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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 2

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 2

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...

Andrew David King and 26 more 24 hours 5 minutes Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 3

Anthologies

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 3

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...

Leonard Wilson and 21 more 21 hours 30 minutes Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

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Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

Essays & Short Works

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William Hazlitt - Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things is a posthumous collection of essays by William Hazlitt, organized by his grandson, William Carew Hazlitt. The book contains some of Hazlitt's more famous essays...

Bob Gonzalez and 16 more 20 hours 30 minutes

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Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Originally compiled by Cervantes himself in 1613 as a collection of «exemplary» stories, this translated version from 1881 brings these stories to the English reader. Included in the collection are twelve stories...

Tim Ferreira and 13 more 18 hours 10 minutes

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Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 05

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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H. P. Nichols - Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 05

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No...

Lars Rolander and 9 more 17 hours 43 minutes Thousand Nights and a Night

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Travel Fiction

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Washington Irving - Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

Apart from «Rip Van Winkle» and «The Legend of Sleepy Hollow» — the pieces which made both Irving and The Sketch Book famous — other tales include «Roscoe», «The Broken Heart», «The Art of Book-making», «A Royal...

Easton and 15 more 15 hours 21 minutes

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General Fiction

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Gertrude Stein - Geography and Plays

Geography and Plays is a 1922 collection of Gertrude Stein's «word portraits,» or stream-of-consciousness writings. These stream-of-consciousness experiments, rhythmical essays or «portraits», were designed to evoke...

Arielle Lipshaw and 16 more 12 hours 35 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Hamilton Wright Mabie - Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know

This is a collection of well known fairy tales by various authors, including the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault and many others. (Summary by Elli)

Michael Packard and 17 more 10 hours 55 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Andrew Lang - Olive Fairy Book

Andrew Lang’s Olive Fairy Book (1907) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was followed by many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as...

Jason Mills and 17 more 9 hours 27 minutes Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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Biography & Autobiography

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May Gillington Byron - Day With Great Poets

Who was John Milton? The author of Paradise Lost you say? Well, certainly, but he was also a man, going about his daily life like any of us in 17th century England, (except that he was a genius of course). Take time...

CaprishaPage and 5 more 7 hours 59 minutes

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Poetry

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William Wordsworth - Prelude

Among monuments of narrative poetry, The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind, by William Wordsworth, occupies a unique place. Wordsworth published the first version of the poem in 1798, but continued to work on it...

Bob Gonzalez and 9 more 7 hours 55 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 031

Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the Faust Legend, Stephen Crane, Sundials and the Statue of Liberty. (Summary by Sue Anderson)

Craig Campbell and 11 more 7 hours 32 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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