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Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1

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Havelock Ellis - Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1

The first of six volumes, this volume covers in extensive detail the topics of «The Evolution of Modesty», «The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity», and «Auto-Eroticism». Written as an anthropological and psychological...

Tim Ferreira and 12 more 12 hours 57 minutes

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Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a nineteenth-century German philosopher. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, using a distinctive German language...

Chris Masterson and 14 more 12 hours 40 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Andrew Lang - Yellow Fairy Book

«Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's „Coloured“ Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of...

Sarah Jennings and 23 more 11 hours 23 minutes Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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General Fiction

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George du Maurier - Trilby

Trilby, published in 1894, fits into the gothic horror genre which was undergoing a revival during the Fin de siècle and is one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin...

Christian Al-Kadi and 7 more 11 hours 12 minutes

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Political Science

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John Locke - Two Treatises of Civil Government

The Two Treatises of Civil Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise is an extended attack on Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha , which argued for...

Philippa and 6 more 11 hours 4 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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Walt Whitman - Specimen Days

Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, espeically his experience serving as a nurse during the Civil War and travelling around America.

Sue Anderson and 12 more 11 hours 4 minutes

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 2

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 2

In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in...

Jc Guan and 10 more 10 hours 29 minutes Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

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Antiquity

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Herodotus - Herodotus' Histories Vol 1

The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histories tell the story of the war between the Persian Empire and the Greek...

Graham Redman 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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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Dorothy Scarborough - Famous Modern Ghost Stories

An entertaining selection of «modern» ghost stories selected «to include specimens of a few of the distinctive types of modern ghosts, as well as to show the art of individual stories.» Sure to please the love...

J. M. Smallheer and 12 more 9 hours 45 minutes

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Der Ling Yu - Two Years in the Forbidden City

THE author of the following narrative has peculiar qualifications for her task. She is a daughter of Lord Yu Keng, a member of the Manchu White Banner Corps, and one of the most advanced and progressive Chinese...

Jc Guan 9 hours 35 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Gaston Leroux - Mystery of the Yellow Room

This crime novel was possibly the first to involve a 'locked room mystery', in which an attempted murder takes place, but with no obvious way for the perpetrator to have escaped. The author, Gaston Leroux, is better...

Jc Guan and 10 more 8 hours 22 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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