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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 025

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, humor, travel, philosophy,...

NoelBadrian and 9 more 4 hours 27 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 028

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, slavery, science, education, humor,...

Sue Anderson and 12 more 4 hours 26 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Poetry

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Omar Khayyám - Quatrains of Omar Khayyam of Nishapur

In 1906, Eben Francis Thompson,scholar and poet, published a limited edition of his translation of the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam. This edition contains 878 quatrains, and represents the most extensive translation of...

Algy Pug and 6 more 4 hours 17 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Mr. Harrison's Confessions

It is asserted that the inspiration for Elizabeth Gaskell's marvellous stories of Cranford was her childhood home of Knutsford, a small town in Cheshire and to where she returned for a while as a young woman. This...

NoelBadrian 3 hours 49 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Oscar Wilde - House of Pomegranates (version 2)

A House of Pomegranates (1891) is the title of the second collection of Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde. This book contains four tales: 1. «The Young King»; which is about taking responsibility. 2. «The Birthday of the...

NoelBadrian 3 hours 43 minutes

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Single author

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Marietta Holley - Poems

This is a collection of poems by Marietta Holley, better known as Josiah Allen's Wife. — Summary by Carolin

Ian King and 18 more 3 hours 35 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Edna Adelaide Brown - Chinese Kitten

Lucy and Dora are so excited to learn they will be sleeping in a tent at the beach! Then Mother and Uncle Dan tell them that their kitten, Timmy is not invited, and Father says he might even run away. Arrangements...

Jennifer Dallman and 8 more 3 hours 24 minutes The Silver Bear

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Outa Karel’s Stories: South African Folk-Lore Tales

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Sanni Metelerkamp - Outa Karel’s Stories: South African Folk-Lore Tales

Sanni Metelerkamp was a South African playwright and author born in 1867. She is well known for her biography of her great-grandfather, George Rex, the British born entrepreneur who founded the town of Knysna and was...

NoelBadrian 3 hours 8 minutes

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Single author

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Jefferys Taylor - Æsop in Rhyme, with Some Originals

Jefferys Taylor was born in 1792 in Suffolk, England. He became apprenticed to his father who was an engraver and invented a special ruling machine for engravers but went on to emulate his mother who was a children's...

NoelBadrian 3 hours 1 minute

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Essays & Short Works

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Mary Webb - Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing

Mary Webb was a novelist and poet and two of her novels «Gone to Earth» and «Precious Bane» have been successfully adapted for film and television. She was passionate about nature and particularly the Shropshire...

NoelBadrian 3 hours

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Anthologies

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J. Earl Clauson - Dog's Book of Verse

It is not surprising that dogs, beloved by so many, have received many poetic tributes throughout history. Here the author has gathered together short verses celebrating dogs. From the well-known poets to the...

Larry Wilson and 18 more 2 hours 56 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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W. S. Gilbert - Bab Ballads (version 2)

The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In...

Phil Chenevert and 13 more 2 hours 47 minutes

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