Mike Pelton

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Short Stories

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Barry Pain - Stories without Tears

This is a collection of short stories by Barry Pain, first published in 1914. While generally best-known for his horror and supernatural fiction, Barry Pain turns to general fiction, mystery, and humour in this...

Kate Follis and 15 more 10 hours 14 minutes

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Psychology

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Wilhelm Stekel - Depths of the Soul

Wilhelm Stekel was an Austrian physician and psychologist and one of Freud’s earliest followers. This title, originally published in 1921, was the author’s favorite of his own work. Covering a variety of topics he...

Lee Smalley and 11 more 6 hours 14 minutes

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War & Military

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Heywood Broun - Our Army at the Front

During the US deployment in Europe in the final years of the Great War (WWI), the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) was accompanied by notable New York Tribune war correspondent, Heywood Broun. Although Broun better...

Delmar H Dolbier and 9 more 6 hours 38 minutes

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Plays

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Gladys Davidson - Stories From The Operas

«Owing to the appreciation which has been accorded to my three series of „Stories from the Operas,“ it has been decided to re-issue the collection in one volume, and to include in this additional stories of new and...

JoeBlu and 16 more 19 hours 2 minutes

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Life in the Sick-room: Essays by an Invalid

Essays & Short Works

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Harriet Martineau - Life in the Sick-room: Essays by an Invalid

Thinking she would be ill for the rest of her life, Harriet Martineau wrote these partly autobiographical essays about life in the sickroom. Considered ground breaking, it asserted that the sickroom is the sick...

MaryAnn and 6 more 5 hours 15 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Gertrude Landa - Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends

«My desire is to give boys and girls something Jewish which they may be able to regard as companion delights to the treasury of general fairy-lore and childish romance.» from the preface. These tales deal with the...

Mike Pelton and 8 more 5 hours 33 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Hesba Stretton - Fern's Hollow

Ferns Hollow is the sad, but sweet story of a young boy who tragically loses his parents and has to care for his two sisters and crazed grandfather. He finds himself in many difficult situations which test his faith...

Matthew Johnson and 2 more 4 hours 35 minutes

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Self-Help

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Emory Adams Allen - Golden Gems of Life

Life is full of ups and downs, joys and trials. In this work, we are advised on how to deal with what fate deals us, the good and bad, the common and uncommon. Home, childhood, success and failure, perseverance,...

Lynne T and 24 more 19 hours 39 minutes

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Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (version 2)

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Nathaniel Hawthorne - Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (version 2)

THE author has long been of opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being rendered into very capital reading for children. In the little volume here offered to the public, he has worked up half a...

Mike Pelton and 7 more 5 hours 34 minutes

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Literary Criticism

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H. L. Mencken - American Language

«It was part of my daily work, for a good many years, to read the principal English newspapers and reviews; it has been part of my work, all the time, to read the more important English novels, essays, poetry and...

DrPGould and 10 more 15 hours 41 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

James Macdonald Oxley - My Strange Rescue

An anthology of short stories, anecdotes and observations of sport and adventure in Canada. Tobogganing, snowshoeing, ice skating and hockey all feature, along with other cold-weather pursuits.

brianna and 14 more 9 hours 50 minutes

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General Fiction

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Stanley G. Weinbaum - Dark Other

The Dark Other is a horror novel by Stanley G. Weinbaum. The novel concerns Patricia Lane who is in love with Nicholas Devine, a quiet and gentle writer. Devine undergoes sudden changes becoming cold and calculating....

Dan Gurzynski and 5 more 5 hours 57 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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