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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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Single author

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Rainer Maria Rilke - Poems

A concise collection of poems translated from the great German poet Rilke into formal English verse. Although the translation may be freer than some modern texts, this selection, which spans early and later writings...

Eva Davis 1 hour 21 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams - One Among So Many

Adams' energy and drive can be seen through his large output of written work in his short lifetime. He often wrote quickly and did little revision, living as he did on the proceeds of his own work rather than with the...

Bruce Kachuk and 6 more 29 minutes

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Anthologies

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Elizabeth Jordan - Different Girls

This is a collection of the best short stories about girls published in Harper's Magazine from 1895 to 1906. The girls in these stories are not the typical 'girl' from late 19th century novels. They are..different....

BettyB and 5 more 6 hours 12 minutes

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Literary Criticism

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Thomas Alfred Spalding - Elizabethan Demonology

Elizabethan Demonology: An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, as It Was Generally Held during the Period of the Reformation, and the Times Immediately...

Eva Davis 4 hours 16 minutes

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Poetry

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Jane Eliza Coolidge Chapman - Easter Hymns

Lockwood, Brooks & Co. Have nearly ready the volume of “Easter Hymns” selected by Miss J.E.C. Chapman, an accomplished lady of Boston, and introduced by a note from her uncle, Rev. Dr. J.I.T. Coolidge. The hymns are...

Larry Wilson and 8 more 2 hours 21 minutes

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Poetry

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Kate Slaughter McKinney - Katydid's Poems

This is a volume of poems by Kate Slaughter McKinney, poet laureate of the State of Alabama of 1931, who often went by the pen-name Katydid. The poems are cute and amusing, children will enjoy them. — Summary by Carolin

Kirby Wheatland and 8 more 3 hours 8 minutes

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Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English

Poetry

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Sappho - Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English

Who shall strike the wax of mystery from those priceless amphoræ, and give to the unsophisticated nostrils of the average reader the ravishing bouquet of wine pressed in a garden in Mitylene, twenty-five centuries...

Eva Davis 1 hour 26 minutes

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Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup

Biography & Autobiography

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John Kendrick Bangs - Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup

Written by a fictitious first-person narrator, this book puts a humorous spin on encounters with several famous people of the time. «I set forth from my office in London upon my pilgrimage to the shrines of the...

Tom Penn and 7 more 2 hours 31 minutes

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Poetry

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Robert Browning - Easter Interpreted

Robert Browning is still well-known today as a distinguished English poet. His poetry is still widely read, recited, and taught in schools. In this little volume, Rose Porter has compiled a collection of his poems...

Larry Wilson and 3 more 23 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney - Oh, For a Home of Rest!

Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney was a Quaker minister who, when her husband Joseph John Gurney died in 1847, continued the labours of a traveling minister. She corresponded with Abraham Lincoln, who was found to have a...

Algy Pug and 14 more 25 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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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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