Mary Schneider

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Children's Fiction

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Elbridge Streeter Brooks - Historic Girls

Twelve short stories of real girls who have influenced the history of their times. (Summary by Carmen H)

Carmen H and 7 more 4 hours 49 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

487

Daniel Garrison Brinton - Myths of the New World

The Myths of the New World's full title describes it as… " a treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America", an attempt to analyse and correlate scientifically, the mythology of the...

Travis Hamon and 10 more 8 hours 22 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Agnes Repplier - In Our Convent Days

With her usual wit and charm, Ms. Repplier recalls her days at Eden Hall, the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Torresdale, north of Philadelphia. She shares the highlights (and some of the low lights) of her time there....

Mary Schneider 4 hours 14 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

441

Elia Wilkinson Peattie - Precipice

Elia Peattie was an outspoken journalist and social activist who gave her attention to such areas as orphanages, charity hospitals, the Wounded Knee massacre, capital punishment, and the like. The Precipice is...

Mary Schneider 10 hours 55 minutes

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*Non-fiction

407

William H. Herndon - Herndon's Lincoln

A biography of Abraham Lincoln by his long-time law partner, William Herndon and Herndon's collaborator, Jesse Weik. The book is notable for its extensive use of first hand interviews (unusual for its time) and for...

Ralph Kerwin and 9 more 19 hours 5 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

462

John Ruskin - Two Paths

«The Two Paths» is a collection of five lectures delivered in 1858 and 1859 by John Ruskin on art and architecture. This is how the author himself presents the book: «The following addresses, though spoken at...

Michael Packard and 3 more 6 hours 1 minute

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431

Sigmund Freud - Psychopathology of Everyday Life

Professor Freud developed his system of psychoanalysis while studying the so-called borderline cases of mental diseases, such as hysteria and compulsion neurosis. By discarding the old methods of treatment and...

Mary Schneider 7 hours 15 minutes

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 6

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

472

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 6

In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in...

Leni and 15 more 11 hours 50 minutes Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

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Sigmund Freud - Totem and Taboo

Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud published in German in 1913 under the title Totem und Tabu: Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden...

Mary Schneider 6 hours 24 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Short Science Fiction Collection 037

Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The...

NickNumber and 5 more 7 hours 33 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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Historical Fiction

487

Howard Pyle - Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

Swashbuckling tales of legendary pirates, buccaneers, and marooners, terrors of the Spanish Main.(Summary by Epistomolus)

Epistomolus and 4 more 8 hours 12 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

459

Flavius Philostratus - Life of Apollonius of Tyana

Apollonius of Tyana (ca. 40-120 AD) was a Greek Pythagorean philosopher and teacher. He hailed from the town of Tyana in the Roman province of Cappadocia in Asia Minor. His date of birth is a matter of conjecture as...

Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit and 5 more 18 hours 19 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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