Jim Locke

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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 2: Urbain Grandier

True Crime

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 2: Urbain Grandier

This is the dramatic story of Urbain Grandier, a catholic priest, who had a reputation to rival that of Casanova, which ultimately led to his destruction. He was accused of witchcraft after a series of accusations...

JohannC and 4 more 4 hours 8 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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Chronicles of America Volume 01 - The Red Man's Continent

Early Modern

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Ellsworth Huntington - Chronicles of America Volume 01 - The Red Man's Continent

Characteristics of the peoples and environment of the earliest stages of America. — Summary by Jim Locke Group: Chronicles of America Series

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Christmas Hirelings

It is the Christmas season once again and things are, well, boring for the adults at Penlyon Castle. "...if somehow or other I had a pack of children belonging to me, I would keep Christmas with the best — keep...

Patti Cunningham and 2 more 3 hours 55 minutes

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Poetry

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Charles Kingsley - Andromeda, and Other Poems

This is a collection of the most famous poems of Charles Kingsley. Kingsley was an extremely versatile man, Wikipedia lists him as «broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social...

Jim Locke and 7 more 3 hours 40 minutes

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Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex

Psychology

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Sigmund Freud - Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex

In this little book Freud discusses three areas of human sexuality: 1. Sexual pervisons or abberations. In this essay, Freud concludes that «a disposition to perversions is an original and universal disposition of...

Jim Locke and 2 more 3 hours 32 minutes

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Poetry

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William Morris - Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems

This is a volume of early narrative poems by William Morris, first published in 1858. While at the time of writing the most important stages of William Morris' career are still ahead of him, his ideas are already...

Peter Tucker and 4 more 3 hours 31 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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Humorous Fiction

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Barry Pain - Problem Club

The Problem Club is an infamous London Club which meets once a month to discuss a given problem. The problems have nothing to do with mathematics, but are social problems, in the broadest possible sense of the word....

Foon and 9 more 3 hours 20 minutes

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Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects

Animals

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Edward Saunders - Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects

An overview of bees and stinging insects — Summary by Larry Wilson

Larry Wilson and 11 more 2 hours 58 minutes

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Single author

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Walter Crane - Renascence: A Book of Verse

Walter Crane is better known as an artist and illustrator of children’s books. His illustrations defined a whole genre which influenced the field for many years. He was also involved in various socialist causes and...

Larry Wilson and 8 more 2 hours 40 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Richard Barnum - Slicko, the Jumping Squirrel

The Squirrel family lived half-way up a tall tree in their cozy little home, lined with soft, dried leaves and white, fluffy cotton. Slicko and her siblings are getting jumping lessons today from Mr. Squirrel. Slicko...

snarkychaser and 6 more 2 hours 33 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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