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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
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Curiosities of Street Literature
This is a collection of broadsides from London. Broadsides are short, popular publications, a precursor to today's tabloid journalism. The collection contains sensationalist and sometimes comical stories about...
Ed Humpal
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General Fiction
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Wilkie Collins - After Dark
William Kerby is in danger of losing his sight, which would hit him especially hard as he is a painter. Only rest can preserve it, but a man must eat, and so he and his wife Leah look for other ways to generate a...
Anna Simon
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15 hours
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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales
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Howard Pyle - Story of the Champions of the Round Table
The second of four volumes of Pyles' retelling of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, which tells the stories of Percival, Tristram, and Launcelot of the Lake. — Summary by Maggie Travers
Maggie Travers
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Christianity - Other
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Jeremy Taylor - Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying
Written by a Church of England clergyman in the time of Cromwell, this work is praised for both its style and content. Taylor's work was much admired by John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, for its devotional...
KHand
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10 hours
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Published 1800 -1900
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Guy de Maupassant - Mont Oriol: or A Romance of Auvergne
Young bride Christiane arrives in Auvergne to «take the waters» with her husband, described as «a sickly flower, or a sucking pig with its hair shaved off.» But rather than the relaxing family vacation she expects,...
Lisa Reichert
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Biography & Autobiography
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Bram Stoker - Famous Impostors
Aliases. Fraudsters. Confidence tricksters. People pretending to be what they are not, for financial, political or personal gain. Fiction is filled with them to entertain us; but would not be anywhere near as...
Bridget Paul
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Art, Design & Architecture
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Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 5
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri, as it was...
MorganScorpion
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8 hours
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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari, Volumes 1-7
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Literary Fiction
459
W. Somerset Maugham - Hero
James Parsons comes home to Little Primpton after serving in the Boer War. The whole town is proud of their new hero, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for risking his life to save a fellow soldier. However, for...
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Literary Fiction
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W. Somerset Maugham - Explorer
An early novel by W. Somerset Maugham about conflicting feelings of self-integrity, filial love, romantic love. Lucy Allerton and Alec MacKenzie have to choose between grasping happiness that is their due and...
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Literary Fiction
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W. Somerset Maugham - Trembling of a Leaf
A collection of short stories on the South Sea Islands, among which are the famous «Red,» «Rain,» and «The Fall of Edward Barnard,» the last of which contains the basic story of what came to be one of the most...
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Short Stories
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Short Story Collection Vol. 064
This collection comprises 20 short stories of various genres, chosen by the readers. Contributions include works from Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Ray Bradbury, Anton Chekhov, and Gustave Flaubert, among...
Newgatenovelist
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7 hours
31 minutes
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*Non-fiction
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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 044
Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include wives, widows, and women scorned--the «Baby Doe Tabor» scandal, the trials of literary marriages, and colonial...
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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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