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Satire

506

William Dean Howells - Traveller from Altruria

Set in the early 1890s, at a fashionable summer resort somewhere on the East Coast of the United States, this book tells the story of Mr. Twelvemough, an author who has been selected to function as host to a visitor...

Foon and 4 more 7 hours 36 minutes

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Sagas

432

R. Eivind - Finnish Legends

One dark winter's day in the north of Finland, Father Mikko seeks shelter in an isolated cabin till a storm abates. After dinner the family sit around the fire, and the daughter asks him to tell them «all the stories...

Sonia and 6 more 4 hours 35 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

465

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Slave In The Dismal Swamp

This little poem, with it's masterful choice of heavy-laden words, and great alliteration that sounds like a drumbeat, or a heartbeat, and rolls off the tongue, conveys much horror in a very few words. Longfellow...

Algy Pug and 12 more 23 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

383

Michael Field - Visiting Stars

Michael Field was a pseudonym used for the poetry and verse drama of Katharine Harris Bradley (27 October 1846 – 26 September 1914) and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper (12 January 1862 – 13 December 1913). As...

Algy Pug and 12 more 16 minutes

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Nature

490

Birds and Nature, Vol. XI, No 5, May 1902

«Birds and Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes and factual descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with...

Larry Wilson and 10 more 1 hour 56 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication, Story 1

Action & Adventure Fiction

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R. M. Ballantyne - Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication, Story 1

In this first story in Freaks on the Fells, Mr Sudberry, a successful London merchant takes his family on a Scottish highlands vacation. Over the course of the summer the family has lots of exciting adventures near...

AnnaLisa Bodtker and 7 more 5 hours 43 minutes

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Animals & Nature

439

Arthur Scott Bailey - Tale of Jimmy Rabbit

From his Tuck-Me-In series, Arthur Scott Bailey wrote many «Tales» books about animals and birds to be read to children for bed-time stories. This story is about Jimmy Rabbit and his friends (who are focused on in...

Lynda Marie Neilson and 6 more 1 hour 34 minutes

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Poetry

420

Thomas Carew - Song: Eternity of Love Protested

Thomas Carew (pronounced «Carey») (1595 — 1640) was one of the Cavalier poets, a group associated with the unfortunate King Charles I, who was a notable connoisseur of poetry. Other poets in this school included...

Algy Pug and 18 more 22 minutes

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Single Author Collections

488

Joyce Emmerson Muddock - Stories Weird and Wonderful

A collection of tales written by J.E. Muddock. All these stories are dark in atmosphere and subject matter.

Colleen McMahon and 12 more 11 hours 33 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

502

Edgar Allan Poe - Haunted Palace

«The Haunted Palace» originally issued in the Baltimore American Museum for April, 1888, was subsequently embodied in that much admired tale, «The Fall of the House of Usher,» and published in it in Burton's...

Algy Pug and 16 more 45 minutes

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Poetry

544

Ignatius Brennan - Humorous Poems

This is a collection of fun poems by West Virginia poet M. Ignatius Brennan. In his poems, the poet makes fun of the people in his surroundings, and the society in which he lived. In most instances his humor is...

BettyB and 21 more 6 hours 37 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

457

Wilhelm Hauff - Swanhilde, and other Fairy Tales

Wilhelm Hauff was a German poet and novelist, perhaps best known for his fairy tales (Märchen). Some of his stories, such as the Caliph Stork found in this volume, are popular in German-speaking countries to this day....

thestorygirl and 8 more 6 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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