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85 books
General Fiction
446
Charles Norris Williamson - Secret history revealed by Lady Peggy O'Malley
«If, two years ago, when I was sixteen, I hadn’t wanted money to buy a white frock with roses on it, which I saw in Selfridge’s window, a secret crisis between the United States and Mexico would have been avoided; and...
10 hours 50 minutes
*Non-fiction
650
Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Book of American Explorers
This book tells the story of exploration in America in the words of the explorers themselves. It consists of extracts from narratives of the early discoverers and explorers of the American continent from the Northmen...
9 hours 54 minutes
Earth Sciences
410
Agnes Giberne - Ocean of Air - Meteorology for Beginners
This is an immensely readable book explaining anything to do with air — the atmosphere, wind and clouds, and life. This 1896 explanation has since been overtaken by more specific scientific discoveries, but the...
9 hours 52 minutes
*Non-fiction
592
Arthur L. Hayward - Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Vol 3
This is the third volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled by prison inspector Arthur Hayward from original sources originally published...
9 hours 43 minutes
Science Fiction
471
George Griffith - Mummy and Miss Nitocris: A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension
" Certain it should be that, beyond and about this World of Length, and Breadth, and Thickness, there is another World, or State of Existence, consisting of these and another dimension of which only those beings...
8 hours 28 minutes
Humorous Fiction
432
B. P. Shillaber - Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington and Others of the Family
Mrs. Partington, not unlike Mrs. Malaprop, is prone to using the wrong words when expressing her sentiments. However, the «inappropriate» word choices often cause one to look at a situation in a new way. (Introduction...
8 hours 21 minutes
