Jim Locke

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Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century

Travel & Geography

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W. H. Davenport Adams - Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century

The nineteenth century saw the expansion in popularity of travel among the wealthy. Add to this the independence more women were enjoying as they were released from work in the home, and we have the recipe for some...

Ellies and 10 more 12 hours 30 minutes

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World’s Story Volume II: India, Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine

Historical Fiction

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Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume II: India, Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine

This is the second 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 17 hours 57 minutes World's Story

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Chronicles of America Volume 03 - Elizabethan Sea-Dogs

History

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William Wood - Chronicles of America Volume 03 - Elizabethan Sea-Dogs

Citizen, colonist, pioneer! These three words carry the history of the United States back to its earliest form in 'the New World called America.' But who prepared the way for the pioneers from the Old World and what...

Jim Locke 5 hours 9 minutes

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Animals & Nature

491

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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Fantastic Fiction

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Marie Corelli - Ardath

Victorian-era writer Marie Corelli’s epic work Ardath, The Story of a Dead Self, is filled with supernatural and gothic themes. We meet Theos Alwyn, an atheist poet who is lost and disconsolate with life. He begins...

Lisa Statler and 1 more 21 hours 52 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

448

Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Paul Clifford

Most men who with some earnestness of mind examine into the mysteries of our social state will perhaps pass through that stage of self-education in which this Novel was composed. The contrast between conventional...

Jim Locke 18 hours 49 minutes

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General Fiction

507

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Raw Youth

Arkady Dolgoruky, is a 19-year-old intellectual. He is the illegitimate son of a landowner and dreams to become rich. In his quest to fulfil his dream, he meets people who teach him many kinds of ideologies. Thus, the...

Joshua Stevens and 6 more 24 hours 34 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

492

Francis Marion Crawford - Witch of Prague: A Fantastic Tale

The Wanderer is looking far and wide for the love of his life, Beatrice. Try as he may, he cannot find her again. Appealing to a witch might help, but instead of using her powers to help the lovers find one another...

Mark Nelson and 7 more 14 hours 44 minutes

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Chronicles of America Volume 02 - The Spanish Conquerors

History

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Irving Berdine Richman - Chronicles of America Volume 02 - The Spanish Conquerors

A discussion of the adventures of the Spanish explorers from Columbus to Pizarro. — Summary by Jim Locke Group: Chronicles of America Series

Jim Locke 5 hours 13 minutes

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Life in the Sick-room: Essays by an Invalid

Essays & Short Works

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Harriet Martineau - Life in the Sick-room: Essays by an Invalid

Thinking she would be ill for the rest of her life, Harriet Martineau wrote these partly autobiographical essays about life in the sickroom. Considered ground breaking, it asserted that the sickroom is the sick...

MaryAnn and 6 more 5 hours 15 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

Jim Locke 4 hours 1 minute

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Published 1800 -1900

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Beyond These Voices

This novel tells the fictional life story of Veera Davis. The daughter of a poet and a poor noble woman, who is left in the care of her grandmother to a lonely and monotonous childhood, she has to make her way up in...

Jim Locke and 6 more 14 hours 1 minute

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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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