Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)

195 books

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Children's Fiction

594

Charlotte Mary Yonge - Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe

Travel with Little Lucy around the globe and learn a little geography and small bits about other cultures.(Summary by Laura Caldwell)

Cori Samuel and 6 more 1 hour 40 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

716

Andrew Lang - Red Fairy Book

The Red Fairy Book is the second in a series of twelve books known as Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's «Coloured» Books . The series was immensely popular and proved of great influence in children's...

Darla and 16 more 12 hours 21 minutes Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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Published 1800 -1900

600

Louisa May Alcott - Work: A Story of Experience

It is one of «several nineteenth-century novels [which] uncovers the changes in women's work in the new industrial era, as well as the dilemmas, tensions, and the meaning of that work» The story depicts the struggles...

Aaron Elliott and 12 more 12 hours 48 minutes

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Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53

Travel & Geography

636

Ellen Clacy - Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53

«If you have visions of a middle-aged parasol-bearing lady smiling sweetly from her carriage as she tours Bendigo think again. In 1852, 20 year old clergyman’s daughter Ellen and her brother boarded ship for Melbourne...

Annise and 1 more 6 hours 27 minutes

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Detective Fiction

532

George Manville Fenn - Dark House

An extremely wealthy but reclusive man has died, leaving an eccentric will which hints at great riches hidden somewhere in the house. Most of the people at the reading of the will did not know the deceased in person,...

Lucy Burgoyne 4 hours 33 minutes

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Self-Help

555

Henry Stanton - Sex

Henry Stanton’s 1922 book Sex – Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English is intended as a frank (although consevative and moralistic) guide to human sexual behaviour and relationships. It is partly a self-help...

Maire Rhode and 9 more 1 hour 44 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

556

Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories

Since this series of books is intended for all young people from one to one hundred, it opens with about eighty of the old MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES. Nothing better was ever invented to tell to little folks who are...

Cori Samuel and 39 more 19 hours 58 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

510

Louisa May Alcott - Flower Fables

Flower Fables is Louisa May Alcott's first book, penned at 16 for Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter, Ellen.(Summary by Clarica)

Clarica and 5 more 3 hours 28 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

524

Margaret Penrose - Motor Girls

When Cora Kimball got her new auto for her birthday she had no idea what adventures would start for her and her brother Jack. Where did Ed’s money and bonds disappear? Were they misplaced or were they stolen and...

Lucy Burgoyne 6 hours 8 minutes

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Animals & Nature

594

Arthur Scott Bailey - Tale Of Tommy Fox

Bailey's writing has been described thusly by the Newark Evening News: «Mr. Bailey centered all his plots in the animal, bird and insect worlds, weaving natural history into the stories in a way that won educator's...

Lucy Burgoyne 1 hour 54 minutes

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Children's Fiction

496

Nora Archibald Smith - Fairy Ring

The Fairy Ring , originally published in 1910, is a collection of 63 fairy tales from around the globe. It includes such well-known favorites as «History of Jack the Giant-Killer», «The Frog...

Laurie Anne Walden and 28 more 17 hours 36 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

562

Unknown - String of Pearls

The tale of Sweeney Todd has had many incarnations, most famously the stage and movie musical by Stephen Sondheim. But it all started in 1846 with a serialized telling of the story titled “The String of Pearls” in...

musil and 13 more 11 hours 41 minutes

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New

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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