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Family Life

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Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie - Mrs. Dymond

Susanna Holcombe, a very sensitive and free spirited young lady, tries to fit in to society. But it is very hard for a Victorian woman to carve her own path, and she is almost forced to marry colonel Dymond. This book...

KHand and 5 more 12 hours 37 minutes

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Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest

Nature

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Edward Tyson Allen - Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest

Written by a forester, this book aims to educate people on the importance of maintaining forests and those events which pose a danger to forests. It looks at forests from multiple points of view, the public,...

KHand 4 hours 25 minutes

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Short Stories

458

Joseph Dunn - Glories of Ireland

A collection of essays on Ireland compiled by Joseph Dunn and PJ Lennox. As stated in the Preface to the books "...we have been forced to the conclusion that the performances of the Irish race in many fields of...

April6090 and 13 more 16 hours 1 minute

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Poetry

452

Michael Field - Underneath the Bough: A Book of Verses

This is a collection of poems by Michael Field, the pseudonym of Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper. Those poems are of interest not only because they are beautiful examples of aesthetic poetry, but also...

KHand and 3 more 1 hour 17 minutes

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Beacon Lights of History, Vol 6: Renaissance and Reformation

Middle Ages/Middle History

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John Lord - Beacon Lights of History, Vol 6: Renaissance and Reformation

Volume 6 blends literature, exploration, science, and the start of Protestantism with discussions of Chaucer, Dante, Luther and others. — Summary by KHand

KHand 9 hours 24 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Mary Macleod - Shakespeare Story-Book

This book contains many of Shakespeare's most famous plays, retold for children. — Summary by kathrinee

Jason in Panama and 11 more 12 hours 24 minutes

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State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1837 - 1844)

Literary Collections

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John Tyler - State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1837 - 1844)

The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition...

Mark Warner and 4 more 9 hours 4 minutes State of the Union Addresses

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Historical Fiction

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Emily Sarah Holt - Lady Sybil's Choice

This historical novel is set in the 1100s in France and Jerusalem, following the First Crusade. Part of the story of Guy of Lusignan (a real historical character) is told through the eyes of his fictional sister,...

Rachel and 5 more 7 hours 21 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Sidney Lanier - Ship of Earth

But how short was his day, and how slender his opportunity! From the time he was of age he waged a constant, courageous, hopeless fight against adverse circumstance for room to live and write. Much very dear, and...

Bruce Kachuk and 12 more 13 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Conversion

Among the twelve hundred poems which have emanated from my too prolific pen there are some forty or fifty which treat entirely of that emotion which has been denominated «the grand passion»—love. A few of those are of...

Bruce Kachuk and 12 more 40 minutes

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Prison & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences

Political Science

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Constance Lytton - Prison & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences

Constance Lytton worked along Emmeline Pankhurst for the cause of women's suffrage in England. Upset that she was getting preferential treatment by the authorities, she assumed a pseudonym (Jane Wharton) so that her...

KHand 8 hours 25 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Alexander Hamilton Laidlaw - American Girl

Alexander Hamilton Laidlaw was born in Scotland. He graduated from Philadelphia Central High School in 1845. He practiced medicine from 1856-1905 and published some works including Soldier Songs and Love Songs,...

Bruce Kachuk and 6 more 15 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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