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Ida M. Tarbell - Business of Being a Woman

How were women's roles changing in the 1900's? Ida Tarbell explores this in a well written, witty and insightful series of essays. «The object of this little volume is to call attention to a certain distrust, which...

MaryAnn and 7 more 3 hours 46 minutes

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Sermons on Several Occasions, Third-Fifth Series

Literary Collections

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John Wesley - Sermons on Several Occasions, Third-Fifth Series

John Wesley, along with his brother Charles, are credited with founding the Methodist denomination. «The following Sermons contain the substance of what I have been preaching for between eight and nine years last...

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Children's Non-fiction

458

Rosalie Kaufman - Our Young Folks' Plutarch

Plutarch's Lives is a series of fifty biographies of famous Greek and Roman men written around 100 AD. In Our Young Folks' Plutarch , Rosalie Kaufman has adapted these biographies for young readers. In the preface...

April Walters and 14 more 18 hours 40 minutes

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British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Wirt Sikes - British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions

The British Isles, in particular Wales, are renowned for legend and folklore. The author, an American journalist working in Europe, was appointed Consul to Wales and thus began his fascination with Welsh folklore....

Lynne T and 11 more 11 hours 28 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Susan Coolidge - On the Shore

Librivox volunteers bring you 15 readings of On the Shore by Susan Coolidge, author of What Katy Did . This was the weekly poem for the week of March 1, 2015. — Summary by Rachel

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Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front

War & Military

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Mary Roberts Rinehart - Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front

A personal account of the American author's visit to Europe in January 1915 while a war correspondent in Belgium for The Saturday Evening Post. She writes: «War is not two great armies meeting in a clash and frenzy of...

Mary in Arkansas and 11 more 10 hours 27 minutes

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Christianity - Other

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Harriet Beecher Stowe - Religious Studies, Sketches and Poems

Best known for having written «Uncle Tom's Cabin,» Harriet Beecher Stowe also wrote several religious works, including the works in this book. The first section (Religious Studies) was originally published as...

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Ambrose Bierce - Cobwebs from an Empty Skull

Ambrose Bierce's collection of short parables, published under the pen name of Dod Grile, is similar to Aesop's Fables. This compilation is comprised of «Fables of Zambri, the Parsee,» «Brief Seasons of Intellectual...

Larry Wilson and 10 more 6 hours 3 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Nathaniel Parker Willis - Declaration

Nathaniel Parker Willis is also known as N. P. Willis. He was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became...

Bruce Kachuk and 8 more 15 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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J. M. Barrie - Sentimental Tommy

«J. M. Barrie is most noted for being the author of Peter Pan, the beloved book about a child who does not want to grow up. The two Tommy novels, as they are collectively referred to, are also about a child who does...

Sandra Cullum and 10 more 11 hours 45 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Emma Lazarus - Off Rough Point

Emma Lazarus was an American poet born in New York City. She is best known for «The New Colossus», a sonnet written in 1883; its lines appear on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty placed in 1903....

elliot and 18 more 27 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - North and South (version 3)

North and South is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the North of England. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural south, Margaret Hale settles with her parents in Milton where she witnesses the...

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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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