Gillian Hendrie

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Henry Mayhew - London Labour and the London Poor Volume II

Subtitled, «A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.» «The history of a people from the lips of the people themselves… their...

Gillian Hendrie 62 hours 12 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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George W. M. Reynolds - Mysteries of London Vol. III

The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England, published in four volumes. This is the third volume. Initially serialized in weekly installments, they were the forerunners of today's soap...

Lynne T and 24 more 46 hours 11 minutes

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George W. M. Reynolds - Mysteries of London Vol. IV

The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England, published in four volumes. This is the fourth and final volume. Initially serialized in weekly installments, they were the forerunners of...

Jim Locke and 20 more 45 hours 55 minutes

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Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments

Medical

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Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments - Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments

Researchers in the United States have performed thousands of human radiation experiments to determine the effects of atomic radiation and radioactive contamination on the human body. Most of these tests were...

realisticspeakers and 12 more 37 hours 51 minutes United States Government Reports

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Philosophy

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William Turner - History of Philosophy

The History of Philosophy is the exposition of philosophical opinions and of systems and schools of philosophy. It includes the study of the lives of philosophers, the inquiry into the mutual connection of schools and...

Leni and 22 more 27 hours 18 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Charles Reade - It Is Never Too Late to Mend

A ruthless squire becomes obsessed with a younger woman and conspires against her lover, George Fielding, so that the squire can win her. With the squire's financial pressure turned up on his family, George goes to...

Gillian Hendrie and 14 more 26 hours 47 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Four and Twenty Fairy Tales

This is a collection of French fairy tales by different famous authors. Included in this collection are such famous tales as Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, but also tales which are now not as well-known but closely...

Jason in Panama and 16 more 22 hours 55 minutes

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Romance

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Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Mary Anerley

It is 1801, in the wild and rugged country that is northern England. A local Squire has died but his manor, Scargate Hall, is left to two sisters, Philippa and Eliza, while the squire's son is disinherited. The family...

Lynne T and 10 more 20 hours 24 minutes

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Cooking

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Alexis Soyer - Pantropheon

Soyer was a 'celebrity chef', devising innovations such as water-cooled refrigerators and adjustable temperature ovens. He developed many popular recipes and catered for 2000 guests at Queen Victoria's coronation...

Lynne T and 11 more 17 hours 36 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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William Henry Giles Kingston - Three Midshipmen

This is the start of a series of four books following three friends through their career in the navy. Terence, Jack and Alick first meet at a boarding school, and become fast friends, not least because together they...

EMBischoff and 11 more 17 hours 16 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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George Walter Thornbury - Haunted London

London: one of the oldest and most populous cities in the world. Surely it holds a few secrets within its ancient walls and the stories of ghostly presences abound.

Lynne T and 10 more 17 hours 9 minutes

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Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 03

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Anonymous - Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 03

The third of four volumes of Middle Eastern tales, originally written in Arabic. Scheherazade tries to prolong her husband's interest in her — and therefore her life — by telling her tales in installments. — Summary...

Gillian Hendrie 15 hours 59 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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