Margaret Espaillat

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General Fiction

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Upton Sinclair - Moneychangers

A story of white collar crime and intrigue told from the point of view of Montague, a member of the privileged class of New York. Montague witnesses the manipulation and upset of the stock market by high financier Dan...

Margaret Espaillat 6 hours 28 minutes

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Modern

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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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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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Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale Collection

Children's Fiction

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Hans Christian Andersen - Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale Collection

These are 25 fairy tales written by Hans Christian Andersen — A collection of something for everyone — the very popular stories, the less well-known stories and favorites, that both children and grownups can enjoy....

Lucy Perry and 15 more 4 hours 39 minutes

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Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography

Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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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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Humorous Fiction

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John Kendrick Bangs - Genial Idiot

John Kendrick Bangs once again takes us on a journey with the loveable, but somewhat self-opinionated and irritating Mr Idiot. (Summary by Michele Eaton)

Nigel Boydell and 6 more 3 hours 45 minutes

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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 1

Nature

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 1

National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 1 published in 1889. Topics of articles are: Announcement by the National Geographic Society Introductory Address by the President Geographic...

A. J. Carroll and 4 more 3 hours 40 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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Literary Fiction

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Edith Wharton - Bunner Sisters

“Bunner Sisters,” like “The Age of Innocence” is set in 1870s New York, however the lives of Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner reflect impoverished New York. The sisters run a «very small shop, in a shabby basement, in a...

Margaret Espaillat 3 hours 24 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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Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales (version 2)

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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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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Modern (20th C)

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Fa'iz El-Ghusein - Martyred Armenia

This is a first hand account of the Armenian Genocide written by a Syrian who had been a Turkish official for three and a half years. His accounts tell of the worst of humanity, and also of the noblest. The noble...

Margaret Espaillat 1 hour 33 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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