Clive Catterall

12 books

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Science

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Richard A. Proctor - Light Science for Leisure Hours

In preparing these Essays, my chief object has been to present scientific truths in a light and readable form—clearly and simply, but with an exact adherence to the facts as I see them. I have followed—here and...

Lynda Marie Neilson and 9 more 9 hours 40 minutes

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Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers

Biography & Autobiography

432

Samuel Smiles - Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers

Short Biographies of some of the most influential engineers who developed the modern manufacturing methods behind the Industrial Revolution. Engineers and designers tend to be fairly anonymous figures in history...

Clive Catterall 11 hours 22 minutes

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Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front

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450

E. W. Hornung - Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front

In 1915 Oscar Hornung, son of the famous author E W Hornung, was killed at Ypres after less than a year as a soldier in Flanders. He was only 20. Two years later E W Hornung volunteered to help run one of the YMCA...

Clive Catterall 5 hours 33 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

441

Henry C. Barkley - Studies in the Art of Rat-Catching

This book is often described as an instruction manual on the subject of rat-catching. It does indeed contain a good deal about rats, ferrets and dogs, but it is much more than that. Barkley fills the book with humour,...

Clive Catterall 3 hours

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Short works

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Nathaniel Hawthorne - Wonder Book for Girls and Boys

A Yankee student stays at a country house called Tanglewood during a golden New England fall. Also at the house are about a dozen children: younger cousins of the student and their friends of varying ages. The...

Clive Catterall 5 hours 8 minutes

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*Non-fiction

505

Niccolò Machiavelli - Prince (Version 4)

This book is a five hundred year old manual for how to run a kingdom or principality. Written in 1513 but not published until 1532, «The Prince» generated controversy even before it got into print. Unlike the many...

Clive Catterall 3 hours 16 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sir Nigel

By 1348 the House of Loring has fallen on hard times. Together, the Black Death and the greedy monks of Waverley have bled away all of the Loring wealth. Even the manor house will have to go to pay their debts. Then...

Clive Catterall 12 hours 7 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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George MacDonald - Light Princess and Other Fairy Tales

George MacDonald claimed that he did not write for children, but for the child-like. Some of his longer works are clearly intended for adults, and this fantastic fiction influenced later writers such as G.K....

Clive Catterall 3 hours 30 minutes

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Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale Collection

Children's Fiction

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Hans Christian Andersen - Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale Collection

These are 25 fairy tales written by Hans Christian Andersen — A collection of something for everyone — the very popular stories, the less well-known stories and favorites, that both children and grownups can enjoy....

Lucy Perry and 15 more 4 hours 39 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Ghost Story Collection 005

A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyond. If just one story prickles the hair on the back of your neck, or prickles...

Wes Kingston and 8 more 4 hours 2 minutes Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - White Company

Set during the Hundred Years' War with France, The White Company tells the story of a young Saxon man who is learning what it is to be a knight. Raised by Cistercian Monks and rejected by a violent elder brother,...

Clive Catterall 14 hours 44 minutes

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Science Fiction

504

Marion Zimmer Bradley - Door Through Space

At one time Race Cargill had been the best Terran Intelligence agent on the complex and mysterious planet of Wolf. He had repeatedly imperiled his life amongst the half-human and non-human creatures of the sullen...

Christie Nowak and 1 more 3 hours 55 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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