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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Andrew Lang - Arabian Nights Entertainments

The Arabian Nights is a collection of Perso-Arabic folk tales and other stories. The collection, or at least certain stories drawn from it (or purporting to be drawn from it), became widely known in the West from the...

Neeru Iyer and 15 more 10 hours 34 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Andrew Lang - Crimson Fairy Book

The Crimson Fairy Book contains thirty-six stories collected from around the world and edited by Andrew Lang. Many tales in this book are translated, or adapted, from those told by mothers and nurses in Hungary;...

Jenny Lundak and 11 more 10 hours 4 minutes Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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*Non-fiction

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Bob Brown - Complete Book of Cheese

Bob Brown, after living thirty years in as many foreign lands and enjoying countless national cheeses at the source, returned to New York and summed them all up in this book. Born in Chicago, he was graduated...

Carl Manchester and 14 more 9 hours 42 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Andrew Lang - Orange Fairy Book

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's «Coloured» Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the...

Paul Vinson Brown and 21 more 9 hours 41 minutes Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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Romance

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Edith Wharton - Reef

George Darrow, Anna Leath’s first love, is finally coming from London to propose to her. However, he drifts to an affair with Sophy Viner, Anna’s daughter’s naïve and young governess. Sophy’s relationship with Darrow...

Elli and 8 more 9 hours 33 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables (version 5)

Anne of Green Gables is about an orphan girl who is starving for a family to love her. Her big words and bright spirits take her through many toils, trials, and temptations. Her romantic schemes make it nearly to...

Robin and 10 more 9 hours 31 minutes Anne of Green Gables and related works

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Biography & Autobiography

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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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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Hector Malot - Nobody's Boy

One day, French mason Jerome Barberin finds an abandoned baby boy. As the boy is wearing fine clothes, Barberin hopes that he is the son of rich parents who will reclaim him soon and offer a reward to Barberin for...

Elli and 9 more 9 hours 23 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Margaret Sidney - Five Little Peppers Abroad

This book is the next in the series of the Five Little Peppers, by Margaret Sidney, after Five Little Peppers and How They Grew and Five Little Peppers Midway. It continues the series where Ben, Polly, Joel, Davie,...

Elli and 15 more 8 hours 38 minutes

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General Fiction

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Rudyard Kipling - Light That Failed

This novel, first published in 1890, follows the life of Dick Heldar, a painter. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan or India. It was made into a 1916...

icyjumbo and 10 more 7 hours 46 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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William Makepeace Thackeray - Book of Snobs

The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write that work—My vocation is announced in terms of great eloquence—I show that the...

Julie VW and 19 more 7 hours 21 minutes

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Children's Fiction

Olive Beaupre Miller - In the Nursery of My Bookhouse

Full of delightful nursery rhymes, charming poems and engaging stories, folk and fairy tales, this is the first volume of the «My Bookhouse» series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume...

Snapdragon and 37 more 7 hours 15 minutes My Bookhouse Series

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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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