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World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia

Historical Fiction

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Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia

This is the third volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art , edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature,...

Sonia and 23 more 16 hours 12 minutes World's Story

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Poetry

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George Meredith - Reading of Life, with Other Poems

This is a volume of poetry by George Meredith. The first four poems are the cycle A Circle of Life, the rest of the poems are miscellaneous collected poems. — Summary by Carolin

Michael L and 4 more 1 hour 49 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Frederick Trevor Hill - Lincoln, The Lawyer

This biography of Abraham Lincoln focuses on his practice as a lawyer. (Summary by MaryAnn)

Larry Wilson and 5 more 5 hours 22 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Sarah Doudney - Vanished Hand

Memories haunt Elsie Kilner at every turn. Kicked out of her family home, she finds a new abode in which she finds fragments of a diary. It begins with the words: «If I only knew that some one would be kind to Jamie»....

Maggie Mizzi and 4 more 4 hours 3 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Rosa Nouchette Carey - Mollie's Prince

Mr. Ward is a failing artist. His two daughters, Mollie and Waveney, are very close. However when the financial situation becomes insufferable, and Waveney has to enter service, the sisters have to part for the first...

Jim Locke and 3 more 14 hours 25 minutes

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Chronicles of America Volume 04 - Crusaders of New France

History

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William Bennett Munro - Chronicles of America Volume 04 - Crusaders of New France

The previous volumes in the Chronicles of America series placed Spain and England at the fore in the discovery and development of the New World. This book focuses on the role that France played in America's journey to...

Jim Locke 5 hours 10 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Julia Kavanagh - Pearl Fountain, and Other Fairy Tales

This is a little volume of fairy Tales by Irish novelists Bridget and Julia Kavanagh. The eleven stories are old-fashioned and original. — Summary by Carolin

AnnaLisa Bodtker and 6 more 4 hours 59 minutes

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Sagas

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Anonymous - Mabinogion, Volume 2

This is the second of three volumes of The Mabinogion, a collection of some of the earliest tales from the British Isles. Lady Charlotte Guest translated the stories in Volume 2 from a 14th-century Welsh manuscript,...

jolynne and 1 more 3 hours 24 minutes

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General Fiction

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Emma Francis Brooke - Transition

Honora Klaper is beautiful, distinguished, smart, and charming. A woman who turns heads. She is on an errand. No, it is not an errand to get a man. No, it is not an errand to make money. It is a revolutionary errand:...

Jim Locke 9 hours 46 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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William Dean Howells - Heroines of Fiction

This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bronte, Thackeray, and others. These studies of nineteenth-century literature...

Jim Locke 17 hours 40 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Caroline Abbot Stanley - Order Number 11

General Order No. 11 has been issued by Union General Thomas Ewing in 1863. The goal was to deprive pro-Confederates in western Missouri of power and resources. The consequences are far reaching, still affecting the...

VfkaBT and 4 more 12 hours 57 minutes

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Nature

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Birds and Nature, Vol. XII, No 1, June 1902

«Birds and Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes and factual descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with...

Larry Wilson and 7 more 2 hours 13 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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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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