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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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L. Frank Baum - John Dough and the Cherub

An evil Arabian sorcerer loans a golden flask full of the Great Elixir — a magic liquid that endows a person with pronounced health, strength, and longevity — to a colorblind baker's wife to stop it falling into the...

Beth Thomas and 7 more 4 hours 27 minutes

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Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley

Biography & Autobiography

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John Gilmary Shea - Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley

«It has long been a desideratum to have in English the early narratives, of the discovery and exploration of the Mississippi. Marquette's map and voyage have indeed appeared, but the narrative varies in no small...

laurencetrask and 8 more 11 hours 59 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Cyrus Macmillan - Canadian Fairy Tales

Professor Macmillan has placed all lovers of fairy tales under a deep debt of obligation to him. The fairy tale makes a universal appeal both to old and young; to the young because it is the natural world in which...

R.J. Siva and 17 more 5 hours 3 minutes

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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 5

Art, Design & Architecture

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Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 5

The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri, as it was...

MorganScorpion and 8 more 8 hours 36 minutes Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari, Volumes 1-7

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Travel Fiction

446

George Gissing - Emancipated

In Italy, everything is possible. Or, at least, much more than in the oppressive social order of the Victorian era. A group of British expatriats go to tour the country and do things they might live to either bless or...

Lynne T and 3 more 14 hours 7 minutes

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Psychology

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Henry H. Goddard - Kallikak Family

The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness , written by famous American psychologist and eugenicist Henry H. Goddard, is a famous but controversial extended case study following the Kallikak...

Larry Wilson and 4 more 2 hours 23 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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Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio, volume 1

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Songling Pu - Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio, volume 1

«Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio» (or «Strange Tales of Liaozhai») is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical...

Availle and 19 more 12 hours 6 minutes

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 7

Anthologies

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 7

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering «American households a mass of good reading», the editors drew from...

Mike Pelton and 16 more 17 hours 59 minutes Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

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Story of the Champions of the Round Table

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Howard Pyle - Story of the Champions of the Round Table

The second of four volumes of Pyles' retelling of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, which tells the stories of Percival, Tristram, and Launcelot of the Lake. — Summary by Maggie Travers

Maggie Travers and 11 more 12 hours 30 minutes

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Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 2

Psychology

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Hans Gross - Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 2

Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on criminal investigation. This treatise covers everything from the qualities of...

Steve and 18 more 14 hours 19 minutes

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Family Life

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George Meredith - Diana of the Crossways

Inspired by the real life story of Caroline Norton, a friend of the author's, this book tells about a lively woman who is trapped in a miserable marriage. Yet Diana is not one to give up in her quest for love,...

KHand and 12 more 16 hours 45 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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