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H. G. Wells - Twelve Stories and a Dream

Thirteen short stories by HG Wells, the master of speculative fiction! Included in this collection is «Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland» where a man finds his way into fairyland where a fairy queen tries to seduce him...

Charbelí Ramos Chávez and 10 more 7 hours 48 minutes

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Short Stories

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H. A. Guerber - Story of the Greeks

This book is a collection of stories and histories about the Ancient Greeks, including many of their famous myths! — Summary by Ann Boulais

Donald Cummings and 44 more 7 hours 35 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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Ray Cummings - Astounding Stories 03, March 1930

This is the third issue of the classic science fiction Astounding Magazine. It contains the opening chapters of a 4 part serialized novel by Ray Cummings, and stories by the prolific Capt. S. P. Meek, Will Smith and...

om123 and 4 more 7 hours 34 minutes Astounding Stories Magazines Issues 1-20

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Antiquity

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William Jennings Bryan - World's Famous Orations, Vol. I: Greece

This is the first volume in the ten volume collection of the world's most famous orations, as compiled by William Jennings Bryant and Francis Whiting Halsey. The first volume concerns ancient Greece, and contains such...

Jason in Panama and 12 more 7 hours 8 minutes World's Famous Orations

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Apollonius Rhodius - Argonautica

The story of how Jason and a group of famous heroes of Greece took to sea in the Argos has been told many times, before and after Apollonius of Rhodes, wrote his Argonautica, in the 3rd century b.C… It is not only the...

Leni and 7 more 6 hours 52 minutes

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Law

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Robert Vashon Rogers - Law and Medical Men

The idea that in the library of nearly every practitioner in the professions of both Physic and Law there has been for some time a small gap among the books, which could be filled by a little work like this now...

Lynne T and 6 more 6 hours 15 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Jack London - Revolution, and other Essays

A collection of 13 essays written between 1900 and 1908, published in 1910. The lead essay, «Revolution», outlines how and why London renounced capitalism as a failed social system and declared himself an active...

Michele Fry and 9 more 6 hours 7 minutes

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General Fiction

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Edgar Fawcett - Douglas Duane

An introverted, kind-hearted book collector befriends a mad scientist, who isn’t exactly a good friend. When the scientist falls in love with the book collector’s fiancée, he concocts an evil plot to have her for his...

ashleighjane and 9 more 6 hours 7 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Ambrose Bierce - Cobwebs from an Empty Skull

Ambrose Bierce's collection of short parables, published under the pen name of Dod Grile, is similar to Aesop's Fables. This compilation is comprised of «Fables of Zambri, the Parsee,» «Brief Seasons of Intellectual...

Larry Wilson and 10 more 6 hours 3 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Selma Lagerlöf - Christ Legends

These are beautiful little stories about Christmas from the Swedish storyteller Selma Lagerlöf. As she explains in the first story, they were told her by her grandmother «I remember that grandmother told story after...

Phil Chenevert and 8 more 5 hours 56 minutes

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Science Fiction

Carey Rockwell - On the Trail of the Space Pirates

Tom Corbett is the main character in a series of Tom Corbett — Space Cadet stories that were depicted in television, radio, books, comic books, comic strips, and other media in the 1950s. The stories followed the...

Ed Humpal and 6 more 5 hours 43 minutes

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Hero Tales from American History (version 2)

General

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Henry Cabot Lodge - Hero Tales from American History (version 2)

The purpose of this book «is to tell in simple fashion the story of some Americans who showed that they knew how to live and how to die; who proved their truth by their endeavor; and who joined to the stern and manly...

MaryAnn and 8 more 5 hours 42 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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