Jesse Zuba

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (version 2)

Biography & Autobiography

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Frederick Douglass - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (version 2)

Published in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself was written in response to critics who questioned the authenticity of the experiences Douglass drew on as a...

Jesse Zuba 4 hours 3 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - Henry D. Thoreau

A biography of the famous and popular poet-naturalist, author, philosopher, historian, written by a family friend who spent time with Thoreau almost daily during the last seven years of his life and who knew and...

Lynne T and 10 more 6 hours 55 minutes

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Literature in the Making, by Some of its Makers

Writing & Linguistics

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Joyce Kilmer - Literature in the Making, by Some of its Makers

This is a collection of 23 essays based on interviews conducted by Joyce Kilmer with some of the most famous authors of the time (1917). Kilmer's idea, as outlined in the Introduction, was that there is a deep divide...

BettyB and 10 more 5 hours 34 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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John Galsworthy - Complete Essays of John Galsworthy

This is a collection of essays by John Galsworthy. A multitude of subjects is covered, but the essays are connected by an artistic spirit, and they are written much more like short stories than in the classical style...

Pamela Nagami and 15 more 6 hours 41 minutes

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Essays

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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature (version 2)

First published anonymously in 1836, Nature marks the beginning both of Emerson’s literary career and the Transcendentalist movement. Asking why his generation “should not also enjoy an original relation to the...

Jesse Zuba 1 hour 47 minutes

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Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches

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Cotton Mather - Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches

Here are first hand accounts, published in 1692, of the infamous «Salem Witch Trials». In addition to Mather's interpretation of the Book of Revelations (which he calls «God's last letter to the people of earth»),...

Michele Fry and 9 more 9 hours 1 minute

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Walt Whitman - Song of the Broad-Axe - stanza 4

This Weekly Poem is an excerpt from Song of the Broad-axe (4th Stanza) by Walt Whitman, who was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and...

ashleighjane and 16 more 27 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Frank Puterbaugh Bachman - Great Inventors and Their Inventions

This book is about Great inventors and what they created. It has different stories like Alexander Bell, Wrights, Morse, Gutenberg, and Edison. ON August 17, 1807, a curious crowd of people in New York gathered at a...

PNWDAN509 and 5 more 5 hours 56 minutes

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Single author

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Nathan Haskell Dole - Early Poems

This is a volume of the early poems by James Russell Lowell, including a brief biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. — Summary by Carolin

Jesse Zuba and 20 more 3 hours 32 minutes

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Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (version 2)

Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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James Weldon Johnson - Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (version 2)

The story of a biracial man living in the deep south after the reconstruction era. He is young and talented. Yet, in order for him to avoid stigma, he has to pass as white. But would his sense of belonging and...

tiwo007 and 4 more 4 hours 46 minutes

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Sports Fiction

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Short Works on Sports Collection 01

A miscellany of poetry and short works of fact and fiction on the topic of sports from North America, Great Britain and Australasia. The collection includes pieces on baseball, cricket, lacrosse, cycling, athletics,...

Larry Wilson and 9 more 5 hours 3 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Samuel Johnson - Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson

This is a volume of selected essays by «the great master of reason» Samuel Johnson. The most famous exerpts from The Rambler, The Adventurer and The Idler are included, covering a vast range of topics. — Summary by...

Barbara Baker and 10 more 13 hours 21 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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