Kathleen Moore

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Patrick Brontë - Cottage Poems

Patrick Brontë (father of the famous Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anna) is mainly remembered as a father, reverend and teacher, but he also was a poet and a novelist. Cottage Poems, his first published work,...

Larry Wilson and 5 more 1 hour 12 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Arthur Griffiths - Chronicles of Newgate Vol 1

Good against evil; right versus wrong; the judicial system against the criminal world. The struggle is as old as mankind. Sometimes the lines are blurred as the 'good' punish the 'bad' — the warriors against crime...

Lynne T and 6 more 9 hours 6 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Walter Besant - Blind Love

Blind Love, also published under the titles Iris and The Lord Harry is Wilkie Collins' last novel, completed after his death by Walter Besant. The blind love in the title refers to the love of Iris, a woman of...

Tony Foster and 17 more 14 hours 44 minutes

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Historical Fiction

G. A. Henty - In the Irish Brigade: A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain

In this adventure story by the novelist and war correspondent, G.A. Henty, Desmond Kennedy, a young Irishman flees political oppression and religious persecution at home to serve in the French armies of Louis XIV. We...

Rachel and 10 more 12 hours 13 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Curiosities of Street Literature

This is a collection of broadsides from London. Broadsides are short, popular publications, a precursor to today's tabloid journalism. The collection contains sensationalist and sometimes comical stories about...

Ed Humpal and 27 more 21 hours 22 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Margaret Sidney - Ben Pepper

This book is about Ben Pepper on some adventures! From The Five Little Peppers to Joel Pepper to now Ben Pepper, you'll know everything about the Pepper family. — Summary by Elijah Fisher

Rachel and 9 more 8 hours 54 minutes

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Vachel Lindsay - Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems

This is a collection of poems on various topics by Vachel Lindsay. Please note that the Booker T. Washington trilogy had to be omitted from this collection. — Summary by Carolin

Tony Addison and 12 more 1 hour 40 minutes

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Family

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Marion Ames Taggart - Little Grey House

The Grey House is grey in color and is home to the Grey family. In this, the first of the Grey House books, we are introduced to the three Grey sisters, Oswyth, 17, Roberta, 16 and 14 year old Prudence, their sensible...

Lynne T and 2 more 5 hours 25 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Ida M. Tarbell - Business of Being a Woman

How were women's roles changing in the 1900's? Ida Tarbell explores this in a well written, witty and insightful series of essays. «The object of this little volume is to call attention to a certain distrust, which...

MaryAnn and 7 more 3 hours 46 minutes

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Sermons on Several Occasions, Third-Fifth Series

Literary Collections

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John Wesley - Sermons on Several Occasions, Third-Fifth Series

John Wesley, along with his brother Charles, are credited with founding the Methodist denomination. «The following Sermons contain the substance of what I have been preaching for between eight and nine years last...

MaryAnn and 13 more 13 hours 13 minutes

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War & Military

Mary Roberts Rinehart - Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front

A personal account of the American author's visit to Europe in January 1915 while a war correspondent in Belgium for The Saturday Evening Post. She writes: «War is not two great armies meeting in a clash and frenzy of...

Mary in Arkansas and 11 more 10 hours 27 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Robert W. Chambers - Slayer of Souls

Tressa Norne is an American living in China. After her life was spared during a revolution in the area, Tressa finds herself taken as a slave and forced to serve Erlik, a demon-god, and his cult. She ends up escaping...

Lynne T and 4 more 7 hours 11 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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