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Junior Classics Volume 6: Old-Fashioned Tales

Action & Adventure

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William Patten - Junior Classics Volume 6: Old-Fashioned Tales

This collection of The Junior Classics is compiled from many wonderful authors including Alcott, Dickens, Hawthorne, and Carroll. The stories are suitable for all ages and as with the rest of the series include the...

Ariphron and 16 more 14 hours 32 minutes The Junior Classics

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Junior Classics Volume 2: Folk Tales & Myths

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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William Patten - Junior Classics Volume 2: Folk Tales & Myths

Compilation of tales designed and arranged for young people. This volume covers tales from the North, the Rhine, Greece and Rome, tales from the Hudson River, and animal stories. — Summary by DrPGould

DrPGould and 15 more 14 hours 28 minutes The Junior Classics

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Laura Valentine - Old Old Fairy Tales

«Once upon a time a king had an extreme passion for silkworms...» So begins one story in this unusual collection. Here you may also find a farm girl cursed by becoming a queen, a prince blessed with having his every...

Charlie Grey and 13 more 13 hours 15 minutes

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War & Military

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George Barton - Angels of the Battlefield

«Angels of the Battlefield: A History of the Labors of the Catholic Sisterhoods in the Late Civil War» chronicles the compassionate services of these dedicated women during the bitter and bloody U.S. Civil War. These...

Larry Wilson and 13 more 12 hours 55 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Letters from Victorian Pioneers

A series of letters on the early occupation of the colony, the Aborigines, etc addressed by Victorian pioneers to his Excellency Charles Joseph La Trobe Esq., Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Victoria in response...

Beth Thomas and 15 more 12 hours 44 minutes

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Poetry

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Jean de La Fontaine - Fables of La Fontaine

Jean de la Fontaine's fables were very well-known all over Europe during his life, and are now slowly being rediscovered. This edition contains 240 fables or fairy tales and a biography of Jean de la Fontaine and...

RogerMathewson and 19 more 11 hours 57 minutes

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Memoirs

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E. E. Cummings - Enormous Room

«For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.» He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation. He was entombed by the...

Nemo and 4 more 10 hours 46 minutes

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Animals & Nature

Frances Jenkins Olcott - Wonder Garden

«Here are 150 nature myths and short stories from all parts of the World. They are the kind that children delight in — tales of transformations of maidens into trees and fountains, of youths into flowers, and of men...

Debbie R. Baker Robinson and 36 more 10 hours 46 minutes

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Lane that had no Turning, and Other Tales concerning the People of Pontiac

Short Stories

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Gilbert Parker - Lane that had no Turning, and Other Tales concerning the People of Pontiac

This is a collection of short stories by Gilbert Parker. Parker was a Canadian writer who wrote a number of bestsellers that had a lasting influence on Canadian literature, but whose importance for his time is now...

Michele Fry and 7 more 10 hours 25 minutes

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School

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Edmondo de Amicis - Heart: a Schoolboy's Journal

Little Enrico Bottini is a ten year-old third grade student in Italy who keeps a diary for one whole school year. It records the general problems, excitements, and successes any third grader might deal with, all...

Kathrine Engan and 6 more 10 hours 18 minutes

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Literary Criticism

William Hazlitt - Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

This famous Shakespearean exploration illuminates its plays through the frame of character, while also weighing theme, mood, structure and poetics. In it, 19th-century critic William Hazlitt unveils Shakespeare's...

Nemo and 1 more 10 hours 15 minutes

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Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Volume 2

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Songling Pu - Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Volume 2

«Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio» or «Strange Tales of Liaozhai» is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical...

Nick J. Gold and 18 more 9 hours 50 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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