Eva Davis

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Epistolary Fiction

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Samuel Richardson - Pamela, Volume 2

Pamela, tells the story of a 15-year old maidservant named Pamela Andrews, whose country landowner master, Mr. B, makes unwanted advances towards her after the death of his mother. He abducts her, locks her up in one...

Michele Eaton and 13 more 23 hours

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World’s Story Volume I: China, Japan and the Islands of the Pacific

Historical Fiction

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Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume I: China, Japan and the Islands of the Pacific

This is the first volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art , edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature,...

Sonia and 26 more 18 hours 32 minutes World's Story

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Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends

Memoirs

435

Sidney Colvin - Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends

These are the letters of John Keats, as written to family, close friends and others during his brief, eventful years as an artist. (However, the editor chose to exclude love letters to Fanny Brawne, respecting their...

Nemo and 1 more 15 hours 33 minutes

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Romance

473

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Minister's Wooing

Harriet Beecher Stowe is today best known for her classic novel Uncle Tom's Cabin . However, that book was certainly not her only remarkable anti-slavery work. In The Minister's Wooing , Stowe takes the reader into...

J. M. Smallheer and 7 more 14 hours 10 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Mary Macleod - Shakespeare Story-Book

This book contains many of Shakespeare's most famous plays, retold for children. — Summary by kathrinee

Jason in Panama and 11 more 12 hours 24 minutes

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Poetry

474

Jean de La Fontaine - Fables of La Fontaine

Jean de la Fontaine's fables were very well-known all over Europe during his life, and are now slowly being rediscovered. This edition contains 240 fables or fairy tales and a biography of Jean de la Fontaine and...

RogerMathewson and 19 more 11 hours 57 minutes

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Lane that had no Turning, and Other Tales concerning the People of Pontiac

Short Stories

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Gilbert Parker - Lane that had no Turning, and Other Tales concerning the People of Pontiac

This is a collection of short stories by Gilbert Parker. Parker was a Canadian writer who wrote a number of bestsellers that had a lasting influence on Canadian literature, but whose importance for his time is now...

Michele Fry and 7 more 10 hours 25 minutes

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Literary Criticism

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William Hazlitt - Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

This famous Shakespearean exploration illuminates its plays through the frame of character, while also weighing theme, mood, structure and poetics. In it, 19th-century critic William Hazlitt unveils Shakespeare's...

Nemo and 1 more 10 hours 15 minutes

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Man who Understood Women, and Other Stories

Short Stories

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Leonard Merrick - Man who Understood Women, and Other Stories

This is a collection of 20 short stories by English novelist and playwright Leonard Merrick. The stories concern varied topics, and succeed to evoke a charming picture of England in the early 20th century. It is...

Kate Follis and 8 more 10 hours 14 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Albert Bigelow Paine - Life and Lillian Gish

An authorized biography of Lillian Gish, the renowned silent film star known in her heyday as the First Lady of American Cinema. Albert Bigelow Paine chronicles Gish's early life, her close relationship with her...

Tomas Peter and 11 more 10 hours 2 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

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H. A. Guerber - Story of Old France

The aim of this volume is to give a complete graphic account of the main features of the history of France to 1715 A.D., with as much additional illuminating detail as limited space permits. Besides outlines of the...

Kangaroo and 14 more 9 hours 57 minutes

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Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Volume 2

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Songling Pu - Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Volume 2

«Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio» or «Strange Tales of Liaozhai» is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical...

Nick J. Gold and 18 more 9 hours 50 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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