Peter Yearsley

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 063

This collection comprises 20 short stories of various genres, chosen by the readers. Authors include Saki, Lord Dunsany, Rudyard Kipling, Rex Beach, Banjo Paterson, Chekhov and Montesquieu.

Peter Yearsley and 10 more 6 hours 24 minutes Short Story Collections

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Poetry

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Kingdom of Love

This is a volume of poetry by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, named after the poem 'the Kingdom of Love'. — Summary by Carolin

Michele Fry and 11 more 2 hours 38 minutes

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Mathematics

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Charles Howard Hinton - Fourth Dimension

«Mr Hinton tries to explain the theory of the fourth dimension so that the ordinary reasoning mind can get a grasp of what metaphysical mathematicians mean by it. If he is not altogether successful, it is not from...

Peter Yearsley 9 hours 5 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Laurence Hope - Kashmiri Song

Adela Florence Nicolson (née Cory) was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope. Her father was employed in the British army at Lahore and she left for India in 1881 to join her father. In 1901,...

Ashley and 14 more 17 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Loretta Ellen Brady - Green Forest Fairy Book

This is a volume of original fairy tales by Loretta Ellen Brady. — Summary by Carolin

Peter Yearsley and 9 more 5 hours 49 minutes

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Rabindranath Tagore - First Jasmines

Rabindranath Tagore, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its «profoundly...

Andrew Coleman and 13 more 22 minutes

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Thomas Hood - Death-bed

Thomas Hood was an English poet, author, and humourist, best known for poems such as The Bridge of Sighs and The Song of the Shirt. Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, the Athenaeum, and Punch. He later...

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Chemistry

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Thomas Thomson - History of Chemistry

Origin and progress of chemistry, from its beginnings in alchemy into the early 19th century including history and characters of important contributors to the science. (Summary by Sienna)

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General Fiction

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Coffee Break Collection 011 - Science

This is the eleventh collection of our «coffee break» series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to...

Larry Wilson and 13 more 2 hours 44 minutes Coffee Break Collections

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Single Author Collections

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Saki - Chronicles of Clovis

This is the third collection of short stories by Saki, following on from “Reginald” and “Reginald in Russia”. Although some of the stories have characters that do not appear elsewhere in the collection, many of them...

Anna Simon and 14 more 6 hours 9 minutes

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Family Life

William Ruschenberger - Elements of Mammalogy

The Elements of Mammalogy is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This succinct little textbook from 1845 presents an introduction to mammalogy. The...

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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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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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