Greg Giordano

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Essays & Short Works

H. G. Wells - Certain Personal Matters

Although best known for his works of science fiction, social commentary and history, H.G. Wells here gives us humorous and light-hearted pieces on a wide variety of intriguing topics from chess to death. Each essay is...

Foon and 11 more 6 hours 23 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Double: A Petersburg Poem

This is the story of a mild-mannered civil servant, Mr. Golyadkin, who begins to see his «doppelganger» appearing in his life (at work, in society, etc). This «double» has all the qualities that the protagonist lacks....

Greg Giordano and 1 more 6 hours 20 minutes

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History

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Walter George Bell - Unknown London

Herein you will find much concerning those things which everybody knows about, but nobody knows — the things you have known about since childhood, and have been content to leave them at that, knowing little of what...

Maria Kasper and 1 more 6 hours 20 minutes

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Christianity - Other

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George MacDonald - Miracles of Our Lord

Actions, it is often said, speak louder than words. But in the life of Christ — as George MacDonald shows — both spoke with an equal volume. Much attention is often devoted to what Jesus said while He was on earth,...

Jordan and 5 more 6 hours 10 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Jack London - Revolution, and other Essays

A collection of 13 essays written between 1900 and 1908, published in 1910. The lead essay, «Revolution», outlines how and why London renounced capitalism as a failed social system and declared himself an active...

Michele Fry and 9 more 6 hours 7 minutes

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Single Author Collections

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Susan Coolidge - Just Sixteen

A collection of short stories from the author of the What Katy Did series, for an audience ranging from younger to older children — and enjoyable for adults too! They vary in style — fairy tales, humorous sketches,...

Jennifer Dorr and 11 more 6 hours 6 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Uncle's Dream

Uncle’s Dream by Fyodor Dostoyevsky was written following his five year exile to Siberia where he was sent to serve in a hard labor camp. Following what could only have been a harrowing and harsh existence in...

Greg Giordano 6 hours 4 minutes

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Poetry

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Maurine and Other Poems

This is a volume of earlier poetry by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Title poem, Maurine , is a narrative poem about the tragedy and happiness of the life of Maurine. Besides that long narrative poem, this collection also...

Greg Giordano and 7 more 5 hours 59 minutes

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Kidnapping of President Lincoln, and Other War Detective Stories

Detective Fiction

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Joel Chandler Harris - Kidnapping of President Lincoln, and Other War Detective Stories

While detective work always makes for exciting stories, the circumstances under which the detective works play a huge role in the thrill. The stories in this collection follow detectives as they unravel mysteries in...

Maria Melodia Queri and 5 more 5 hours 55 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Robert Lynd - Book of This and That

From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as stupidity, Christmas, spring fashions, and the beauty of statistics. — Summary...

Tom Penn and 11 more 5 hours 45 minutes

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History of the Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco

Modern (20th C)

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Frank Aitken - History of the Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco

Early in the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the San Francisco area was shaken by a massive earthquake. Over the course of the next four days, fires spread through large swaths of the city, started by broken gas...

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Washington Irving - Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey

Although this book may not have the immediately recognizable title of, say, “Rip Van Winkle” or “Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” this book deserves its place among the pantheon of Washington Irving’s classics. Irving, who...

Greg Giordano 5 hours 38 minutes

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New

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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