Sarah Jennings

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Animals

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Mrs. Isabella Beeton - Book of Household Management

«Mrs. Beeton's» is a guide to all aspects of running a household in Victorian Britain. Published in 1861, it was an immediate bestseller, running to millions of copies within just a few years. In the cookery...

Sarah Jennings and 32 more 58 hours 15 minutes

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Bibles

539

World English Bible - Bible (WEB) Old Testament - complete

The World English Bible is a modern English translation of the Bible, released directly into the public domain. (Summary by Leon Mire)

David Leeson and 37 more 58 hours 2 minutes Bible (World English Bible)

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*Non-fiction

511

James Frazer - Golden Bough

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging comparative study of mythology and religion, written by Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). It offered a modernist approach,...

hefyd and 10 more 42 hours 44 minutes

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Historical Fiction

770

Henry Fielding - History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

Tom Jones is considered one of the first prose works describable as a novel. The novel is divided into 18 smaller books. Tom Jones is a foundling discovered on the property of a very kind, wealthy landowner, Squire...

hosmer_angel and 19 more 36 hours 5 minutes

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War & Military

466

Henry Stanley Banks - War Surgery - From Firing Line to Base

One of the first volumes dedicated to systematized medical treatment of soldiers in modern warfare, including a chapter on specific care for airmen, by British doctors who served on the front lines of WWI. Graphic...

Bellona Times and 13 more 24 hours 27 minutes

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Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

Self-Help

570

Emily Post - Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

From advice on planning the perfect wedding to eating an artichoke correctly, Emily Post offers instruction on how to live a well-mannered life circa 1922. With a sometimes gentle, sometimes sharp wit, she maintains...

Michael Ezzell and 18 more 21 hours 41 minutes

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606

Oscar Wilde - Reviews

Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would have preferred to forget. As a matter of fact, I believe this volume will prove...

braindouche and 27 more 19 hours 15 minutes

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Children's Fiction

639

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Little Women is the classic story of The March family, which consists of Mr. and Mrs. March and their four girls--Practical, yet fashion conscious Meg, who longs for the nice things they used to have. Rambunctious,...

Elizabeth and 15 more 18 hours 59 minutes

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Nature

510

William T. Hornaday - Our Vanishing Wild Life

We are weary of witnessing the greed, selfishness and cruelty of «civilized» man toward the wild creatures of the earth. We are sick of tales of slaughter and pictures of carnage. It is time for a sweeping...

Laura Caldwell and 17 more 18 hours 42 minutes

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Children's Fiction

505

Nora Archibald Smith - Fairy Ring

The Fairy Ring , originally published in 1910, is a collection of 63 fairy tales from around the globe. It includes such well-known favorites as «History of Jack the Giant-Killer», «The Frog...

Laurie Anne Walden and 28 more 17 hours 36 minutes

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Children's Fiction

646

Charles Dickens - Child's History of England

A Child's History of England first appeared in serial form, running from January 25, 1851 to December 10, 1853 and was first published in three volume book form in 1852, 1853, and 1854. Dickens dedicated the book to...

Lizzie Driver and 13 more 16 hours 20 minutes

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Reference

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Grenville Kleiser - Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embellishment of Speech and Literature, and The Improvement of the Vocabulary of...

Betsie Bush and 45 more 16 hours

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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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