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Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison

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James E. Seaver - Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison

Mrs. Mary Jemison was taken by the Indians, in the year 1755, when only about twelve years of age, and has continued to reside amongst them to the present time. Containing an account of the murder of her father and...

Barry Eads and 7 more 5 hours 2 minutes

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General Fiction

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Maria Thompson Daviess - Melting of Molly

Meet Molly: a quirky, spirited twenty-five-year old, widowed for 6 years, living in picturesque Hillsboro with her aunt amidst gossipy neighbors, on a strict diet, and in serious boy trouble. There's Arthur, her...

Elli and 5 more 2 hours 29 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Solitude (Wilcox)

«Laugh, and the world laughs with you; .. Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, .. But has trouble enough of its own.» Librivox volunteers bring you sixteen readings of...

Algy Pug and 15 more 25 minutes

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War & Military

436

Ward Muir - Observations of an Orderly

Ward Muir brings us into the heart of an English war hospital, describing scenes of cleanliness, triumph, order and sadness. Through the eyes of the orderly we get to see the processes that kept the wards running,...

skoval and 6 more 3 hours 51 minutes

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General

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Susan Coolidge - What Katy Did Next

This is the third book of the famous «What Katy did» series. (Summary by Elli)

Neeru Iyer and 11 more 5 hours 17 minutes Katy Did Series

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Published 1800 -1900

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George Gissing - New Grub Street

«The story deals with the literary world that Gissing himself had experienced. Its title refers to the London street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synomynous with hack literature; as an institution,...

Bridget Gaige and 10 more 19 hours 34 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Thornton W. Burgess - Mother West Wind 'Why' Stories

Thornton W. Burgess was a conservationist and prolific author of children's books. His gently humorous stories about the animals of the meadows and woods teach little lessons about getting along with others; they are...

Neeru Iyer and 8 more 2 hours 53 minutes

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Ned Wayburn - Art of Stage Dancing

Ned Wayburn, a popular and outstanding choreographer of the early 1900's, writes about the different styles and requirements of dancing and his way of teaching it.

Jill Janovetz and 15 more 12 hours 43 minutes

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General Fiction

450

Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Erema

A few years before the great Civil War, a young English woman and her father, having left the security of their wagon train, are lost in the unforgiving Californian desert, looking in vain for the landmark that marks...

Linda Dodge and 4 more 17 hours 43 minutes

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General Fiction

475

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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Mamie Dickens - My Father As I Recall Him

«If, in these pages, written in remembrance of my father, I should tell you, my dear friends, nothing new of him, I can, at least, promise you that what I shall tell will be told faithfully, if simply, and perhaps...

Laura Caldwell and 5 more 2 hours 7 minutes

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General Fiction

565

Wilkie Collins - Armadale

The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a...

David Barnes and 19 more 31 hours 38 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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