Lee Smalley

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Humorous Fiction

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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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War & Military

857

Walter Wood - In the Line of Battle

“A COLLECTION OF absolutely authentic accounts by privates and non-commissioned officers… We see a great simplicity and directness of observation and recital, so admirable that one page of such writing is worth all...

Lee Smalley 6 hours 34 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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W. Somerset Maugham - Bishop's Apron

«Canon Spratte saw himself as he thought others might see him: mediocre, pompous, self-assertive, verbose.» Maugham could have added ambitious, hypocritical, and vain. In this engrossing social satire, Theodore...

Lee Smalley 6 hours 35 minutes

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*Non-fiction

954

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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Memoirs

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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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Biography & Autobiography

906

Frederick Douglass - Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass published his highly acclaimed third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, in 1881 and revised it in 1892. The emancipation of American slaves during and following the American Civil...

Lee Smalley 23 hours 4 minutes

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Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass - Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass

These two articles were reproduced as an e-book by Project Gutenberg in 2008 to supplement "...several articles by Frederick Douglass, whose larger work was presented in book form as a January, 1993 Project...

Lee Smalley 48 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Isaac Marcosson - Autobiography of a Clown

This «as told to» autobiography of Jules Turnour is based on a popular article that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1909. Turnour relates through Marcosson his personal history and that of the circus, both in...

Lee Smalley 1 hour 28 minutes

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From North Carolina to Southern California Without a Ticket and How I Did It

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886

John Peele - From North Carolina to Southern California Without a Ticket and How I Did It

"… I have decided to write an account of a few of the many adventures and dangers that befell me while making my way, practically without a penny, from Tarboro, North Carolina, to Tucson, Arizona; and thence to...

Lee Smalley 2 hours 29 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Charles George Harper - Summer Days in Shakespeare Land

«Some delights of the ancient town of Stratford-upon-Avon and the country round about, together with a sketch of the life of Mr. William Shakespeare, in which many things both new and entertaining are to be...

Lee Smalley 8 hours 7 minutes

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Memoirs

875

Donald Shaw - Eighteen Months' Imprisonment

This is an absorbing memoir of an inmate's experiences and impressions while in a London prison. He describes himself as «a man of education and worldly experience» and weighing «19 stone 13 lbs» (279 lbs), a stone...

Lee Smalley 7 hours 15 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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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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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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