J. M. Smallheer

227 books

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General Fiction

519

George Sand - Devil's Pool

George Sand (the pen name of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin 1804-1876) is famous for flaunting the conventions of behavior expected of women of her standing in France at the time and for her numerous romantic liaisons...

J. M. Smallheer 3 hours 35 minutes

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection Vol. 001

Single author

529

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection Vol. 001

A collection to celebrate Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 200th birthday, on 27th February, 2007.

Peter Yearsley and 8 more 1 hour 3 minutes

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Chemistry

444

Justus von Liebig - Familiar Letters on Chemistry

Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) was a German chemist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry and is known for his discovery of nitrogen as an essential plant nutrient. These letters “were...

J. M. Smallheer and 5 more 4 hours 12 minutes

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Detective Fiction

483

Mary Roberts Rinehart - Circular Staircase

Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was a prolific American writer of popular mysteries. The Circular Staircase was originally published in 1908 and includes all the elements of the classic whodunit – mysterious...

J. M. Smallheer and 9 more 7 hours 40 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

507

John Buchan - Greenmantle

Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr...

RedToby and 7 more 9 hours 9 minutes

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Short Stories

512

Sherwood Anderson - Winesburg, Ohio

Published in 1919, and listed on the Modern Library roster of the 20th century's 100 greatest novels in English, Winesburg, Ohio presents a series of loosely related character studies of the inhabitants of a...

Stewart Wills and 20 more 7 hours 21 minutes

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Detective Fiction

510

Edgar Wallace - Clue of the Twisted Candle

Well-known mystery writer John Lexman is charged with murder and sent to Broadmoor Prison. His friend T.X., head of a special branch of Scotland Yard, tries to prove his innocence. (Summary by Gesine)

Lizzie Driver and 12 more 5 hours 54 minutes

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General Fiction

591

Henry James - Portrait of a Lady Vol 1

The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 and then as a book in 1881. It is the story of a spirited young American...

Clarica and 12 more 12 hours 44 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

646

George Eliot - Middlemarch

The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Rosamond Vincy's finishing school education is a foil to Dorothea Brooke's...

Guntar and 16 more 33 hours 1 minute

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Chronicles of Canada Volume 05 - Seigneurs of Old Canada: A Chronicle of New World Feudalism

Early Modern

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William Bennett Munro - Chronicles of Canada Volume 05 - Seigneurs of Old Canada: A Chronicle of New World Feudalism

It was during one of her proud and prosperous eras that France began her task of creating an empire beyond the Atlantic. At no time, indeed, was she better equipped for the work. No power of Western Europe since the...

Esther and 5 more 3 hours 20 minutes

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*Non-fiction

577

Frank Lewis Dyer - Edison, His Life and Inventions

A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage battery, and the electric light. In the words of the authors, «It is designed in...

Justin S Barrett and 21 more 29 hours 42 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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John Muir - Mountains of California

John Muir (1838–1914) was one of the first modern preservationists. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, and wildlife, especially in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, were read...

Robert Garrison and 10 more 10 hours 19 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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