Lars Rolander (1942-2016)

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Detective Fiction

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Anna Maynard Barbour - At the Time Appointed

«Those who remember that excellent detective story, That Mainwaring Affair will expect to find plenty of mystery and exciting incidents in A. Maynard Barbour's latest novel, called At the Time Appointed , and they...

RoseA and 10 more 11 hours 43 minutes

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Miss Grantley's Girls, and the Stories She Told Them

General Fiction

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Thomas Archer - Miss Grantley's Girls, and the Stories She Told Them

The author Thomas Archer lived 1830 – 1893; he wrote several juvenile stories, and this book: Miss Grantley’s Girls – And the Stories She Told Them , was published in 1886. It is a book in 7 chapters. Miss Grantley...

Lars Rolander 4 hours 19 minutes

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Family Life

George Meredith - Egoist

The Egoist is a tragicomical novel by George Meredith published in 1879. The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and his attempts at marriage; jilted by his first bride-to-be, he...

Martin Geeson and 9 more 22 hours 18 minutes

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General Fiction

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Baroness Emma Orczy - Castles in the Air

Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma («Emmuska») Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi) (September 23, 1865 – November 12, 1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian noble...

Lars Rolander 7 hours 44 minutes

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Romance

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George Moore - Esther Waters

“She stood on the platform watching the receding train. A few bushes hid the curve of the line; the white vapour rose above them, evaporating in the pale evening. A moment more and the last carriage would pass out of...

Cori Samuel and 4 more 14 hours 12 minutes

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General Fiction

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Alexandre Exquemelin - Pirates of Panama

This volume was originally written in Dutch by John Esquemeling, and first published in Amsterdam in 1678 under the title of De Americaeneche Zee Roovers. It immediately became very popular and this first hand...

Sibella Denton and 4 more 6 hours 21 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Gerald Nolst Trenité - Chaos

«The Chaos» is a poem which demonstrates the irregularity of English spelling and pronunciation, written by Gerard Nolst Trenité (1870-1946), also known under the pseudonym Charivarius. It first appeared in an...

Alan Davis Drake and 12 more 1 hour 23 minutes

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General

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Jacob Abbott - William the Conqueror

There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history,...

Kristine Bekere and 5 more 6 hours 7 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Selma Lagerlöf - Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Price in Literature in 1909. She died in Vaermland in 1940. The Wonderful Adventures...

Lars Rolander 17 hours 38 minutes

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Performing Arts

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Harry Houdini - Miracle Mongers, an Exposé

«A complete exposé of the modus operandi of fire eaters, heat resisters, poison eaters, venomous reptile defiers, sword swallowers, human ostriches, strong men, etc.», [by Harry Houdini, from the subtitle].

Peter Eastman and 7 more 4 hours 27 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Sir Thomas Malory - Morte d'Arthur - Vol. 2

Le Morte d’Arthur (spelled Le Morte Darthur in the first printing and also in some modern editions, Middle French for la mort d’Arthur, “the death of Arthur”) is Sir Thomas Malory’s compilation of some French and...

artos and 7 more 19 hours 34 minutes

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Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 02

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Anonymous - Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 02

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No...

hefyd and 11 more 15 hours 48 minutes Thousand Nights and a Night

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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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