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Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches

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Cotton Mather - Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches

Here are first hand accounts, published in 1692, of the infamous «Salem Witch Trials». In addition to Mather's interpretation of the Book of Revelations (which he calls «God's last letter to the people of earth»),...

Michele Fry and 9 more 9 hours 1 minute

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Science Fiction

Lee Hawkins Garby - Skylark of Space (version 2)

The Skylark of Space is one of the earliest novels of interstellar travel and is considered a classic of pulp science fiction. Originally serialized in 1928 in the magazine Amazing Stories it is often categorized as...

Phil Chenevert 8 hours 59 minutes

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Sarah Knowles Bolton - Lives of Girls Who Became Famous

This book is a collection of short biographies of notable women, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Florence Nightingale, and many others. (Summary by Arielle Lipshaw)

Stephanie Lee and 12 more 8 hours 57 minutes

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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

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Jacob A. Riis - How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It...

Guero and 9 more 8 hours 50 minutes

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Fantasy Fiction

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Robert E. Howard - Hour of the Dragon (version 2)

This is absolutely the best Conan novel ever written in my opinion. It follows Conan when at the peak of his power as king of Aquilonia, he is overthrown by dark, evil magic from Stygia and turned into a hunted...

Phil Chenevert 8 hours 50 minutes Conan the Cimmerian

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General Fiction

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Eleanor H. Porter - Oh, Money! Money!

Mr. Stanley Fulton is worth millions, but he has no one to leave his money to except some unknown distant cousins. In order to find out how they would handle a fortune, he decides to give each of them $100,000 dollars...

Linda Lee Paquet and 7 more 8 hours 47 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Louis Joseph Vance - False Faces

This is the second book in the Lone Wolf series. Michael Lanyard had turned his back on his career as gentleman-thief and started a respectable life, when World War I wrecks his life. With his family dead and the spy...

William Tomcho and 7 more 8 hours 45 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Sabine Baring-Gould - Curiosities of Olden Times

This book is a collection of 17 gems of random knowledge, such as what women are made of and the philosopher's stone, written in Baring-Gould's own style. (Summary by Carolin)

K.G.Cross and 11 more 8 hours 35 minutes

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Family Life

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Eleanor H. Porter - Miss Billy Married

At the opening to this second sequel to Miss Billy (Miss Billy, Miss Billy's Decision, Miss Billy Married), we find Bertram and Billy finally at the altar. Will wedded bliss ensue and are the patter of little feet on...

Katine and 5 more 8 hours 34 minutes Miss Billy Series

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Literary Criticism

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Robert Lynd - Old and New Masters

Jane Austen, WB Yeats, Chesterton, Shaw… these are personal and intelligent short essays on a selection of great (and great-ish) writers: some well known, and some a bit more obscure to the average reader today....

chocmuse and 14 more 8 hours 31 minutes

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Romance

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Eleanor H. Porter - Dawn

Dawn (also known in England as «Keith’s Dark Tower»), was published in 1919, and is set during World War I. Keith Burton is going blind. It is hard for him and his family. Most of the book deals with their ways —...

alwpoe and 6 more 8 hours 20 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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A. A. Milne - Happy Days

Although best known for his Winnie the Pooh stories, A.A. Milne spent years as an editor at the English humor magazine Punch. These sprightly essays were chosen from the hundreds he wrote during that period. As usual,...

Phil Chenevert and 17 more 8 hours 15 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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