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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jane Porter - Scottish Chiefs

An adventure novel about William Wallace, one of the most popular books ever written by Jane Porter. The French version was even banned by Napoleon, and the book has remained very popular with Scottish children,...

Shirley Ellen and 14 more 29 hours 51 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Saint Augustine of Hippo - Confessions (Pusey translation)

The Confessions outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography ever written, and was an influential model for Christian writers throughout...

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General Fiction

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Mrs. Henry Wood - East Lynne

Ellen Wood (1814-1887) was an English novelist, better known as Mrs. Henry Wood. She wrote over 30 novels, many of which (especially East Lynne which was a Victorian best seller and is still sometimes performed as a...

Sibella Denton and 20 more 21 hours 48 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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Theodore Bent - Southern Arabia

Southern Arabia recounts a threatening four-month journey into North Eastern Ethiopia by the Bents. These brave travelers were the first to travel without disguise in a region where Westerners had formerly been...

April Brown and 8 more 14 hours 27 minutes

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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 03. March 1896

Travel & Geography

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 03. March 1896

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the March Number. It includes the following articles: The So-Called Jeannette Relics, by Professor William H. Dall Nansen's Polar Expedition, by General...

Availle and 4 more 1 hour 39 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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Children's Fiction

Margaret Sidney - Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (Version 2)

The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew tells the story of how the Peppers live, learn, and play in their little brown house. They are poor, and Mamsie must work constantly to keep the wolf from the door but they do...

Sarah McClanahan and 9 more 6 hours 37 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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May Agnes Fleming - Midnight Queen

May Agnes Fleming is renowned as Canada's first best-selling novelist. She wrote 42 novels, many of which have only been published posthumously. The Midnight Queen is set in London, in the year of the plague 1665....

Annika Feilbach and 11 more 9 hours 23 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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H. G. Wells - Wheels of Chance

The Wheels of Chance — A Bicycling Idyll follows the adventures of a Drapers Assistant who, having brought an ancient bicycle, sets off on a 2 week tour of the countryside. And his world will never be the same...

Nick Gallant and 5 more 6 hours

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Essays & Short Works

Insomnia Collection Vol. 003

Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. However, it is hoped that at least one from the range of topics here presented...

TriciaG and 9 more 15 hours 48 minutes

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Literature in the Making, by Some of its Makers

Writing & Linguistics

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Joyce Kilmer - Literature in the Making, by Some of its Makers

This is a collection of 23 essays based on interviews conducted by Joyce Kilmer with some of the most famous authors of the time (1917). Kilmer's idea, as outlined in the Introduction, was that there is a deep divide...

BettyB and 10 more 5 hours 34 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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