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John Reed - Ten Days that Shook the World

Ten Days that Shook the World (1919) is a book by American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 which Reed experienced firsthand. Reed followed many of the prominent...

Debra and 11 more 14 hours 42 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Clayton Edwards - Treasury of Heroes and Heroines

It would be pleasant indeed to gather the characters of this book together and listen to the conversation of wholly different but interested couples—for this is a book of contrasts and has been written as such. Lives...

Lucretia B. and 20 more 11 hours 40 minutes

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General Fiction

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Robert Grant - Unleavened Bread

A businessman's selfish wife forces her way into upper society. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Bellona Times and 1 more 11 hours 20 minutes

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Animals & Nature

498

Andrew Lang - Brown Fairy Book

Andrew Lang’s Brown Fairy Book (1904) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was one of many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as Andrew...

Richard Kilmer and 13 more 10 hours 2 minutes Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young

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Jacob Abbott - Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young

Subtitled, «The principles on which a firm parental authority may be established and maintained, without violence or anger, and the right development of the moral and mental capacities be promoted by methods in...

Nodo420 and 9 more 10 hours 1 minute

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Biography & Autobiography

438

Sarah Knowles Bolton - Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous

These characters have been chosen from various countries and from varied professions, that the youth who read this book may see that poverty is no barrier to success. It usually develops ambition, and nerves people to...

Pamela Krantz and 15 more 9 hours 31 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Saki - Toys of Peace

This is the fifth collection of short stories by Saki (H.H. Munro), and was published posthumously in 1923. Even so, many of the stories are quite up to the standard of those collected earlier. (Summary by Graham...

Graham Redman and 15 more 6 hours 59 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Fanny Coe - Book of Stories for the Storyteller

This group project is a collection of 43 fairy tales (both old and new), folk lore, myths and real life stories by a variety of authors, brought together by writer Fanny E Coe. They are mostly short and are fun to...

Jing Li and 15 more 6 hours 5 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Joseph Jacobs - Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales

A collection of folk and fairy tales from the Emerald Isle. There is an earlier version of this book — Celtic Fairy Tales , but this recording was done from a different book in Project Gutenberg. Same book, new...

K.G.Cross and 14 more 5 hours 58 minutes

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Short Stories

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O. Henry - Four Million (Version 2)

The man with the surprise endings: that was O. Henry's trademark. This is the second published collection of short stories by O. Henry originally released in 1906. There are twenty five stories of various lengths...

Mike Pelton and 13 more 5 hours 36 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Edgar Allan Poe - 12 Creepy Tales

This is a collection of 12 creepy stories by that master of creepiness, Poe. The Black Cat; The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven; The Tell Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, the Premature Burial and six...

Ann Boulais and 10 more 5 hours 8 minutes

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Historical

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Charles Alexander Eastman - Indian Child Life

The author was raised as an American Indian and describes what it was like to be an Indian boy (the first 7 chapters) and an Indian Girl (the last 7 chapters). This is very different from the slanted way the white man...

Phil Chenevert and 3 more 2 hours 43 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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