Ellen Preckel

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Hamilton Wright Mabie - Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 2

This is the second book in a twelve volume series, and highlights myths and legendary heroes from around the world, from Ancient Greece to Scandinavia and the Far East. They are aimed at the junior audience. (Summary...

Lynne T and 25 more 18 hours 56 minutes

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Christian Fiction

485

George MacDonald - Thomas Wingfold, Curate

Republished in modern times as «The Curate's Awakening». A young man (Thomas Wingfold) «enters the church» through no real faith and only for want of something to do. After an encounter with a brash young atheist, he...

John Schuurman and 17 more 18 hours 48 minutes

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Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 1

Exploration

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Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 1

The famous writer of great adventure stories Jules Verne wrote also several lesser known, but good non-fiction works. «Celebrated travels and travellers» tells the story of geographical discovery in the same well...

William Tomcho and 15 more 18 hours 23 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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J. Thomas Looney - Shakespeare Identified

That one who is not a recognized authority or an expert in literature should attempt the solution of a problem which has so far baffled specialists must doubtless appear to many as a glaring act of over- boldness;...

Lucretia B. and 15 more 16 hours 55 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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John Jeffery Farnol - Broad Highway

Our hero, Peter Vibart, an Oxford graduate with no means of support but for 10 guineas he has inherited, sets out on a walking tour of the Kent countryside. Along the way, he meets many quaint and adoring characters...

John Lieder and 6 more 15 hours 51 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Hamilton Wright Mabie - Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 3

Another wonderful compilation of stories edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie! This volume, the 3rd of 12, contains 2 main sections: Classic Tales and Old Fashioned Stories. Of the first section, assistant editor Daniel...

Ellen Preckel 15 hours 31 minutes

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Christianity - Commentary

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Thomas De Witt Talmage - Old Wells Dug Out

Thomas DeWitt Talmage was born in Bound Brook, New Jersey. He earned an undergraduates degree at the University of the city of New York, now known as New York University. After his graduation he studied law, but...

MaryAnn and 3 more 15 hours 8 minutes

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Junior Classics Volume 5: Stories That Never Grow Old

General

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William Patten - Junior Classics Volume 5: Stories That Never Grow Old

A selection of famous tales selected and re-worked for a junior audience. Stories are taken from Arabian Nights, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Shakespearean plays, Pilgrim's Progress, Ivanhoe, and The Startling...

Lynne T and 19 more 13 hours 56 minutes The Junior Classics

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Romance

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Edward P. Roe - He Fell in Love with His Wife

James desperately needs someone to help him keep his farm going, but has failure after colossal failure finding a good housekeeper. Alida marries a man only to find out he's already married. She's so undone when she...

Lee Smalley and 8 more 10 hours 34 minutes

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Short Stories

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O. Henry - Heart of the West

A collection of short stories by the legendary O. Henry. (Summary by sidhu177)

Bob Neufeld and 13 more 8 hours 26 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Burton Egbert Stevenson - King in Babylon

A film company shooting a movie in Egypt becomes embroiled in events that happened in ancient Egypt. A supernatural adventure story about a pharaoh's curse and reincarnation… but with film directors and movie stars as...

Ellen Preckel and 4 more 7 hours 38 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Clara Vaughan, Vol. II

CLARA VAUGHAN, the young heroine, narrator, and namesake for R. D. Blackmore’s early detective novel, is determined to solve the mystery of her father’s murder—a crime that occurred when she was only 10 years of age....

Ellen Preckel and 5 more 7 hours 19 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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