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George Lyttelton - Dialogues of the Dead

Can the dead of different ages and spaces meet in the afterlife? This is a thought that has occupied a number of writers throughout literature, George Lyttleton being one of them. He allows Plato to discourse with...

DrPGould 6 hours 54 minutes

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War & Military

547

Heywood Broun - Our Army at the Front

During the US deployment in Europe in the final years of the Great War (WWI), the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) was accompanied by notable New York Tribune war correspondent, Heywood Broun. Although Broun better...

Delmar H Dolbier and 9 more 6 hours 38 minutes

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Romance

510

L. Frank Baum - Last Egyptian

Published anonymously during Baum's lifetime as he did not want his adult adventure stories to detract from his children's fantasy stories, the story takes the limited points of view of three protagonists in the field...

Delmar H Dolbier and 11 more 6 hours 37 minutes

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Poetry

553

Ignatius Brennan - Humorous Poems

This is a collection of fun poems by West Virginia poet M. Ignatius Brennan. In his poems, the poet makes fun of the people in his surroundings, and the society in which he lived. In most instances his humor is...

BettyB and 21 more 6 hours 37 minutes

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Anthologies

509

John Lomax - Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads

John Avery Lomax is a towering figure in the field of early American musicology and folklore. Through intensive field work, Lomax built up the core body of work for the Library of Congress Archive. «Cowboy Songs and...

Larry Wilson and 21 more 6 hours 36 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

487

Aylward Edward Dingle - Pirate Woman

Within his mysterious stronghold, «The Cave of Terrible Things,» on the Maroon coast of Jamaica, washed by the waters of the Caribbean Sea, Red Jabez, Sultan of Pirates, had just died. Dolores, his daughter, «a...

Sonia and 9 more 6 hours 30 minutes

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World’s Famous Orations, Vol. III: Great Britain - I

Political Science

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William Jennings Bryan - World’s Famous Orations, Vol. III: Great Britain - I

In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period,...

Phil Schempf and 7 more 6 hours 28 minutes World's Famous Orations

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Historical Fiction

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Sir Walter Scott - Black Dwarf

The Black Dwarf is the first of the “Tales of My Landlord” series, which also includes The Bride of Lammermoor and The Heart of Midlothian. The third preliminary chapter depicts two horsemen arriving at the Wallace...

tbragg and 5 more 6 hours 15 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Edmund Dulac - Edmund Dulac's Fairy Tale Book

Unusual Fairy Tales from around the world, this story collection contains; a mother with two daughters both named Caroline, a carriage drawn by winged frogs, a prince turned into a bird and a princess in the form of a...

Annyiee Hill and 5 more 6 hours 14 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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L. Frank Baum - Phoebe Daring

A headstrong female detective strives to clear a good man's name in this children's mystery by Oz author L. Frank Baum. Summary by Miriam Esther Goldman

Miriam Esther Goldman and 9 more 6 hours 14 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

428

Robert Lynd - Book of This and That

From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as stupidity, Christmas, spring fashions, and the beauty of statistics. — Summary...

Tom Penn and 11 more 5 hours 45 minutes

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Recollections of Old Liverpool by a Nonagenarian

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James Stonehouse - Recollections of Old Liverpool by a Nonagenarian

These reflections of a 93 year old Liverpudlian provide a unique view of life in late 19th to mid19th century Liverpool. They were transcribed as they were related by him and, as a result this narrative has the ring...

Phillip J Mather and 2 more 5 hours 38 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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