Catharine Eastman

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Humorous Fiction

H. G. Wells - Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth (version 2)

Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood have invented a substance that causes living things to grow — and grow — and grow! As their experiments progress, the substance quickly gets out of control and the fun begins as...

Catharine Eastman 8 hours 25 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Lewis Carroll - Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded continues the adventures of the many characters in the previous volume Sylvie and Bruno. The fairy-children Sylvie and Bruno are charming whenever they appear, their fairy companions such as...

Catharine Eastman 8 hours 15 minutes

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Performing Arts

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P. T. Barnum - Humbugs of the World

P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witchcraft, religious humbugs, money manias, adventurers, personal...

Barry Eads and 20 more 12 hours 48 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

A. A. Milne - Once on a Time

When the King of Barodia receives a pair of seven-league boots as a birthday present, his habit of flying over the King of Euralia's castle during breakfast provokes a series of incidents which escalate into war....

Julie Bynum and 8 more 5 hours 40 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Edgar Allan Poe - Two Poe Tales

Edgar Allan Poe is best known for his famous short horror stories; however, horror is not the only genre in which he wrote. How To Write a Blackwood Article and its companion piece A Predicament are satirical works...

Catharine Eastman 58 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Victor Hugo - Misérables Vol. 3

This is book 3 of 5. — An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people...

Alina and 14 more 10 hours 59 minutes Les Misérables (English Version)

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*Non-fiction

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 012

A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass humor, history,...

Bellona Times and 6 more 4 hours 37 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Literary Fiction

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Victor Hugo - Misérables Vol. 2

This is book 2 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people...

J. M. Smallheer and 26 more 12 hours 55 minutes Les Misérables (English Version)

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Action & Adventure

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Rudyard Kipling - Second Jungle Book

Kipling shows his love of the sub continent and its people and understanding of their beliefs in these tales. An older Mowgli roams the jungle with his old friends and investigates the ways of his people, a Prime...

Reynard T. Fox and 6 more 7 hours 11 minutes

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Children's Fiction

912

Anonymous - Vice in its Proper Shape

Or, The Wonderful and Melancholy Transformation of Several Naughty Masters and Misses Into Those Contemptible Animals Which They Most Resemble In Disposition, Cautionary tales of the transmigration of the souls of...

David Barnes and 5 more 1 hour 27 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Unknown - String of Pearls

The tale of Sweeney Todd has had many incarnations, most famously the stage and movie musical by Stephen Sondheim. But it all started in 1846 with a serialized telling of the story titled “The String of Pearls” in...

musil and 13 more 11 hours 41 minutes

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Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Fantastic Fiction

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Rudolf Erich Raspe - Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen

The stories about Münchhausen were first collected and published by an anonymous author in 1781. An English version was published in London in 1785, by Rudolf Erich Raspe, as Baron Munchhausen's Narrative of his...

Glen Hallstrom and 12 more 4 hours 45 minutes

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New

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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