Margaret Espaillat

47 books

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Walt Whitman - Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography

This story ran as a serial in 1852 in the New York Sunday Dispatch, and for more than 160 years was buried in obscurity, unknown to the world as novel written by Walt Whitman. Zachary Turpin, a graduate student...

Margaret Espaillat 4 hours 7 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Gerhart Hauptmann - Atlantis

Frederick von Kammacher is a young doctor in Germany whose wife has gone insane, whose children are in a boarding school, and whose career has been destroyed by some faulty research he has done. He becomes infatuated...

Margaret Espaillat 13 hours 59 minutes

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Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales (version 2)

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

388

Charles Perrault - Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales (version 2)

The Sleeping Beauty, Bluebeard, Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast. All stories we of course have heard many times. But these are retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in a unique way that keeps the flavor of the...

Kathleen Flanary and 3 more 2 hours 37 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

360

Theodor Fontane - Effi Briest (abridged)

Effi Briest is a classic of Prussian Realism, relatively unknown in the English speaking world, but widely taught in German schools. This tragic tale tells the story of Effi, a young woman from an old and respectable...

Margaret Espaillat 8 hours 51 minutes

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Memoirs

386

John Hay - Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 2)

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 2...

Denise Nordell and 12 more 13 hours 6 minutes Abraham Lincoln: A History in 10 Volumes

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Biography & Autobiography

393

Millicent Garrett Fawcett - Some Eminent Women of our Times

Written by Millicent Garrett, a noted British feminist, suffragist and intellectual writer, this volume is comprised of short biographical sketches of 23 influential women from Jane Austen and Elizabeth Barrett...

Pamela Nagami and 13 more 8 hours 47 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

339

Joseph Hergesheimer - Java Head

Java Head is a novel of the American merchant marine at the beginning of the great clipper ship era. It is laid in Salem, when that city was still a port rich with the traffic of the East Indies; a story of choleric...

Margaret Espaillat 7 hours 51 minutes

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Literary Fiction

351

Thomas Mann - Royal Highness

Royal Highness is the story of Prince Klaus Heinrich, a member of a struggling German duchy and an exotic American heiress who comes to live as his neighbor. The novel is a microcosm of Europe before World War I, with...

Margaret Espaillat 13 hours

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Published 1900 onward

353

William Alexander Gerhardi - Futility: A Novel on Russian Themes

From the preface written by Edith Wharton: Then I fell upon Futility. Some one said: “It's another new novel about Russia” –and every one of my eager feelers curled up in a tight knot of refusal. But... I read on,...

Margaret Espaillat 6 hours 50 minutes

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Modern

354

Robert G. Ingersoll - Mistakes of Moses

Robert G. Ingersoll was an extremely popular humanist orator in the late nineteenth century, and he wrote Mistakes of Moses after many bootlegged versions of his speeches had been published and circulated. In Mistakes...

Margaret Espaillat 5 hours 58 minutes

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Plays

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Augusta Stevenson - Children's Classics in Dramatic Form

This is a collection of short stories by the Brothers Grimm, Aesop, Anderson, and more authors, turned into short children's plays by Augusta Stevenson. This collection has seventeen plays in which characters come...

Margaret Espaillat 3 hours 5 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Peter Hempson Ditchfield - Books Fatal to Their Authors

This is a collection of stories of authors who have lost their fortunes and sometimes their lives after writing a book. The liberty of a person's conscience was unknown in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Why...

Anna Simon and 6 more 5 hours 44 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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