Libby Gohn

29 books

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Elsie Spicer Eells - Islands of Magic

LEGENDS, FOLK AND FAIRY TALES FROM THE AZORES. Some three-fourths of the distance between America and Europe there is a group of nine beautiful islands called the Azores which belong to Portugal. Their names are...

MaryAnn and 13 more 3 hours 57 minutes

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Historical Fiction

433

Thomas Hardy - Group of Noble Dames

The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of any touch of nature as a table of logarithms. But given a clue—the faintest...

Libby Gohn 6 hours 52 minutes

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Children's Fiction

503

Joseph Jacobs - Indian Fairy Tales

This book is a fine collection of Indian fairy tales, some are folklore, some are from the Jataka tales, and some from panchatantra. (Summary by sidhu177)

Gabriela Cowan and 10 more 6 hours 38 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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John Rae - New Adventures of Alice

After reading and re-reading the book many time as a boy and wishing that Lewis Carroll would have written another Alice In Wonderland Book, John Rae began imagining what that girl would have gotten up to if he had...

Phil Chenevert and 10 more 3 hours 8 minutes

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Dress Design: An Account of Costume for Artists and Dressmakers

Art, Design & Architecture

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Talbot Hughes - Dress Design: An Account of Costume for Artists and Dressmakers

Explanations of Western European trends in men and women's fashion from prehistoric times to the Victorian Era. (Summary by Libby Gohn)

Libby Gohn 2 hours 30 minutes

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Your Psychic Powers and How to Develop Them

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Hereward Carrington - Your Psychic Powers and How to Develop Them

Instructions in how to develop your psychic powers including telepathy, clairvoyance, self-projection, reincarnation, and other topics. Seriously. «It must be distinctly understood … that I believe the vast bulk of...

Chuck Williamson and 18 more 10 hours 40 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Christopher Morley - Mince Pie

Mince Pie is a compilation of humorous sketches, poetry, and essays written by Christopher Morley. Morley sets the tone in the preface: «If one asks what excuse there can be for prolonging the existence of these...

Lucretia B. and 9 more 6 hours

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Language learning

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Raphael Kühner - Elementary Greek Grammar

We have followed the Grammars of Kühner, known as his «Large» and «School» Grammars. [...] Omitting the learned dissertations and numerous details of the original, we have endeavored to furnish to the student, in a...

Rapunzelina and 8 more 10 hours 2 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Baroness Emma Orczy - Scarlet Pimpernel (Version 2)

In the year 1792, the French Revolution is in the midst of its bloodiest stage. Aristocrats are being executed left and right by the Republic when the guillotine begins to be repeatedly cheated of aristocratic victims...

CaprishaPage and 16 more 8 hours 29 minutes

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Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty

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Imbert de Saint-Amand - Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty

Paris in 1792 is no longer what it was in 1789. In 1789, the old French society was still brilliant. The past endured beside the present. Neither names nor escutcheons, neither liveries nor places at court, had...

Libby Gohn and 6 more 11 hours 9 minutes

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 4

Anthologies

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 4

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern , is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering «American households a mass of good reading», the editors drew from...

Cynthia Moyer and 22 more 21 hours 59 minutes Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

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Biography & Autobiography

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May Gillington Byron - Day With Great Poets

Who was John Milton? The author of Paradise Lost you say? Well, certainly, but he was also a man, going about his daily life like any of us in 17th century England, (except that he was a genius of course). Take time...

CaprishaPage and 5 more 7 hours 59 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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