Jacob Paul Starr

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Religion

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Joseph Smith, Jr. - Book of Mormon

The Book of Mormon is a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible, used by Latter Day Saints. It is a record of God’s dealings with the ancient inhabitants of the Americas. The book was written by ancient...

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Sermons on Several Occasions, Second Series

Literary Collections

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John Wesley - Sermons on Several Occasions, Second Series

John Wesley, along with his brother Charles, are credited with founding the Methodist denomination. «The following Sermons contain the substance of what I have been preaching for between eight and nine years last...

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Essays & Short Works

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Insomnia Collection Vol. 002

Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. However, it is hoped that at least one from the range of topics here presented...

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Poetry

Elias Lönnrot - Kalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland (Crawford Translation)

This is the epic of Finland. It is the combined folk tales of the Finnish nation starting with the birth of the world from the egg of a seabird and continuing to the birth of the Kaleva District, the lands of...

Kyle Raub and 14 more 15 hours 27 minutes

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Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 06

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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H. P. Nichols - Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 06

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No...

K.G.Cross and 16 more 12 hours 45 minutes Thousand Nights and a Night

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Travel & Geography

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 05

National Geographic Magazine Volume 5, articles published in 1893. Contents: Discoverers of America: Annual Address by the President, Gardiner G. Hubbard The Movements of our Population Rainfall Types of the...

MaryAnn and 12 more 12 hours National Geographic Magazines

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History

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John Reed - Insurgent Mexico

In the autumn of 1913 John Reed was sent to Mexico by the Metropolitan Magazine to report the Mexican Revolution. He shared the perils of Pancho Villa's army for four months, present with Villa's Constitutional Army...

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Mayfair Magician; a Romance of Criminal Science

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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George Griffith - Mayfair Magician; a Romance of Criminal Science

Our narrator, a researcher, finds himself snowed in at a Scottish prison. The resident doctor, an observer of criminal psychology, offers him hospitality and entertainment in the form of this story, an account of the...

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The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly and Other Stories

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Rosa Mulholland - The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly and Other Stories

This is a collection of 10 original ghost stories by Rosa Mulholland, published in 1880. Some only one section long; others spread out over 3 or 4 sections. Enjoy! Summary by Carolin

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Humorous Fiction

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P. G. Wodehouse - Inimitable Jeeves

When either Bertie Wooster or his friends found themselves in the soup or in dangerous proximity to the tureen, the instinct of one and all was to turn to Jeeves — Bertie's Man. He understood human nature, especially...

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Vachel Lindsay - Art of the Moving Picture

«This 1922 book by poet and sometime cultural critic Vachel Lindsay might have been the first to treat the then-new medium of moving pictures as an art form, one that was potentially as rich, complex, mysterious as...

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Short Ghost and Horror Collection 033

A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder. You...

Steve Mann and 12 more 7 hours 6 minutes Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections

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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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