Jim Locke

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World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome

Historical Fiction

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Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome

This is the fourth 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 22 more 16 hours 43 minutes World's Story

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Epistolary Fiction

Elizabeth Griffith - History Of Lady Barton

This is the story of the three Cleveland siblings: Fanny, the innocent yet very sympathetic sister; Louisa, the strong willed sister whose miserable marriage to Sir William is the center of the novel; and Sir George...

Beth Thomas and 4 more 13 hours 25 minutes

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Twentieth Century Negro Literature or A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro

Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Daniel Wallace Culp - Twentieth Century Negro Literature or A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro

The object of this book is… (1) To enlighten the uninformed white people on the intellectual ability of the Negro. (2) To give to those, who are interested in the Negro race, a better idea of the extent to which he...

Devorah Allen and 13 more 32 hours 6 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Asphodel

Like the Asphodel, a plant which grows far away from England, Daphne grows far away from home. In her first chance of freedom, at the age of almost 17, she finds an opportunity to forget for a while… Forget that her...

Jim Locke and 3 more 19 hours 50 minutes

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Romance

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George Gissing - Our Friend The Charlatan

Dice Lashmore will do everything he can in in his quest to become rich. The key is, of course, finding a rich wife. This book describes his numerous courtships of women. It also describes the moral decline of a man...

Jim Locke 13 hours 43 minutes

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Biography of an American Bondman, By His Daughter

Biography & Autobiography

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Josephine Brown - Biography of an American Bondman, By His Daughter

Josephine Brown's Biography of an American Bondsman faithfully follows the trajectory of her father's life as previously explored in his own narratives. She distills and summarizes the major revelatory moments of his...

Jim Locke 2 hours 32 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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Anthologies

Otto Leland Bohanan - Book of American Negro Poetry

The Book of American Negro Poetry is one of the earliest and most essential anthologies of African-American verse ever brought to print. Edited by writer and diplomat James Weldon Johnson, this collection was...

Jim Locke and 9 more 5 hours 4 minutes

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Chronicles of America Volume 05 - Pioneers of the Old South

*Non-fiction

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Mary Johnston - Chronicles of America Volume 05 - Pioneers of the Old South

In this remarkably detailed and sweeping fifth installment, Mary Johnston takes us from discoveries and settlements to the evolution into the first colonies, specifically Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina,...

Jim Locke 5 hours 37 minutes

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Family

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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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Christianity - Other

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Jonathan Edwards - Freedom of the Will

As religion is the great business, for which we are created, and on which our happiness depends; and as religion consists in an intercourse between ourselves and our Maker; and so has its foundation in God's nature...

Philip Naudus and 1 more 13 hours 3 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Wilhelm Hauff - Swanhilde, and other Fairy Tales

Wilhelm Hauff was a German poet and novelist, perhaps best known for his fairy tales (Märchen). Some of his stories, such as the Caliph Stork found in this volume, are popular in German-speaking countries to this day....

thestorygirl and 8 more 6 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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