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Alan Seeger - I Have a Rendezvous with Death

This book… contains the record of a short life, into which was crowded far more of keen experience and high aspiration—of the thrill of sense and the rapture of soul—than it is given to most men, even of high...

Bruce Kachuk and 17 more 28 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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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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Coffee Break Collection 014 - New Beginnings

Short Stories

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Coffee Break Collection 014 - New Beginnings

This is the fourteenth collection of our «coffee break» series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like...

Lynne T and 8 more 1 hour 11 minutes Coffee Break Collections

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Frank Benton - Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack

Frank Benton, himself a wealthy rancher, provides a series of first-hand sketches of cowboy life of the late 19th and early 20th century from stories gathered from the «sidetrack.» These were working cowpunchers with...

Larry Wilson and 9 more 3 hours 39 minutes

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Single author

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Francis Thompson - Selected Poems of Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson, an English poet and author, is best known for his poem «Hound of Heaven,» included in this selection of his poems. After submitting some poems to the magazine «Merrie England,» the editors, Wilfrid...

Larry Wilson and 18 more 3 hours 52 minutes

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Nature

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Robert Hooke - Micrographia

Published in 1665, this is the first publication of the Royal Society and considered to be the first scientific best-seller. As opposed to the Latin of other publications of the time like Newton's 'Principia...

DrPGould and 22 more 17 hours 11 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Atlantic Classics

The Atlantic was a popular periodical with a wide range of essays and stories. In an effort to remain current, many strong and valid submissions ended up being pushed aside. The Atlantic Classic was an experimental...

MaryAnn and 10 more 7 hours 45 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Kate Seymour MacLean - Thanksgiving

A tribute to the autumn season, taken from THE COMING OF THE PRINCESS, AND OTHER POEMS (1881) — Summary by David Lawrence

aravagarwal and 16 more 36 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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George William Curtis - From the Easy Chair Vol. 3

The third volume of essays and observations From the Easy Chair of William Curtis, editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the American Republican party, and served Ulysses S. Grant; although he split...

Larry Wilson and 8 more 4 hours 21 minutes

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War & Military

Bruce Bairnsfather - From Mud to Mufti: With Old Bill on all Fronts

This second volume of memories from the Great War (WWI) by the celebrated war cartoonist and social observer, begins with Bairnsfather's recuperation from injuries suffered in the Second Battle of Ypres and ends with...

DrPGould 4 hours 54 minutes

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Short Stories

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Coffee Break Collection 013 - Weather

This is the thirteenth collection of our «coffee break» series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like...

Patrick Wallace and 11 more 1 hour 55 minutes Coffee Break Collections

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Short Stories

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Richard Middleton - Day before Yesterday

This is a volume of short stories and essays by Richard Middleton. The British poet and author wrote a large number of short pieces during his life, which are today still as entertaining as they were then. Published...

DrPGould and 14 more 4 hours 37 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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