Nadine Eckert-Boulet

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Humorous Fiction

458

Chester K. Steele - Diamond Cross Mystery

Colonel Ashley is confronted with a difficult case: The proprietor of a jewelry shop is found murdered, and a valuable diamond cross is stolen. Whodunnit, and how can the Colonel's expertise in fishing help to solve...

ashleighjane and 10 more 6 hours 38 minutes

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Around the World in Eighty Days (version 3)

Action & Adventure Fiction

543

Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days (version 3)

Enigmatic Phileas Fogg accepts a wager about whether it's possible to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days or under. The book charts his adventures on the way. (Alex Foster)

Alex Foster and 12 more 6 hours 33 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

511

Jules Verne - Facing the Flag

Like The Begum's Millions, which Verne published in 1879, it has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon (what would now be called a weapon of mass destruction) with the threat finally...

John Kooz and 2 more 6 hours 11 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

559

Anonymous - Sketches Of The Fair Sex

Sketches of the fair sex, in all parts of the world. To which are added rules for determining the precise figure, the degree of beauty, the habits, and the age of women, notwithstanding the aids and disguise of dress....

Colman Shew and 14 more 6 hours 6 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

504

Heywood Broun - Pieces of Hate and other Enthusiasms

This book is a collection of humorous short stories about ordinary instances in daily life. We learn many interesting things about life, such as how to court women successfully, what it feels like to be a god, and why...

Phil Chenevert and 13 more 6 hours 5 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

444

Sabine Baring-Gould - Book of Werewolves

A survey of the myths and legends concerning lycanthropy from ancient times to the Victorian Era. (Summary by A. Gramour)

John Fricker and 9 more 5 hours 42 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

457

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 017

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, science, cooking, economics,...

Piper Hayes and 9 more 5 hours 30 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Animals

508

Pliny the Elder - Natural History Volume 2

Naturalis Historia (Latin for «Natural History») is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman empire to the modern day and...

Chris Danes and 17 more 4 hours 43 minutes The Natural History by Pliny

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Lafcadio Hearn - In Ghostly Japan

This collection of 14 stories collected by Lafcadio Hearn, contains Japanese ghost stories, but also several non-fiction pieces. Hearn tries to give a glimpse into the customs of the Japanese, by giving examples of...

Nadine Eckert-Boulet and 5 more 4 hours 33 minutes

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General Fiction

449

Wilkie Collins - Guilty River

After his father’s death Gerard Roylake returns from Germany to take up his inheritance at Trimley Deen. On one evening he meets his childhood friend, Cristel Toller. They fall in love, but there is a crux. A deaf...

Ernst Pattynama and 5 more 4 hours 28 minutes

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Kottō : being Japanese curios, with sundry cobwebs

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Lafcadio Hearn - Kottō : being Japanese curios, with sundry cobwebs

Kottō contains 20 Japanese stories, collected from different sources and translated by Lafcadio Hearn. The types of stories in this collection are widespread: There are old ghost stories Hearn is best known for (The...

Scott Carpenter and 8 more 4 hours 19 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Peter Christen Asbjørnsen - East of the Sun and West of the Moon

Once on a time there was a poor husbandman who had so many children that he hadn’t much of either food or clothing to give them. Pretty children they all were, but the prettiest was the youngest daughter, who was so...

Magdalena and 12 more 3 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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