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Old New Zealand: Being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times

Biography & Autobiography

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Frederick Edward Maning - Old New Zealand: Being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times

Introduction to Old New Zealand Philip Steer Victoria University February 2004 Frederick Edward Maning is best known as an author, but he was also at times a trader and a judge of the Native Land Court. He was...

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Biography & Autobiography

760

Arthur Octavius Kitson - Life of Captain James Cook

“In publishing a popular edition of my work, Captain James Cook, R.N., F.R.S., it has, of course, been necessary to condense it, but care has been taken to omit nothing of importance, and at the same time a few slight...

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Biography & Autobiography

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Millicent Garrett Fawcett - Some Eminent Women of our Times

Written by Millicent Garrett, a noted British feminist, suffragist and intellectual writer, this volume is comprised of short biographical sketches of 23 influential women from Jane Austen and Elizabeth Barrett...

Pamela Nagami and 13 more 8 hours 47 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Sylvanus Cobb, Jr - Smuggler of King's Cove

Young Percy Maitland is a naval pilot and guides his late father's brig to safety, thereby saving the ship, her crew and cargo despite being pursued by the King's excise collectors. But has his father's successor...

Phil Splendid and 8 more 6 hours 24 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Èmile

Emile, or On Education or Émile, or Treatise on Education (French: Émile, ou De l’éducation) was published in 1762 in French and German and in 1763 in English. The significance of Rousseau in education as well as in...

Anne and 2 more 28 hours 51 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians

Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings may have influenced them. These short essays are part biography and part...

John Burlinson and 9 more 7 hours 55 minutes Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great

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Short works

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Richard Wilson - Russian Storybook

Reverend Richard Wilson went to the heart of Russia to find stories from the eastern outposts of Christianity, untouched by the renaissance or reformation. He found the nature of the stories quite different from those...

Lynne T and 5 more 6 hours 23 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Harriet Beecher Stowe - Oldtown Folks

1870's rural Massachusetts communities became famous as “Oldtown” in Harriet Beecher Stowe's 7th novel and national bestseller. Based partially on her husband Rev. Calvin Stowe's childhood memories and other old...

Michele Fry and 6 more 22 hours 46 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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George Alexander Fischer - Beethoven, A Character Study

A book of the life of the German Composer, Beethoven. — Summary by Jessie Yun

Denise Nordell and 9 more 7 hours 14 minutes

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War & Military

Mary Roberts Rinehart - Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front

A personal account of the American author's visit to Europe in January 1915 while a war correspondent in Belgium for The Saturday Evening Post. She writes: «War is not two great armies meeting in a clash and frenzy of...

Mary in Arkansas and 11 more 10 hours 27 minutes

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History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 3

Middle Ages/Middle History

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Henry Charles Lea - History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 3

The 3rd volume of Lea's monumental work on the Spanish Inquisition. This volume covers torture practices; the trial process; punishments; Jews, Moriscos, and Protestants; and censorship. — Summary by Sienna

Larry Wilson and 11 more 25 hours 8 minutes

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Single Author Collections

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Saki - Chronicles of Clovis

This is the third collection of short stories by Saki, following on from “Reginald” and “Reginald in Russia”. Although some of the stories have characters that do not appear elsewhere in the collection, many of them...

Anna Simon and 14 more 6 hours 9 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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