Michael Reuss

16 books

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Francis Rolt-Wheeler - Science - History of the Universe Vol. 3: Physics & Electricity

Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The third volume is on physics written by George Matthew and on electricity written by Professor William J. Moore. The section on physics covers matter —...

MaryAnn and 7 more 10 hours 44 minutes

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Family Life

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Sabine Baring-Gould - Pennycomequicks

The Pennycomequicks is the charming and witty story of a dysfunctional English family in the late 19th century, scattered to the winds, scarred and battered by human and Divine tragedy, struggling for sustenance of...

Michael Reuss 16 hours 40 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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G. K. Chesterton - Flying Inn

The Flying Inn is a novel first published in 1914 by G.K. Chesterton. It is set in a future England where a bizarre form of «Progressive» Islam has triumphed and largely dominates the political and social life of...

Charles Bice and 12 more 9 hours 46 minutes

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Short Stories

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - White Nights & Other Stories

White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a compilation published in 1918 by The MacMillan Company, NY (USA) and Heinemann (UK). It contains these 7 works: — White Nights — Notes from the...

Jennifer Anne Shivel and 10 more 12 hours 48 minutes

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Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Part 1

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Charles Darwin - Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Part 1

A book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great book on evolutionary theory, following his 1859 work, On The Origin of Species. In The Descent...

Denny Sayers and 11 more 10 hours 17 minutes Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

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Political Science

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Edmund Burke - Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France is a 1790 book by Edmund Burke, one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the (then-infant) French Revolution. In the twentieth century, it much influenced conservative...

Michael Reuss 10 hours 48 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Alexandre Dumas - Count of Monte Cristo (version 2)

The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and the Levant during the historical events of 1815–1838 (from just before the Hundred Days through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France). The...

Delmar H Dolbier and 38 more 49 hours 49 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes was a British TV series from the early 70s that dramatized stories written contemporaneously with the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This anthology contains twelve of...

Beth Thomas and 12 more 11 hours 3 minutes

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

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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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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Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 1

Biography & Autobiography

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Moncure Daniel Conway - Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 1

Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist, Unitarian, clergyman and author. This first volume of his autobiography covers roughly the years of his birth through the end of the US Civil War. (Summary by JoeD)

TriciaG and 9 more 19 hours 16 minutes

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General Fiction

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Mark Twain - Gilded Age, A Tale of Today

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. The term gilded age , commonly given to the era,...

TriciaG and 19 more 17 hours 8 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Baroness Emma Orczy - League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Written by Baroness Orczy and first published in 1919, The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. The book consists of eleven short stories about Sir...

Edward W. LaBonte and 7 more 8 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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