James Christopher

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Charles Dickens - Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

The action takes place in London, with excursions to Devon, Yorkshire, and Portsmouth, as we follow the adventures of the eponymous hero. Nicholas is forced to unwelcome employment to help secure support for his...

Czechchris and 18 more 34 hours

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The 9/11 Commission - 9/11 Commission Report

9/11 Commission Report, formally titled Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, is the official report of the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks. It was...

Sam Stinson and 17 more 23 hours 19 minutes United States Government Reports

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Sir Walter Scott - Rob Roy

Rob Roy is a historical novel by Walter Scott. It is narrated by Frank Osbaldistone, the son of an English merchant who travels first to the North of England, and subsequently to the Scottish Highlands to collect a...

Lizzie Driver and 13 more 21 hours 3 minutes

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Romance

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Lyndon Orr - Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion

«Famous Affinities of History» is a book of passion-filled accounts of the most famous love affairs of history. The stories of Cleopatra, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx,...

James Christopher and 13 more 14 hours 57 minutes

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Performing Arts

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P. T. Barnum - Humbugs of the World

P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witchcraft, religious humbugs, money manias, adventurers, personal...

Barry Eads and 20 more 12 hours 48 minutes

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Philosophy

Adam Smith - Theory of Moral Sentiments (First Edition)

«How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from...

Nikki Sullivan and 14 more 12 hours 44 minutes

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Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics

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Oliver Lodge - Pioneers of Science

This book takes its origin in a course of lectures on the history and progress of Astronomy arranged for Sir Oliver Lodge in the year 1887. The first part of this book is devoted to the biographies and discoveries of...

Availle and 12 more 11 hours 14 minutes

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 045

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 045: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Mike Harris and 6 more 10 hours 28 minutes Short Story Collections

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Published 1900 onward

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William John Locke - Red Planet

Set during WWI in England, The Red Planet is a rich tale about the life in a little English town from the point of view of Major Duncan Meredyth, a disabled veteran of the Boer Wars. As he struggles to keep his life...

Ruth Golding and 9 more 10 hours 13 minutes

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Science

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J. Arthur Thomson - Outline of Science, Vol 1

The Outline of Science, Volume 1 was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects ranging from astronomy to biology to elementary physics in clear,...

James Christopher and 8 more 9 hours 59 minutes The Outline of Science

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Science Fiction

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Short Science Fiction Collection 048

Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The...

Lynne T and 11 more 9 hours 57 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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J. Arthur Thomson - Outline of Science, Vol 2

The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects ranging from astronomy to biology to elementary physics in clear, concise and...

Availle and 7 more 8 hours 58 minutes The Outline of Science

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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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