Margaret Espaillat

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Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 2

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Moncure Daniel Conway - Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 2

Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist, Unitarian, clergyman and author. This second volume of his autobiography covers the years from the US Civil War to roughly 1904. (Summary by JoeD)

Guero and 9 more 16 hours 52 minutes

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General Fiction

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Helen Hunt Jackson - Ramona

Ramona, a novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson (1884), is the story of a part-Scottish and part-Native American orphan girl growing up and getting married in Southern California, suffering racial discrimination and...

Elli and 6 more 15 hours 49 minutes

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General Fiction

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Edith Wharton - Fruit of the Tree

When published in 1907, this novel about the lives of a wealthy mill owner, her socially progressive husband and friends caused a stir due to its treatment of drug abuse, mercy killing, divorce and second marriages....

Margaret Espaillat 15 hours 35 minutes

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Detective Fiction

507

Lock and Key Library

A collection of classic mystery and detective stories, collected and edited by Julian Hawthorne. Note: the second chapter of Dickens’ The Haunted House is not included in this edition. (Summary by Julie VW)

Julie VW and 4 more 14 hours 33 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

544

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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Short Stories

469

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Our Old Home

These essays, based on Hawthorne’s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were first published in the form of a series of travel articles for The Atlantic Monthly. In these writings, he...

Margaret Espaillat 13 hours 10 minutes

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Memoirs

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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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Literary Fiction

434

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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*Non-fiction

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Henry Morgenthau - Ambassador Morgenthau's Story

Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important primary historical resource for the study of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire...

Margaret Espaillat 12 hours 38 minutes

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General Fiction

443

William Dean Howells - Rise of Silas Lapham

The Rise of Silas Lapham is the most widely read of W.D. Howells’ novels. An example of literary realism, the story is about a farmer (Silas Lapham) who launches a very successful paint business, and moves his...

BumbleVee and 1 more 12 hours 35 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

474

Harry Leon Wilson - Merton of the Movies

Merton of the Movies is a comedy that centers around Merton Gill, an aspiring dramatic artist from Simsbury, Illinois who makes his way to Hollywood to become a serious actor. How could Merton fail in attaining his...

Margaret Espaillat 12 hours 15 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Giles Lytton Strachey - Eminent Victorians

On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, «Eminent Victorians» marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which...

Margaret Espaillat 12 hours 2 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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