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Animals

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George S. Anderson - American Big-Game Hunting

The first book published by The Boone and Crockett Club founded by Theodore Roosevelt and George Grinnell, who declared in their Editors Note: «Hunting big game in the wilderness is, above all things, a sport for a...

Michele Fry and 6 more 6 hours 44 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

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Arts and Crafts Essays

A series of essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society with a preface by William Morris who writes «It is this conscious cultivation of art and the attempt to interest the public in it which the Arts...

realisticspeakers and 11 more 6 hours 41 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Emily Clemens Pearson - Gutenberg and the Art of Printing

This book is readable account of one of the greatest inventions of modern time: moveable type. Gutenberg's work lays the foundation for the printing press, without which the world would look very different… It reads...

Availle and 12 more 6 hours 41 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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John Galsworthy - Complete Essays of John Galsworthy

This is a collection of essays by John Galsworthy. A multitude of subjects is covered, but the essays are connected by an artistic spirit, and they are written much more like short stories than in the classical style...

Pamela Nagami and 15 more 6 hours 41 minutes

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Short Stories

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Myrtle Reed - Threads of Grey and Gold

This is a collection of short stories and poems by Myrtle Reed. Many of the stories are short romances, and they share the unique, nostalgic, sometimes melancholy atmosphere so characteristic of Myrtle Reed's stories....

MaryAnn and 10 more 6 hours 40 minutes

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War & Military

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Heywood Broun - Our Army at the Front

During the US deployment in Europe in the final years of the Great War (WWI), the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) was accompanied by notable New York Tribune war correspondent, Heywood Broun. Although Broun better...

Delmar H Dolbier and 9 more 6 hours 38 minutes

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Poetry

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Ignatius Brennan - Humorous Poems

This is a collection of fun poems by West Virginia poet M. Ignatius Brennan. In his poems, the poet makes fun of the people in his surroundings, and the society in which he lived. In most instances his humor is...

BettyB and 21 more 6 hours 37 minutes

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Anthologies

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John Lomax - Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads

John Avery Lomax is a towering figure in the field of early American musicology and folklore. Through intensive field work, Lomax built up the core body of work for the Library of Congress Archive. «Cowboy Songs and...

Larry Wilson and 21 more 6 hours 36 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Sylvanus Cobb, Jr - Smuggler of King's Cove

Young Percy Maitland is a naval pilot and guides his late father's brig to safety, thereby saving the ship, her crew and cargo despite being pursued by the King's excise collectors. But has his father's successor...

Phil Splendid and 8 more 6 hours 24 minutes

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Anthologies

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Elizabeth Jordan - Different Girls

This is a collection of the best short stories about girls published in Harper's Magazine from 1895 to 1906. The girls in these stories are not the typical 'girl' from late 19th century novels. They are..different....

BettyB and 5 more 6 hours 12 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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John Farrar - Bookman, March 1921

This precursor to The New Yorker magazine features several Algonquin Roundtable regulars, including Broun, Woolcott, and Morley. Editor is John C. Farrar, an American editor, writer and publisher. Farrar founded two...

Elanor and 6 more 6 hours 2 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Children's Wonder Book

This is a wild mix of different children's stories by different authors. All lof the stories are original, and some of them use a well-known story and bring a novel and often humorous twist to it. Children of all ages...

Patrick Saville and 10 more 5 hours 53 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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