Julia Niedermaier

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Essays & Short Works

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Robert G. Ingersoll - Works Of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 4

Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, one of the greatest orators of the mid-19th century, was a highly sought after lecturer/toastmaster who sold out every hall he engaged throughout America. He was an ardent abolitionist,...

Michele Fry and 8 more 11 hours 4 minutes

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Romance

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Louis Couperus - Inevitable

23 year old Cornélie de Retz is a Dutch Divorcee who goes to Italy to start a new life and most part of the novel is filled with the details of romantic conversations, emotions and finally the Inevitable follows. Find...

Jules Hawryluk and 4 more 10 hours 55 minutes

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Romance

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Wilkie Collins - Two Destinies

Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesizes. Destiny at first doesn't seem to adhere to this plan, and the pair is separated and lose sight of each...

acousticwave and 12 more 10 hours 9 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Andrew Lang - Violet Fairy Book

Andrew Lang’s Violet Fairy Book (1901) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was one of many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as Andrew...

BDSEmpire and 19 more 10 hours 4 minutes Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Olive Beaupre Miller - Up One Pair of Stairs of My Bookhouse

Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the second volume of the «My Bookhouse» series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited...

Emily Jones and 28 more 9 hours 45 minutes My Bookhouse Series

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 057

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 057: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members. A few notes: Section 12 The Cossack was translated by Constance...

Bellona Times and 11 more 9 hours 29 minutes Short Story Collections

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Cats: Their Points and Characteristics, with Curiosities of Cat Life, and a Chapter on Feline Ailments

Animals

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W. Gordon Stables - Cats: Their Points and Characteristics, with Curiosities of Cat Life, and a Chapter on Feline Ailments

How true is the old saw: «Dogs have families, but cats have staff»? Cats have been favorite domestic pets for thousands of years. This is a study of their history, characteristics and suitability as pets, together...

Lynne T and 9 more 9 hours 13 minutes

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General Fiction

453

L. T. Meade - Girls of St. Wode's

This is a story about the life of a school girl. The story centres around the girls' college of St. Wode's, Wingfield. This is the place in all England where women who wish to distinguish themselves should go to...

Michele Eaton and 11 more 8 hours 33 minutes

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Education

John S. Hart - In the School Room

In the first place, teaching is not simply telling. A class may be told a thing twenty times over, and yet not know it. Talking to a class is not necessarily teaching. I have known many teachers who were brimful of...

Joseph Abell and 13 more 8 hours 11 minutes

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Family & Relationships

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Alice Bacon - Japanese Girls and Women

A clear and delightful peek into the world of Japanese girls and women of the late 1800s: their childhood, education, marriage and intimate family life. And it is done by someone who admires the immense resources,...

Dan Froese and 8 more 7 hours 46 minutes

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Atheism & Agnosticism

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Robert Blatchford - God and my Neighbour

«I have been asked why I have opposed Christianity. I have several reasons, which shall appear in due course. At present I offer one. I oppose Christianity because it is not true. No honest man will ask for any...

tovarisch and 6 more 7 hours 37 minutes

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Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor

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Elizabeth Louisa Gebhard - Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor

John Jacob Astor was pre-eminently the opener of new paths, a breaker of trails. From his first tramp alone through the Black Forest of Baden, at sixteen, his life never lost this typical touch. In America, both...

Pamela Krantz and 12 more 7 hours 30 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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