Mike Pelton

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Science Fiction

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H. G. Wells - Time Machine (Version 4)

The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 for the first time and later adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large...

Paul Adams and 3 more 3 hours 47 minutes

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Single author

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Clark Ashton Smith - Ebony and Crystal

As stated in L'Alouette: A Magazine of Verse, «Ebony and Crystal is an artist's intrepid repudiation of the world of trolleys and cash-registers, Freudian complexes and Binet-Simon tests, for realms of exalted and...

Mike Pelton and 14 more 3 hours 46 minutes

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Political Science

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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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H. G. Wells - Story of the Days to Come

Set in London in the early 22nd century, this novella depicts the troubles of two lovers, Denton and Elizabeth. Elizabeth is a well-to-do woman with many connections, but Denton is only a middle-class worker....

Dennis Blake and 3 more 3 hours 35 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Col. William F. Cody - Adventures of Buffalo Bill

Buffalo Bill was arguably, the most recognized man in the world when he penned this book. The first four stories are of some of his adventures and the remaining 6 are autobiographical. All of them have been proved to...

Phil Chenevert and 8 more 3 hours 33 minutes

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Health & Fitness

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - Guide to Health

Mahatma Gandhi, known today as a fascinating political leader and pacifist, also considered himself «something of an authority on matters of Health and Disease as well. Very few of us perhaps are aware that he is the...

Mike Pelton and 4 more 3 hours 27 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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Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Charles B. Cory - Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales

This is a collection of weird tales inspired from the natural history expeditions of the author, an independently wealthy bird collector, Olympic golfer, writer of many books on birds of the world, and, as evidenced...

T.E. McHenry and 4 more 3 hours 23 minutes

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Jefferson Bible - The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth

Bibles

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Thomas Jefferson - Jefferson Bible - The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth

The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, commonly referred to as the Jefferson Bible, was a book constructed by Thomas Jefferson in the later years of his life by cutting and pasting with a razor and glue numerous...

Nick Bulka and 3 more 3 hours 8 minutes

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Animals

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May E. Southworth - Great Small Cat and Others

A collection of seven tales about cats. Caution: Some of these tales have very sad endings. (Summary by MaryAnn)

Mary Kay and 6 more 3 hours 4 minutes

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Literary Fiction

Edgar Allan Poe - Journal of Julius Rodman

The Journal of Julius Rodman, Being an Account of the First Passage across the Rocky Mountains of North America Ever Achieved by Civilized Man is an unfinished serial novel by American author Edgar Allan Poe published...

Mike Pelton 2 hours 56 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Philip Francis Nowlan - Armageddon- 2419 A.D.

Elsewhere I have set down, for whatever interest they have in this, the 25th Century, my personal recollections of the 20th Century. Now it occurs to me that my memoirs of the 25th Century may have an equal interest...

Megan Argo and 6 more 2 hours 55 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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