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Sir Isaac Newton - Opticks

The famous physicist Sir Isaac Newton lectured on optics from 1670 — 1672. He worked on refraction of light into colored beams using prisms and discovered chromatic aberration. He also postulated the corpuscular form...

Availle and 10 more 12 hours 13 minutes

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Travel & Geography

National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 02 No. 1-2

National Geographic Magazine Volume 2 Number 1 April 1890. : On the Telegraphic Determinations of Longitude by the Bureau of Navigation Report: Geography of the Land Report: Geography of the Air...

Availle and 6 more 7 hours 26 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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Science Fiction

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Victor Appleton - Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers

Tom Swift flies his airship to the mountain tops of Colorado to seek for the secret of the Diamond Makers: criminal scientists who have figured out the formula of manufacturing a limitless fortune in diamonds. But...

Greg Giordano and 7 more 4 hours 31 minutes Tom Swift Adventure Series

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Humorous Ghost Stories

Includes: An introduction by Dorothy Scarborough — The Canterville ghost / by Oscar Wilde — The ghost-extinguisher / by Gelett Burgess — «Dey ain't no ghosts» / by Ellis Parker Butler — The transferred ghost / by...

Madam Fickle and 15 more 10 hours 50 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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William Harrison Ainsworth - Windsor Castle, Book 3

Book 3 — The History of the Castle. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as his wife. During Henry's pursuit of Boleyn, the novel...

Bellona Times and 1 more 1 hour 36 minutes Windsor Castle

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Children's Fiction

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Victor Appleton - Tom Swift and His Wireless Message

Tom Swift & friends decide to trial an experimental airship near the New Jersey coast, and are unexpectedly swept out to sea by hurricane winds. Unable to steer or navigate without tearing the airship apart, the...

Richard Kilmer and 8 more 4 hours 18 minutes Tom Swift Adventure Series

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History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1E

Middle Ages/Middle History

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David Hume - History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1E

David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and renown; his historical writing earned his bread and butter. His «The History of...

Theodulf and 14 more 23 hours 58 minutes Hume - History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Baroness Emma Orczy - Lord Tony's Wife

Another adventure of the Scarlet pimpernel! As the title suggests, it follows the story of Lord Tony and his wife, Yvonne. It is full of suspense adventure and romance. Lord Tony and Yvonne elope after some disturbing...

Ric F and 5 more 9 hours 33 minutes

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War & Military

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Gaius Julius Caesar - Commentaries on the Gallic War

Commentarii de Bello Gallico (English: Commentaries on the Gallic War) is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar describes the battles and intrigues...

James Christopher and 6 more 7 hours 16 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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John Jeffery Farnol - Broad Highway

Our hero, Peter Vibart, an Oxford graduate with no means of support but for 10 guineas he has inherited, sets out on a walking tour of the Kent countryside. Along the way, he meets many quaint and adoring characters...

John Lieder and 6 more 15 hours 51 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

Jane Austen - Jane Austen's Juvenilia

Before becoming the author of such classics as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Jane Austen experimented with various writing styles as a teenager in the early 1790s. This is a collection of her...

Claudia Wilson and 6 more 5 hours 47 minutes

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Charles William Chadwick Oman - Byzantine Empire

Fifty years ago the word “Byzantine” was used as a synonym for all that was corrupt and decadent, and the tale of the East-Roman Empire was dismissed by modern historians as depressing and monotonous. The great Gibbon...

Ric F and 6 more 9 hours 18 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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