Elizabeth Klett

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Black Experience in America, 18th-20th Century, Vol. 1

History

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Black Experience in America, 18th-20th Century, Vol. 1

This is not the copyrighted work by Norman Coombs currently on Project Gutenberg but a collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, and speeches found on Project Gutenberg that are by or about African...

MaryAnn and 13 more 5 hours 50 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Jane Austen - Jane Austen's Juvenilia

Before becoming the author of such classics as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Jane Austen experimented with various writing styles as a teenager in the early 1790s. This is a collection of her...

Claudia Wilson and 6 more 5 hours 47 minutes

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General Fiction

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Edith Wharton - Summer (version 2)

Wharton's 1917 novella Summer, like her more famous work Ethan Frome, is set in a very small rural New England town. Charity Royall longs to escape the claustrophobic confines of North Dormer and the inappropriate...

Elizabeth Klett 5 hours 41 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Herland

Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society comprised entirely of Aryan women who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction)....

Heather Ordover and 2 more 5 hours 34 minutes

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General Fiction

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Emily Eden - Semi-Detached House

If you're a Jane Austen fan, you'll enjoy Emily Eden's comic novels of manners, The Semi-Detached House (1859) and The Semi-Attached Couple (1860). At the opening of The Semi-Detached House, the beautiful (but rather...

Elizabeth Klett 5 hours 26 minutes

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Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy

General

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Pádraic Colum - Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy

Also known as «The Children's Homer,» this is Irish writer Padraic Colum's retelling of the events of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for young people. Colum's rich, evocative prose narrates the travails of Odysseus, King...

Elizabeth Klett 5 hours 19 minutes

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Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 4

General Fiction

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Laurence Sterne - Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 4

This is volume 4 of 4. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy ) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759,...

Martin Geeson and 3 more 5 hours 15 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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L. Frank Baum - Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville

Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville is a 1908 young-adult novel written by L. Frank Baum, famous as the creator of the Land of Oz. It is the third volume in «the successful Aunt Jane Series,» following Aunt Jane's Nieces...

Charles Bice and 8 more 5 hours 11 minutes Aunt Jane's Nieces series

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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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W. Somerset Maugham - On a Chinese Screen

This is a non-fiction collection of Maugham's observations of life in Asia in the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times and 7 more 5 hours 8 minutes

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General Fiction

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Edith Wharton - Greater Inclination

This is Edith Wharton's earliest published collection of short stories (1899). Like much of her later work, they touch on themes of marriage, male/female relationships, New York society, and the nature and purpose of...

Elizabeth Klett 5 hours 7 minutes

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Edith Wharton - Crucial Instances

This is Edith Wharton's second published collection of short stories (1901). One of these seven stories, «Copy: A Dialogue,» is written as a short play. The role of Hilda is read by Arielle Lipshaw, and the role of...

Elizabeth Klett 5 hours 6 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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