R. S. Steinberg

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Last of the Mohicans - A Narrative of 1757 (version 2)

Historical Fiction

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James Fenimore Cooper - Last of the Mohicans - A Narrative of 1757 (version 2)

This story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of from 500 to 1,500 unarmed Anglo-American troops, who had...

Robin Cotter and 18 more 15 hours 25 minutes

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Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 01

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Anonymous - Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 01

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No...

Peter Yearsley and 10 more 13 hours 39 minutes Thousand Nights and a Night

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Travel & Geography

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Francis Parkman, Jr. - Oregon Trail

The book is a breezy, first-person account of a 2 month summer tour of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas when Parkman was 23. (Summary by Wikipedia)

R. S. Steinberg 12 hours 58 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Giles Lytton Strachey - Queen Victoria

Lytton Strachey’s first great success, and his most famous achievement, was «Eminent Victorians» (1918), a collection of four short biographies of Victorian heroes. With a dry wit, he exposed the human failings of his...

R. S. Steinberg 10 hours 20 minutes

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Technology & Engineering

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Geoffrey H. Malins - How I Filmed the War

An account of World War I and the experience of filming it by an early cinematographer (and, after the war, successful director) who was there. (Summary by R. S. Steinberg)

R. S. Steinberg 8 hours 23 minutes

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Sports & Recreation

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Henry Festing Jones - Diversions in Sicily

Samuel Butler's biographer dedicates his urbane account of the culture and entertainments of rural Sicily to the unborn son of his guide to them. (Summary by R. S. Steinberg)

R. S. Steinberg 6 hours 8 minutes

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War & Military

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Walt Whitman - Wound Dresser

The Wound Dresser is a series of letters written from the hospitals in Washington by Walt Whitman during the War of the Rebellion to The New York Times, the Brooklyn Eagle and his mother, edited by Richard Maurice...

R. S. Steinberg 5 hours 30 minutes

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Children's Fiction

Charles Kingsley - Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children

The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonauts, and Theseus. The author had a great fondness for Greek fairy tales and...

Laura Caldwell and 6 more 5 hours 24 minutes

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Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar

War & Military

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George Bethune English - Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar

As a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps during the War of 1812 assigned to Marine Corps headquarters, English sailed to the Mediterranean, and was among the first citizens of the United States known...

R. S. Steinberg 4 hours 4 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Notker the Stammerer - Life of Charlemagne

Notker's work consists of anecdotes relating chiefly to the Emperor Charlemagne and his family. It was written for Charles the Fat, great-grandson of Charlemagne, who visited Saint Gall in 883. Traditionally, it has...

R. S. Steinberg and 1 more 2 hours 36 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Bishop of Sherbourne Asser - Life of Alfred the Great

A life of King Alfred of England originally composed in Latin, possibly sometime around 888 A.D. by the Monk and Bishop Asser, although some scholars contend that the work was actually composed much later by an...

R. S. Steinberg 2 hours 17 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Arthur Machen - Angels of Mons

The Angels of Mons is a popular legend about a group of angels who supposedly protected members of the British army in the Battle of Mons at the outset of World War I. The story is fictitious, developed through a...

R. S. Steinberg 1 hour 6 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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