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Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties

Cooking

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Janet McKenzie Hill - Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties

There is positive need of more widespread knowledge of the principles of cookery. Few women know how to cook an egg or boil a potato properly, and the making of the perfect loaf of bread has long been assigned a place...

Larry Wilson and 6 more 4 hours 58 minutes

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Poetry

506

William Theodore Parkes - Spook Ballads

This is a volume of ghost stories in verse by William Theodore Parkes. The poems in this volume are often humorous, and written in a parody of ye olde style of poetry. «Dealing largely with ghosts and legends...

Larry Wilson and 13 more 4 hours 43 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

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Arts and Crafts Essays

A series of essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society with a preface by William Morris who writes «It is this conscious cultivation of art and the attempt to interest the public in it which the Arts...

realisticspeakers and 11 more 6 hours 41 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Alice Meynell - Children

Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing...

Jim Locke and 5 more 1 hour 56 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Maurice Baring - Lost Diaries

Within these pages find passages from the «lost diaries» of a wide range of people: royal, regular, famous, infamous, historical, and fictional. — Summary by A. Gramour

Nemo and 5 more 3 hours 35 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Frederic Werden Pangborn - Alice; or The Wages of Sin

This book is given to the reader, as the exposition of a terrible possibility in actual life. Should there be found, in its pages, any warm tints, any cheering or amusing passages, the author will be glad to know that...

Ashley M. and 4 more 2 hours 46 minutes

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Romance

490

Frank R. Stockton - Kate Bonnet

«She carried a fishing rod and line, and her name was Kate Bonnet. She was a bright-faced, quick-moving young person, and apparently did not expect to catch many fish, for she had no basket in which to carry away her...

jenno and 6 more 10 hours 43 minutes

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Family

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J. M. Barrie - Little Minister

Before «Peter Pan» came «The Little Minister», J.M. Barrie's first published novel. This is not a children's book, but reflections on life in a remote village in Scotland. The story opens with the minister and his...

MaryAnn and 4 more 11 hours 11 minutes

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Romance

495

Thornton Hall - Love Affairs of the Courts of Europe

The best stories are written by life itself, and that is why Thornton Hall has collected real life love stories in this volume. All the Princes Charming and the Fair Maidens of these stories are historical figures,...

Cassie Christian and 10 more 9 hours 5 minutes

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Carpenter's Geographical Reader: South America

Reference

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Frank G. Carpenter - Carpenter's Geographical Reader: South America

In this book the children are taken by the author upon a personally conducted tour through the most characteristic parts of the South American continent. The book will, it is believed, aid in putting flesh and blood...

MaryAnn and 6 more 7 hours 56 minutes Carpenter's Geographical Readers

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Children's Non-fiction

493

Charles Morris - Historical Tales, Volume VIII: Russian

These Russian tales span the time of Russia's founding in the 800s-900s all the way to the early twentieth century and are factually based, although particularly the older tales have become legendary. ( DrPGould)

Kalynda and 7 more 9 hours 6 minutes Historical Tales

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Anthologies

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Elizabeth Jordan - Different Girls

This is a collection of the best short stories about girls published in Harper's Magazine from 1895 to 1906. The girls in these stories are not the typical 'girl' from late 19th century novels. They are..different....

BettyB and 5 more 6 hours 12 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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