Julia Niedermaier

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Essays

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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - Essays book 2

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary genre. He is also known as the father of Modern Skepticism. His pieces became...

Malone and 5 more 27 hours 41 minutes Essays by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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Essays & Short Works

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Isaac D'Israeli - Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1

This is a collection of short essays on literature. Various subjects are discussed, such as libraries, critics, the classics, and all sorts of things which, in the opinion of Mr. Disraeli, a writer or a reader can do...

Jim Locke and 23 more 24 hours 2 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

525

Samuel Richardson - Pamela, Volume 2

Pamela, tells the story of a 15-year old maidservant named Pamela Andrews, whose country landowner master, Mr. B, makes unwanted advances towards her after the death of his mother. He abducts her, locks her up in one...

Michele Eaton and 13 more 23 hours

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Exploration

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Ida Laura Pfeiffer - Woman's Journey Round the World

Ida Laura Pfeiffer was an Austrian traveler and travel book author, one of the first female explorers, whose popular books were translated into several languages. «The Woman's Journey Around the World, from Vienna to...

Lynne T and 12 more 19 hours 24 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Hamilton Wright Mabie - Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 2

This is the second book in a twelve volume series, and highlights myths and legendary heroes from around the world, from Ancient Greece to Scandinavia and the Far East. They are aimed at the junior audience. (Summary...

Lynne T and 25 more 18 hours 56 minutes

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What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government

Political Science

549

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government

What Is Property?: or, An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government (French: Qu'est-ce que la propriété? ou Recherche sur le principe du Droit et du Gouvernment) is an influential work of nonfiction on the...

Deborah Brabyn and 16 more 17 hours 29 minutes

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Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw

General Fiction

479

Frances Milton Trollope - Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw

The novel begins with the arrival of a family staking a claim in the black delta of the Deep South. Whitlaw is a brutish sort who bullies his cowering wife into working herself to death. Shortly after giving birth to...

Anna Simon and 8 more 17 hours 26 minutes

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Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2

Family & Relationships

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Havelock Ellis - Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2

The second of six volumes, this volume covers in extensive detail the topic of «Sexual Inversion», or homosexuality to give it a more current name. Written as an anthropological and psychological study from the point...

John Fricker and 6 more 16 hours 15 minutes

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Family Life

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Robert Kemp Philp - Reason Why

This collection of useful information on «Common Things» is put in the interesting form of «Why and Because,» and comprehends a familiar explanation of many subjects which occupy a large space in the philosophy of...

Anusha Iyer and 17 more 14 hours 59 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Lafcadio Hearn - Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation

Greece-born Lafcadio Hearn (1850 — 1904) spent decades of his life in Japan, even marrying a Japanese woman, thus becoming a Japanese citizen by the name of Koizumi Yakumo (小泉八雲). He wrote many books on Japan,...

Julia Niedermaier 13 hours 58 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

To follow up on the heels of volumes 1 and 2 of «The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes» released on Librivox, here is a collection of stories starring his contemporary American rivals. Brought together and re-published in a...

K.G.Cross and 11 more 12 hours 24 minutes

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Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories

Anthologies

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Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories

This book, published in 1918 by the Atlantic Monthly Press, is a collection of 23 «modern short stories», written by various authors as follows: Cornelia A. P. Comer, Amy Wentworth Stone, Elizabeth Ashe, Dallas Lore...

Mike Pelton and 9 more 11 hours 43 minutes Atlantic Narratives, Modern Short Stories

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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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