MaryAnn

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Biography & Autobiography

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Edmund Gosse - Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh's plan in 1584 for colonization in the «Colony and Dominion of Virginia» (which included the present-day states of North Carolina and Virginia) in North America ended in failure at Roanoke Island,...

musil and 7 more 7 hours 43 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

487

William Shakespeare - Witches' Brew (MacBeth Act IV Scene I)

Librivox volunteers bring you seven readings of The Witches' Brew from Act IV Scene I of MacBeth, by William Shakespeare. This was the weekly poetry project for October 26, 2014.

Ian King and 6 more 16 minutes

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General Fiction

445

Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors

A 1908 NaNoWriMo forerunner, told in twelve chapters, each with a different author. The basic plot was to show how an engagement or marriage would affect and be affected by an entire family. The project became...

Tom Lennon and 11 more 7 hours 32 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

467

T. S. Arthur - Off-Hand Sketches

The reader cannot but smile at some of the phases of life presented in this volume. Yet the smile will, in no case, the author thinks, be at the expense of humanity, good feeling, or virtue. Many of the incidents...

TriciaG and 9 more 5 hours 2 minutes

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Romance

466

Payne Erskine - Mountain Girl

A delightful love-story, genuinely American in feeling and treatment. The story is stirring, the heroine is ideal. (Summary by the Chicago Tribune, from time of publishing)

MaryAnn and 8 more 12 hours 51 minutes

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*Non-fiction

554

Charles E. Jefferson - Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers

Charles Edward Jefferson was pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle in Brooklyn, New York for 33 years. In Quiet Hints, published in 1901, he provided guidance to young preachers on what we would today call ministerial...

MaryAnn 3 hours 30 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

490

Madison Cawein - September

Librivox volunteers bring you ten readings of September by Madison Cawein. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 21st, 2014.

Algy Pug and 9 more 12 minutes

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 2

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 2

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...

Jc Guan and 10 more 10 hours 29 minutes Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

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*Non-fiction

523

W. Somerset Maugham - On a Chinese Screen

This is a non-fiction collection of Maugham's observations of life in Asia in the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times and 7 more 5 hours 8 minutes

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General Fiction

559

Elizabeth Inchbald - Simple Story

The story could really have been simple: Miss Milner, who is admired for her beauty and charm, could have been a socialite, marry a respectable and good looking man and be happy in the standards of her time. But if...

MaryAnn and 11 more 11 hours 5 minutes

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Detective Fiction

512

J. S. Fletcher - Chestermarke Instinct

Bank manager John Hornbury is missing, as are securities and jewels from the bank’s vault. Gabriel Chestermarke and his nephew Joseph have unaccountably refused to call in the police to investigate the theft from...

MaryAnn 7 hours 21 minutes

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Detective Fiction

516

Mary Roberts Rinehart - Man in Lower Ten

Someone had to take the bank notes to Pittsburgh and take a statement from John Gilmore confirming that they were indeed forged. It was McKnight's turn to go, but he was bagging off because he wanted to spend the...

MaryAnn 6 hours 15 minutes

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New

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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