the science and art of forestry, from its ancient roots to its 20th century techniques (many of which are still used today). This book synthesizes forestry efforts and practices...

John Van Stan and 10 more 15 hours 29 minutes

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War & Military

Anonymous - Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy

A collection of true stories of the high seas, from the nineteenth century. Shipwrecks, mutiny, life and death decision-making — all far from home, while pitting themselves against the elements. The romance of the...

Larry Wilson and 15 more 14 hours 11 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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1916: First Chapters Collection

These are first chapters to books first published in 1916. Readers, following is a tentative list culled from Wikipedia's article on the year in Literature; most of the works are to be found on Project Gutenberg. —...

John Burlinson and 9 more 14 hours 5 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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Children's Non-fiction

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Boy Scouts of America - Boy Scouts Handbook

The Boy Scouts of America was founded over a hundred years ago to serve the young men of the United States of America and give them the same oppurtunities that Boy Scouts all over the world were receiving. Modeled...

Kangaroo and 19 more 13 hours 34 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Henryk Sienkiewicz - In Desert and Wilderness

In Desert and Wilderness is a novel for children by Polish author and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz. It tells the story of two children, Staś Tarkowski and Nel Rawlison, and their adventures as they...

Beth Thomas and 14 more 13 hours 22 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

Laura Valentine - Old Old Fairy Tales

«Once upon a time a king had an extreme passion for silkworms...» So begins one story in this unusual collection. Here you may also find a farm girl cursed by becoming a queen, a prince blessed with having his every...

Charlie Grey and 13 more 13 hours 15 minutes

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Letters from Victorian Pioneers

A series of letters on the early occupation of the colony, the Aborigines, etc addressed by Victorian pioneers to his Excellency Charles Joseph La Trobe Esq., Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Victoria in response...

Beth Thomas and 15 more 12 hours 44 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Thomas Mayne Reid - Ocean Waifs

«The “vulture of the sea,” borne upon broad wing, and wandering over the wide Atlantic, suddenly suspends his flight to look down upon an object that has attracted his attention. It is a raft, with a disc not...

Anton and 19 more 12 hours 41 minutes

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Family

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Mary Martha Sherwood - Fairchild Family

The adventures of Lucy, Emily and Henry are described in this short novel, written and set in Regency England. Their naughtiness, their activities and their interactions with the children next door; Miss Augusta and...

flutterby93 and 16 more 12 hours 38 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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