Kirsten Ferreri

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Published 1900 onward

593

Gene Stratton-Porter - Girl of the Limberlost

A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel written by the American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter, was first published in August, 1909. The story takes place in Indiana, in and around the Limberlost Swamp, during...

Kymm Zuckert and 9 more 11 hours 25 minutes

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Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

Children's Fiction

586

E. M. Berens - Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

This is a comprehensive collection of all the major and minor gods of Rome and Greece, with descriptions of festivals and retellings of major mythological stories. (Summary by Sibella)

Sibella Denton and 10 more 11 hours 24 minutes

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Religion

488

Louis Ginzberg - Legends of the Jews, Volume 2

Rabbi Louis Ginzberg was one of the outstanding Talmudists of the twentieth century. He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kovno, Lithuania; he died on November 11, 1953, in New York City. Ginzberg taught at the...

Scott Sherris and 10 more 11 hours 16 minutes Legends of the Jews vol 1-4

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Satire

603

Charles Dickens - Hard Times

Hard Times, the shortest of Dickens's full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the rule and all fancy is to be stamped out. The plot centers around the men and...

Kirsten Ferreri and 9 more 10 hours 54 minutes

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Detective Fiction

608

Anna Katharine Green - Leavenworth Case

Anna Katharine Green was one of the first female mystery writers to publish under her own name. She was never very successful as an author, but the technical excellence of her books caused several law schools to use...

Kirsten Ferreri 10 hours 34 minutes

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Detective Fiction

540

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective. They were originally published in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The title...

TBOL3 and 10 more 10 hours 18 minutes

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*Non-fiction

540

Mary Wollstonecraft - Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior to men, but only appeared to be because they lacked education. She suggested...

Alex Foster and 14 more 9 hours 46 minutes

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Poetry

750

John Milton - Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Homer, Virgil, and Dante, and sought to create a work of art which fully...

Owen and 11 more 9 hours 41 minutes

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Action & Adventure

650

George MacDonald - At the Back of the North Wind

Diamond the little boy sleeps in the hayloft above the stall of Diamond the horse. The loft is snug but drafty, and after plugging a hole in the wall one night, Diamond is scolded by the beautiful Lady North Wind for...

Meredith Hughes and 16 more 8 hours 57 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

730

F. Scott Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise

This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War...

Kristin Hughes and 8 more 8 hours 56 minutes

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Detective Fiction

534

J. S. Fletcher - Paradise Mystery

A quiet cathedral town in England, full of gossips and people who are not quite who they seem to be, is the setting for this murder mystery. (Summary by Gesine)

JimmyLogan and 12 more 8 hours 39 minutes

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Detective Fiction

532

J. S. Fletcher - Middle Temple Murder

The dead body of a man is found on the steps to some chambers of Middle Temple Lane, near London's law courts. A journalist and a young lawyer start investigating. — This classic English murder mystery was written in...

Betsie Bush and 15 more 8 hours 16 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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