Claudia Salto

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Hamilton Wright Mabie - Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 2

This is the second book in a twelve volume series, and highlights myths and legendary heroes from around the world, from Ancient Greece to Scandinavia and the Far East. They are aimed at the junior audience. (Summary...

Lynne T and 25 more 18 hours 56 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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Children's Fiction

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Olive Beaupre Miller - Treasure Chest of My Bookhouse

Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the fourth volume of the «My Bookhouse» series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited...

Pascal Ramseier and 28 more 13 hours 2 minutes My Bookhouse Series

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Biography & Autobiography

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Charles F. Horne - Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 1

Great Men and Famous Women is an 8-volume work by various authors containing “A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History.” The set is edited by...

Greg Giordano and 15 more 11 hours 46 minutes

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General

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Hamilton Wright Mabie - Heroes Every Child Should Know

The endeavour has been made in this volume to bring together the heroic men of different races, periods and types; and in the selection of material the most attractive, intelligent and authoritative literature has...

Claudia Salto and 15 more 11 hours 1 minute

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 056

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 056: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, including stories by Tolstoy, Gelett Burgess, Oscar Wilde, O. Henry and a...

Bellona Times and 8 more 10 hours 53 minutes Short Story Collections

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Romance

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Edward P. Roe - He Fell in Love with His Wife

James desperately needs someone to help him keep his farm going, but has failure after colossal failure finding a good housekeeper. Alida marries a man only to find out he's already married. She's so undone when she...

Lee Smalley and 8 more 10 hours 34 minutes

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 057

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 057: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members. A few notes: Section 12 The Cossack was translated by Constance...

Bellona Times and 11 more 9 hours 29 minutes Short Story Collections

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Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches

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Cotton Mather - Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches

Here are first hand accounts, published in 1692, of the infamous «Salem Witch Trials». In addition to Mather's interpretation of the Book of Revelations (which he calls «God's last letter to the people of earth»),...

Michele Fry and 9 more 9 hours 1 minute

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Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life

Single Author Collections

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life

This is a collection of short stories focussing on the problems that present themselves to physicians and surgeons in the course of their work. The volume is named «Round the Red Lamp» as a reference to the red lamps...

Peter John Keeble and 9 more 7 hours 20 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Howard Pyle - Wonder Clock

«Four and twenty marvellous tales, one for each hour of the day,» retold in a novel and entertaining manner by a master of the form. While drawing on German, English, and Scandinavian folk literature for many of his...

Kara Shallenberg and 9 more 6 hours 59 minutes

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Technology & Engineering

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Harry Chase Brearley - Time Telling Through the Ages

A history of timekeeping from the stone age through to American mass production, covering timepieces from the sundial and water clock through the key inventions driving advances in the accuracy of clocks and watches...

Claudia Salto and 6 more 6 hours 23 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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