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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Thomas Bulfinch - Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes: The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne. This is...

Justin S Barrett and 26 more 14 hours 54 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

490

Sir Walter Scott - Talisman

The Talisman is a gripping tale set near the end of the Third Crusade. King Richard the Lionheart is grievously ill, and all around him the leaders from allied countries plot and scheme to gain personal power,...

Lizzie Driver 14 hours 27 minutes

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Animals & Nature

607

Andrew Lang - Blue Fairy Book

Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was followed by many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as...

Maria Falin and 18 more 14 hours 7 minutes

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Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 01

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Anonymous - Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 01

The main frame story concerns a king and his new bride. The king, Shahryar, upon discovering his ex-wife's infidelity executes her and then declares all women to be unfaithful. He begins to marry a succession of...

Tim Gregory and 18 more 13 hours 29 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

540

H. Rider Haggard - She

At 5 years old Leo Vincey is left in the care of a Cambridge professor by the name of Horace Holly. His father leaves him a strange casket which he is to open on his 25th Birthday. On opening the Casket Leo and...

Geoff Cowgill and 11 more 11 hours 35 minutes

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Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

Children's Fiction

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E. M. Berens - Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

This is a comprehensive collection of all the major and minor gods of Rome and Greece, with descriptions of festivals and retellings of major mythological stories. (Summary by Sibella)

Sibella Denton and 10 more 11 hours 24 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

608

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World , is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the «travelers' tales»...

Lizzie Driver 11 hours 23 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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John Muir - Mountains of California

John Muir (1838–1914) was one of the first modern preservationists. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, and wildlife, especially in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, were read...

Robert Garrison and 10 more 10 hours 19 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

566

Jules Verne - Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon

First published in 1881, Eight Hundred Miles on the Amazon is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, having elements of codes and cryptography. Unlike many of his other stories, it is not a work of science fiction....

Scott Robbins and 12 more 10 hours 15 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Andrew Lang - Lilac Fairy Book

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's «Coloured» Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of...

ML Cohen and 18 more 9 hours 47 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Logan Marshall - Myths and Legends of All Nations

This excellent book contains many great stories from the various mythologies of man throughout the ages.

Mark and 12 more 8 hours 59 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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William Henry Hudson - Far Away and Long Ago

William Henry Hudson was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. Hudson was born of U.S. parents living in the Quilmes Partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, where he spent his youth studying the local flora...

hefyd and 9 more 8 hours 54 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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