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Frank Lewis Dyer - Edison, His Life and Inventions
A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage battery, and the electric light. In the words of the authors, «It is designed in...
29 hours 42 minutes
Memoirs
936
Ernest Shackleton - South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
Shackleton's most famous expedition was planned to be an attempt to cross Antarctica from the Weddell Sea south of the Atlantic to the Ross Sea south of the Pacific, by way of the Pole. It set out from London on 1...
15 hours 33 minutes
Historical Fiction
1.1K
James Fenimore Cooper - Last of the Mohicans - A Narrative of 1757 (version 2)
This story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of from 500 to 1,500 unarmed Anglo-American troops, who had...
15 hours 25 minutes
Children's Fiction
1.1K
William Allan Neilson - Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales
The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, stories, and poems, both ancient and modern, suitable for boys and girls of...
14 hours 30 minutes
