Lynne T

504 books

New Discussed TOP By time

Biography & Autobiography

666

Casper S. Yost - Patience Worth

Patience Worth is an examination of the communications between a seventeenth century woman and a certain Mrs. Curran of St. Louis, in 1913. Contact with the spirit world or parlor trick? If the latter, it was well...

Lynne T 5 hours 5 minutes

No comments

Action & Adventure

1.1K

R. M. Ballantyne - Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished

A runaway carriage, a spunky little girl, and a street urchin combine on the first page of Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished: a Tale of City Arab Life in a hilarious combination that you won't want to leave. This...

Joseph DeNoia and 11 more 8 hours 43 minutes

No comments

Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 08

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

989

Anonymous - Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 08

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No...

Lynne T and 6 more 13 hours 14 minutes Thousand Nights and a Night

No comments

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

819

L. Frank Baum - John Dough and the Cherub

An evil Arabian sorcerer loans a golden flask full of the Great Elixir — a magic liquid that endows a person with pronounced health, strength, and longevity — to a colorblind baker's wife to stop it falling into the...

Beth Thomas and 7 more 4 hours 27 minutes

No comments

Biography & Autobiography

796

John Hay - Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 3)

Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who were his personal secretaries during the American Civil War. Volume 3...

Delmar H Dolbier and 10 more 12 hours 51 minutes Abraham Lincoln: A History in 10 Volumes

No comments

Family Life

670

Ella D'Arcy - Stories of Troubled Marriages

Anyone who is, or has been, married knows that marriage takes work. While some marriages may be 'made in heaven', others, quite simply, are not. This short anthology comprises stories of the second variety, as...

John Burlinson and 4 more 2 hours 33 minutes

No comments

Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures

Culture & Heritage Fiction

667

Montague Glass - Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures

Montague Glass was a lawyer who eventually abandoned the practice of law to write full time. He wrote a series of stories in the New York Post about a pair of popular characters in the predominantly Jewish garment...

Lynne T and 4 more 9 hours 43 minutes

No comments

Action & Adventure

Thomas Mayne Reid - Ocean Waifs

«The “vulture of the sea,” borne upon broad wing, and wandering over the wide Atlantic, suddenly suspends his flight to look down upon an object that has attracted his attention. It is a raft, with a disc not...

Anton and 19 more 12 hours 41 minutes

No comments

Animals & Nature

799

Marshall Saunders - "Boy" The Wandering Dog

Another 'dog's-eye view' book for children by this early activist for the American Humane Society. In this tale, we follow the travels and adventures of Boy, a loveable and loyal wire-haired fox-terrier in city and...

Lynne T and 10 more 9 hours 13 minutes

No comments

Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

934

George MacDonald - Vicar's Daughter

This is the third book of the 'Marshmallow' trilogy. It is a fictional autobiography written by Ethelwyn Percivale, or 'Wynnie'. Her father is a clergyman, Mr. Walton, whose history has already been told in «A Quiet...

Jules Hawryluk and 11 more 14 hours 9 minutes

No comments

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 5

Art, Design & Architecture

754

Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 5

The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri, as it was...

MorganScorpion and 8 more 8 hours 36 minutes Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari, Volumes 1-7

No comments

Travel Fiction

687

George Gissing - Emancipated

In Italy, everything is possible. Or, at least, much more than in the oppressive social order of the Victorian era. A group of British expatriats go to tour the country and do things they might live to either bless or...

Lynne T and 3 more 14 hours 7 minutes

No comments

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

Show all