Lee Smalley

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Action & Adventure Fiction

434

William Clark Russell - Last Entry

This is a sea-faring novel set in 1837. A wealthy former seaman from London and his daughter, who is engaged to be married, set sail on his newly restored schooner, headed for the equator for the purpose of restoring...

Lee Smalley 4 hours 25 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

409

Henry Salt - Logic of Vegetarianism

With clear logic and entertaining dialogues, the author presents many reasons for a vegetarian rather than a “flesh-eating” diet, and his arguments for not eating meat are as compelling today as when they were...

Lee Smalley 4 hours 3 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

447

Samuel G Goodrich - Life of Benjamin Franklin

This little book was intended for the education of school children and includes tales, sketches and anecdotes of his life written for the children of the mid 1800's and written in the English languge of that period....

maryagneskatherine and 10 more 3 hours 44 minutes

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Memoirs

410

Matthew A. Henson - Negro Explorer at the North Pole

In this fascinating memoir, Matthew Henson describes the incredibly dangerous, exhausting, and bone-chilling trip to what was until then the never-before reached point on earth, the North Pole. «Robert Peary is...

Lee Smalley 3 hours 41 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

447

Coningsby Dawson - It Might Have Happened to You

This is a frank eyewitness description of the suffering, starvation in particular, that was widely experienced in Central and Eastern Europe in the aftermath of «The Great War». “It is not stating matters too strongly...

Lee Smalley 3 hours 29 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

476

George Livermore - Take it From Dad

Take It From Dad is a collection of letters written by a father to his son, Ted, at boarding school, away from home for the first time. In each letter «Dad» comments on some aspect of Ted's experience, attitude, or...

Lee Smalley 3 hours 19 minutes

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Detective Fiction

445

E. W. Hornung - Thousandth Woman

E. W. Hornung was an English author and poet best known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th-century London. Some of Hornung's novels, including The Thousandth Woman,...

Lee Smalley 3 hours 19 minutes

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*Non-fiction

439

L. Winstanley - Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is universally regarded as one of the greatest authors in history. This brief biography discusses, among other things, Tolstoy's childhood, married life, contemporaries, travels, and his...

Lee Smalley 3 hours 12 minutes

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Animals & Nature

544

Aesop - Aesop for Children

A collection of Aesop's fables for children from the classic American book illustrated by Milo Winter. Read along and see the illustrations at: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19994. (Summary by Jill Engle)

Bob Neufeld and 18 more 3 hours 11 minutes

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Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell

War & Military

412

Ernest Protheroe - Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell

Edith L. Cavell (1865–1915) was a British nurse who attended to soldiers of both sides during World War I, and helped some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium, for which she was arrested,...

Lee Smalley 2 hours 47 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

490

Duncan Campbell Scott - In the Village of Viger

These ten superb short stories of Duncan Campbell Scott, published in 1896, portray humorous, farcical, and tragic aspects of life in the fictional Quebec village of Viger. Scott’s tales of the lives and vicissitudes...

Lee Smalley 2 hours 47 minutes

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General Fiction

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Stefan Zweig - Burning Secret

A lonely, convalescing 12 year-old boy and his attractive mother, who is in a loveless marriage, meet a gentleman while vacationing at a European resort. Seeking an enjoyable way to pass the time, the man schemes to...

Lee Smalley 2 hours 33 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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