K.G.Cross

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Walt Whitman - Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone

Walter «Walt» Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist, in addition to publishing his poetry—was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War. Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, was first...

Bruce Kachuk and 9 more 14 minutes

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Poetry

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Suffrage Songs and Verses

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, one of the most prominent American suffragists, was not only known as an accomplished author of fiction and non-fiction, but also her poetry remains worth reading until today. — Summary by...

Foon and 3 more 44 minutes

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Poetry

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Rudyard Kipling - IF

This poem is considered one of the most inspirational guidelines on how to live and act with integrity and develop a winning strategy throughout life, and the poem has garnered much attention in popular culture. The 4...

April6090 and 27 more 1 hour 4 minutes

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Poetry

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - From Queen's Gardens

This is the first part of a collection of poetry written by female poets. This part of From Queen's Gardens is a collection of 30 poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. — Summary by Carolin

Ellies and 3 more 1 hour

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Travel Fiction

Isaac Taylor - Scenes in Europe, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travellers

In this little volume, Isaac Taylor takes us on a tour of Europe, anno 1824. We travel once around the entire continent, starting in England, through Scandinavia, Russia, down to Turkey, over the Alps, France, Spain,...

K.G.Cross and 5 more 2 hours 25 minutes

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Memoirs

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Through the Magic Door

I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of...

Gail Nelson and 8 more 4 hours 49 minutes

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Mathematics

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Edmond Halley - Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol 1

«The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.» (from its Mission Statement). As scientists have explored the world...

Lynne T and 17 more 11 hours 14 minutes

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Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 6

Epistolary Fiction

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Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 6

It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, It is generally regarded as Richardson's masterpiece. This is Volume six out of a series of nine Volumes....

Tony Addison and 7 more 13 hours 6 minutes Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson, in 9 Volumes

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Fantastic Fiction

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Marie Corelli - Secret Power

This Marie Corelli novel falls in the realm of fantasy and science fiction with a steampunk element. The story centers around Morgana Royal, a powerful woman who invents an airship, and Roger Seaton, her love interest...

Leena Emsley and 8 more 10 hours 19 minutes

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Single author

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Isaac Watts - Psalms of David

Isaac Watts was a poet, hymn-writer and musician. He wrote many of what we regard as «classical hymns» such as «Joy to the World» and «When I survey the wondrous cross». His translations of the Psalms are therefore...

Jael Baldwin and 20 more 8 hours 22 minutes

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Poetry

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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy and Other Poems

Sara Teasdale was an American poet, originally from Missouri, later attaching herself more to New York. Helen of Troy was one of her first great successes. This volume also contains the small drama On the Tower, which...

Katie Rose and 16 more 1 hour 51 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Émile Zola - Ladies' Paradise

Zola's original French publication, Au Bonheur des Dames («The Ladies' Delight»), published 1882, is the eleventh novel in his Rougon-Macquart series. This English translation by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, was published...

K.G.Cross 16 hours 11 minutes

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New

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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