Garth Burton

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James Whitcomb Riley - In A Box

James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that Riley authored, the majority are in dialect....

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 14 minutes

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George Pope Morris - Woodman, Spare that Tree!

George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter. In addition to his publishing and editorial work, Morris was popular as a poet and songwriter; especially well-known was his poem-turned-song...

Angi Bridges and 10 more 18 minutes

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Archibald Lampman - God-Speed to the Snow

Archibald Lampman FRSC was a Canadian poet. «He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets.» The Canadian Encyclopedia says that...

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George MacDonald - Bedtime

George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. His writings have been cited as a...

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Robert Nisbet Bain - Cossack Fairy Tales

This is a volume of fairy tales and folk tales from the Cossack people, compiled and translated by Robert Nisbet Bain. The tales are special as most children will not have heard them a hundred times before, and as...

Adam Wilkans and 10 more 6 hours 27 minutes

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John Greenleaf Whittier - Mystery

John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the Fireside Poets, he was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns....

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Michael Earls - Sailor

Michael Earls, S.J. was a Jesuit priest, as well as a writer, poet, teacher, and administrator. — Summary by Wikipedia

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Eleven Possible Cases

This book brings together eleven stories, each a case of intrigue where more is going on than seems at first. — Summary by A. Gramour

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Nature

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Nature and Art, Vol. VIII, No 1, June 1900

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

realisticspeakers and 6 more 2 hours 29 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Eugene Field - Fairy Glee

This poem is taken from Volume X, A Library of American Literature: An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891. Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889

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Literary Collections

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Ontario Readers: Fourth Book

A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry and Prose by well known authors of the time. — Summary by David Lawrence

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Jean McKishnie Blewett - Christmas Conversion

Jean McKishnie Blewett was a Canadian journalist, author and poet. Blewett was a regular contributor to The Globe, a Toronto newspaper and in 1898 became editor of its Homemakers Department. In 1919, assisted by...

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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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