Kathrine Engan

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Ellen C. Babbitt - Jataka Tales

Jataka Tales form a part of the collective Indian Fairy tales with the only distinction that most of Jataka Tales have a moral. These are famous children stories and some of the stories like the «the turtle who...

Lucas Boulding and 8 more 1 hour 21 minutes

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General

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Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade - Mari, Our Little Norwegian Cousin

«Long before Columbus discovered America, there were brave men in the north of Europe who dared to sail farther out upon the unknown waters of the Atlantic than any other people in the world. These daring seamen were...

Ernst Pattynama and 6 more 1 hour 39 minutes Our Little Cousin Series

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Biography & Autobiography

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Edward Weitzel - Intimate Talks with Movie Stars

A collection of interviews originally published in Moving Picture World that aims to give the movie-mad public «intimate pen pictures of the stars of the screen.» Weitzel interviews some of the most renowned film...

Greg Giordano and 6 more 2 hours 42 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Olive Beaupre Miller - Treasure Chest of My Bookhouse

Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the fourth volume of the «My Bookhouse» series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited...

Pascal Ramseier and 28 more 13 hours 2 minutes My Bookhouse Series

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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John Jeffery Farnol - Broad Highway

Our hero, Peter Vibart, an Oxford graduate with no means of support but for 10 guineas he has inherited, sets out on a walking tour of the Kent countryside. Along the way, he meets many quaint and adoring characters...

John Lieder and 6 more 15 hours 51 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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P. H. Emerson - Welsh Fairy Tales and Other Stories

A collection of Welsh Fairy tales. These tales were collected by me whilst living in Anglesea during the winter 1891-2. With the exception of the French story, they were told me and I took them down at the time. In...

Goss45 and 11 more 1 hour 43 minutes

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Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Sæmund Sigfusson - Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson

The most complete set of the epic Norse eddas, or poems. It contains in beautiful verse the pagan beliefs of the Old Norse. Luckily in this work both the Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson and the Younger Eddas of...

Becky Cook and 7 more 9 hours 14 minutes

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Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 1

Exploration

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Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 1

The famous writer of great adventure stories Jules Verne wrote also several lesser known, but good non-fiction works. «Celebrated travels and travellers» tells the story of geographical discovery in the same well...

William Tomcho and 15 more 18 hours 23 minutes

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Kalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland (Crawford Translation)

Poetry

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Elias Lönnrot - Kalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland (Crawford Translation)

This is the epic of Finland. It is the combined folk tales of the Finnish nation starting with the birth of the world from the egg of a seabird and continuing to the birth of the Kaleva District, the lands of...

Kyle Raub and 14 more 15 hours 27 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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