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Short Stories from Locomotive Engineers Journal, Volume 52

Published 1900 onward

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Short Stories from Locomotive Engineers Journal, Volume 52

These short stories are taken from the Locomotive Engineers Journal, Volume 52 which covers the year, 1918. Don't expect any trains — these are short works on many subjects, including romance, adventure, humor, etc. —...

VfkaBT and 13 more 5 hours 12 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Arthur Symons - Figures of Several Centuries

Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and critical wonder to the worlds of his subjects; Donne, Ibsen, Baudelaire and...

Jim Locke and 12 more 8 hours 59 minutes

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Animals & Nature

L. Frank Baum - Twinkle and Chubbins; Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland

Twinkle is a little girl who often finds herself caught up in fantastic adventures. Whether it be being put on trial by angry woodchucks, raising a hateful baby crow, visiting a town full of talking prairie dogs,...

BettyB and 6 more 3 hours 15 minutes

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Travel & Geography

National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 02. February 1896

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the February Number. It includes the following articles: Venezuela: Her Government, People, and Boundary, by William E. Curtis The Panama Canal Route,...

VfkaBT and 4 more 2 hours 17 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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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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Travel & Geography

National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 01. January 1896

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the January Number. It includes the Introductory by the editor, John Hyde, and the following articles: Russia in Europe, an annual address by Hon....

BettyB and 4 more 2 hours 15 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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Family Life

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Ella D'Arcy - Stories of Troubled Marriages

Anyone who is, or has been, married knows that marriage takes work. While some marriages may be 'made in heaven', others, quite simply, are not. This short anthology comprises stories of the second variety, as...

John Burlinson and 4 more 2 hours 33 minutes

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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 06. June 1896

Travel & Geography

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 06. June 1896

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the June Number. It includes the following articles: The Seine, the Meuse, and the Moselle, by William M. Davis Across the Gulf by rail to Key West, by...

MaryAnn and 2 more 1 hour 30 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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Children's Fiction

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Laura Lee Hope - Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat

The Bobbsey family are are staying on a houseboat for summer vacation! At first all seems to be going well — what with fishing, playing with friends, and exploring the river. But then a mean farmer arrives, who seems...

deongines and 4 more 3 hours 56 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Cyrus Macmillan - Canadian Fairy Tales

Professor Macmillan has placed all lovers of fairy tales under a deep debt of obligation to him. The fairy tale makes a universal appeal both to old and young; to the young because it is the natural world in which...

R.J. Siva and 17 more 5 hours 3 minutes

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Poetry

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Joyce Kilmer - Main Street, and Other Poems

This is a book of poems by Joyce Kilmer. It includes several of his religious poems and poems about World War I, in which the author himself lost his life in 1918. — Summary by Carolin

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*Non-fiction

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United Nations - United Nations Agreements

The Charter of the United Nations signed at San Francisco on 26 June 1945 is the constituent treaty of the United Nations. It is as well one of the constitutional texts of the International Court of Justice which was...

Kathryn Magee and 3 more 2 hours 28 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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