Mike Pelton

206 books

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

490

Sea Stories

Most of us have passed through a period of life during which we have ardently longed to be, if not actually a rover, a buccaneer, or a pirate, at least and really a sailor! To run away to sea has been the misdirected...

Lynne T and 12 more 11 hours 56 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

430

Israel Zangwill - Grotesques and Fantasies

A set of often funny, sometimes tragic stories by Israel Zangwill. Most famous for his scathingly accurate portrayals of the Jewish ghetto, these stories have a wider stage, poking fun at social conventions and...

Mike Pelton and 9 more 6 hours 39 minutes

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Political Science

514

Shield

This is not merely a book about the Russian Jews. It is a marvellous revelation of the Russian soul. It shows not only that the overwhelming majority of the Russian intellectuals, including nearly all of her brilliant...

Mike Pelton and 5 more 3 hours 45 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Ray Cummings - Astounding Stories 06, June 1930

Issue six of this seminal science-fiction magazine concludes the Ray Cummings story «Brigands of the Moon», and continues Murray Leinster's «Murder Madness». In addition there are three short stories, by various...

KHand and 5 more 8 hours 28 minutes Astounding Stories Magazines Issues 1-20

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International Short Stories Volume 1: American Stories

Anthologies

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William Patten - International Short Stories Volume 1: American Stories

The first volume of a 3 volume anthology, this work focuses on American short stories and draws from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anna Katherine Greene, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe and many other favorites. Topics...

Lynne T and 10 more 13 hours 33 minutes

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Florence Nightingale the Angel of the Crimea

General

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Laura E. Howe Richards - Florence Nightingale the Angel of the Crimea

One evening, some time after the great Crimean War of 1854-55, a company of military and naval officers met at dinner in London. They were talking over the war, as soldiers and sailors love to do, and somebody said:...

Denise Nordell and 8 more 3 hours 23 minutes

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General

442

Wayne Whipple - Story of Young Abraham Lincoln

This is a careful and fascinating collection of interviews with people who knew Lincoln as a boy and young man. A glimpse into the type of person he was from the very beginning. «All the world loves a lover»—and...

Kara Shallenberg and 7 more 4 hours 59 minutes

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Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Part 2: The Field of Ice

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Part 2: The Field of Ice

The novel, set in 1861, describes adventures of British expedition led by Captain John Hatteras to the North Pole. Hatteras is convinced that the sea around the pole is not frozen and his obsession is to reach the...

jciesielski and 3 more 4 hours 54 minutes

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Single Author Collections

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Lord Dunsany - Tales of Wonder

The Last Book of Wonder, originally published as Tales of Wonder, is the tenth book and sixth original short story collection of Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R....

Mike Pelton and 6 more 4 hours 20 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

444

H. De Vere Stacpoole - Beach of Dreams

Two sailors, Harbutt and Raft, discuss their plight as workers under the thumb of a wealthy owner. During a windstorm, Raft and his fellow hands must climb a mast of the three-master to control a rigging gone astray....

Lynne T and 5 more 7 hours 54 minutes

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General

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Rupert S. Holland - Historic Boyhoods

Most boys grow up to be honest, maybe even good, men, but do not stand out from the crowd. Occasionally, along comes a boy who is destined, either by character or circumstance, to make his mark on the world. In this...

Lynne T and 10 more 6 hours 56 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Ray Cummings - Astounding Stories 05, May 1930

The fifth issue of Astounding Stories continues the Ray Cummings serial «Brigands of the Moon», begins a 4 part novel by Murray Leinster, and presents a sequel by Sewell Peaslee Wright to his story in the March issue....

Mike Pelton and 3 more 8 hours 23 minutes Astounding Stories Magazines Issues 1-20

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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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