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Erotica

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Marie Stopes - Married Love

«Married Love» is one of the most famous 'sex education' manuals. First published in 1918, it sold tens of thousands of copies, and was one of the first publications to openly discuss issues such as variations in male...

David Lawrence and 7 more 3 hours 57 minutes

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Poetry

William Wordsworth - Microphone Showdown 2

This is a project which will allow readers and listeners to compare the recording quality of a wide variety of recording devices. It is a sequel to another project in which readers submitted readings of a poem on a...

TriciaG and 45 more 2 hours 35 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Charles B. Towns - Habits that Handicap

Habits that Handicap is one of three novels about alcoholism and drug addiction written by Charles B. Towns. Towns was an expert on alcoholism and drug addiction who helped draft drug control legislation in the...

Denny Sayers and 6 more 6 hours 42 minutes

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Twentieth Century Inventions: A Forecast

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George Sutherland - Twentieth Century Inventions: A Forecast

This work from 1901 predicts what technological developments will manifest in the twentieth century. The author, a technical journalist, presents ideas for inventions and new developments in the areas of power,...

Availle and 8 more 6 hours 42 minutes

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Science

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Charles Kingsley - Madam How and Lady Why

Did you ever wish you knew how to explain natural phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanoes to your children? Search no more, this book has all the answers (at least all the ones that were known in 1869) and gives...

alwpoe and 10 more 7 hours 38 minutes

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Modern (19th C)

Ethel T. Raymond - Chronicles of Canada Volume 17 - Tecumseh: A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People

Tecumseh was a leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy that opposed the United States during the War of 1812. He became a folk hero remembered by many Canadians for his defense of their country. (Summary...

Cate Barratt and 3 more 3 hours Chronicles of Canada Series

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Travel & Geography

John Muir - Travels in Alaska

In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded interest, for they enabled him to verify his theories of glacial action. Again and again he returned to this...

Esther and 9 more 9 hours 6 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Off on a Comet

The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. Some forty people of various nations and ages are condemned to a two-year-long journey on the comet. They form...

Patrick Wells and 14 more 11 hours 11 minutes

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General Fiction

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Jules Verne - Tribulations of a Chinaman in China

The rich and phlegmatic Kin-Fo loses his fortune and decides to die, but not before experiencing some strong emotions. He asks his friend Wang to kill him before a given date. Everything changes when Kin-Fo discovers...

Leni and 11 more 6 hours 59 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Topsy-Turvy

Topsy Turvy is a translation of Sans dessus dessous (1889). This anonymous translation was first published by J. G. Ogilvie (New York, 1890). We meet our old friends Barbicane and J.T. Maston from “Earth to the Moon”...

Anna Simon and 12 more 4 hours 27 minutes

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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and The Cenci

Biography & Autobiography

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and The Cenci

Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent scenes of a violent time. In some instances facts appear distorted out...

Neeru Iyer and 11 more 10 hours 17 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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New

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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