Jim Locke

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Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children

Children's Fiction

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Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children

From the preface of the book: «To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by Negro writers, which colored children could read with interest and pleasure and in which they could find a...

Diana Schmidt and 3 more 6 hours 32 minutes

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Memoirs

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Caroline Cowles Richards Clarke - Village Life in America

A diary of a young school girl in Canandaigua, New York during the Civil War. (Summary by MaryElizabeth)

Mary-Elizabeth Arndt and 7 more 5 hours 39 minutes

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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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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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Fantastic Fiction

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Joseph Conrad - Inheritors

The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story (1901) is a quasi-science fiction novel on which Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad collaborated. It looks at society's mental evolution and what is gained and lost in the process....

John Burlinson and 4 more 7 hours 10 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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John Hay - Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 4)

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 4...

Jim Locke and 4 more 14 hours 8 minutes Abraham Lincoln: A History in 10 Volumes

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General Fiction

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Henry James - Tragic Muse

Art or politics, this is the question Nick Dormer dealls with in the course of this novel. Mirian Ruth, an aspiring actress, is the «tragic muse» of the title. Her concerns are a bit different: would proper society...

shihping and 5 more 23 hours 15 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

Frederick James Furnivall - Shakespeare: Life and Work

William Shakespeare: actor, poet, playwright. He is often called England's greatest writer, the Bard of Avon, a national treasure. But who was he? An average boy, born to an average family of the period; a romantic...

Lynne T and 3 more 7 hours 36 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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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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Published 1900 onward

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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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Laws (version 2)

Laws (Greek: Νόμοι) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having failed in his effort in Syracuse on the island of Sicily to guide a tyrant's...

Jim Locke 25 hours 33 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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1916: First Chapters Collection

These are first chapters to books first published in 1916. Readers, following is a tentative list culled from Wikipedia's article on the year in Literature; most of the works are to be found on Project Gutenberg. —...

John Burlinson and 9 more 14 hours 5 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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