Larry Wilson

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Historical Fiction

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G. A. Henty - Young Carthaginian

Typically, Henty's heroes are boys of pluck in troubled times, and this is no different. Detailed research is embellished with a vivid imagination, especially in this novel set in the Punic wars, about which knowledge...

Larry Wilson and 10 more 11 hours 40 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Caleb Bingham - Columbian Orator

The Columbian Orator, a collection of political essays, poems, and dialogues first published in 1797, was widely used in American schoolrooms in the first quarter of the 19th century to teach reading and speaking....

TheNeobro and 8 more 11 hours 33 minutes

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Science - History of the Universe Vol. 1: Astronomy

Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics

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Francis Rolt-Wheeler - Science - History of the Universe Vol. 1: Astronomy

Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The first volume is on Astronomy written by Waldemar Kaempffert. This book briefly discusses the evolution of astronomical beliefs and the development of...

Larry Wilson and 11 more 11 hours 28 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Xenophon - Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus

The Cyropaedia (or Cyropedia) is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, written in the early 4th century BC by the Athenian gentleman-soldier, and student of Socrates, Xenophon of Athens. The title...

Larry Wilson and 12 more 11 hours 26 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Carolyn Wells - Technique of the Mystery Story

For one, I have never been one of those who apologize for my frank and never-ending delight in mystery stories. Their mazes have led me unwearied through miles of printed pages, and if only the problem has been worth...

Lynn Lee and 15 more 11 hours 15 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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Ernest Ingersoll - Book of the Ocean

The Book of the Ocean is precisely what its title promises. It contains a rather broad overview of all topics connected to the ocean, such as its geography and the history of the exploration of the oceans. Besides the...

Larry Wilson and 9 more 11 hours 12 minutes

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Poems of American History, Volume 4, The Civil War

Poetry

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Poems of American History, Volume 4, The Civil War

This volume is a fascinating reflection on the Civil War years from a perspective in 1908, when many Civil War veterans were still alive, when the wounds to North and South were still fresh, and when no event more...

Niki Myers and 9 more 10 hours 59 minutes

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Romance

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Louis Couperus - Inevitable

23 year old Cornélie de Retz is a Dutch Divorcee who goes to Italy to start a new life and most part of the novel is filled with the details of romantic conversations, emotions and finally the Inevitable follows. Find...

Jules Hawryluk and 4 more 10 hours 55 minutes

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Nature

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Jean-Henri Fabre - Story Book of Science

The famed French naturalist Fabre covers a large variety of subjects in these 70 short but fascinating essays about insects, animals and nature in general. The translator explains in her foreword, «The young in heart...

Frances Brown and 12 more 10 hours 51 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Smith Burnham - Hero Tales from History

This volume celebrates stories of great heroes from the pages of history from Moses and David through Clara Barton and Henry Longfellow. It is divided into nine sections: Mighty Men of Long Ago, Heroes of the Middle...

Larry Wilson and 18 more 10 hours 50 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Frances Jenkins Olcott - Wonder Garden

«Here are 150 nature myths and short stories from all parts of the World. They are the kind that children delight in — tales of transformations of maidens into trees and fountains, of youths into flowers, and of men...

Debbie R. Baker Robinson and 36 more 10 hours 46 minutes

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Poetry

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Budget of Christmas Tales

This is a 1895 collection of christmas-themed short stories and poems by various authors, Charles Dickens himself being the most prominent feature. — Summary by Carolin

Larry Wilson and 13 more 10 hours 18 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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