Jim Locke

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Biography & Autobiography

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John Hay - Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 10)

Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who were his personal secretaries during the American Civil War. Volume 10...

RussellEric and 6 more 9 hours 40 minutes Abraham Lincoln: A History in 10 Volumes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

446

Edmund Flagg - Edmond Dantès

«Edmond Dantès» the Sequel to Alexander Dumas' masterpiece, «The Count of Monte-Cristo,» is a novel that will delight, entertain and instruct all who read it. It has wonderful fascination, absorbing interest and rare...

Jim Locke and 5 more 9 hours 38 minutes

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Historical Fiction

424

Edmund Flagg - Monte-Cristo's Daughter

«Monte-Cristo's Daughter,» a wonderfully brilliant, original, exciting and absorbing novel, is the Sequel to «The Count of Monte-Cristo,» Alexander Dumas' masterwork, and the continuation and conclusion of that great...

Jim Locke 9 hours 37 minutes

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Romance

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Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler - Fuel of Fire

«Then was there war in the house of Baxendale. Guy had made up his mind to wed the fair daughter of the forester; while Sir Stephen and Dame Alice his wife had made up their minds — with equal firmness — that no son...

John and 1 more 9 hours 16 minutes

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School

469

Talbot Baines Reed - Cock-House at Fellsgarth

A classic English Public School story with all the usual suspects: unruly juniors, wise upper form boys, and an outcast. Summary by Von

Jim Locke 9 hours 15 minutes

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Short Stories

624

Alphonse Daudet - Monday Tales

This is a collection of short stories by Alphonse Daudet. The stories paint an incredibly vivid picture of life in continental Europe before the turn of the last century. The settings of the stories also take us all...

MaryAnn and 5 more 9 hours 12 minutes

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Family

429

Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing - Jan Of The Windmill

There were two storms: one within and one without. The windmiller's wife was starting to be very unhappy, and the rain was pouring down as fast as her tears. So her husband brought Jan, a neglected child, for her to...

Devorah Allen and 2 more 9 hours 10 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

543

Arthur Symons - Figures of Several Centuries

Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and critical wonder to the worlds of his subjects; Donne, Ibsen, Baudelaire and...

Jim Locke and 12 more 8 hours 59 minutes

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Memoirs

502

Harold Fielding Hall - Soul of a People

In The Soul of a People, Englishman H. Fielding explores the beliefs of the Burmese people. He offers an understandable, and yet thorough, explanation of Buddhism, and illustrates the many ways the people of Burma...

Carol Fullerton-Samsel and 7 more 8 hours 54 minutes

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Children's Fiction

507

Catherine Sinclair - Holiday House

Linette and 6 more 8 hours 23 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

448

Arthur Bingham Walkley - Pastiche and Prejudice

Arthur Bingham Walkley was an exceedingly popular critic, working as a drama critic at The Times alone for no less than 26 years, and writing for several other newspapers and privately besides that. This book of...

Ulrike Denis and 21 more 8 hours 9 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

507

Gertrude Stein - Three Lives

Three Lives tells the stories of three women from the same fictitious town of Bridgeport. The first story is of Anna, a servant to the wealthy, or those who seem to be wealthy. She finds herself taking on...

KHand and 3 more 7 hours 50 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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