Sibella Denton

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Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America Vol. II

Democracy in America was published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840. It is a classic work on the United States in the 1830s and its strengths and weaknesses as seen from a European point of...

Sibella Denton and 6 more 13 hours 11 minutes

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Lucie Duff-Gordon - Letters from Egypt

As a girl, Lady Duff-Gordon was noted both for her beauty and intelligence. As an author, she is most famous for this collection of letters from Egypt. Lady Duff-Gordon had tuberculosis, and went to Egypt for her...

Sibella Denton 13 hours 2 minutes

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Short Stories

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Bret Harte - Selected Stories of Bret Harte

Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 – May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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History

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Flavius Josephus - Antiquities of the Jews, Volume 2

Antiquities of the Jews was a work published by the important Jewish historian Flavius Josephus about the year 93 or 94. Antiquities of the Jews is a history of the Jewish people, written in Greek for Josephus'...

Nicole Kay and 12 more 12 hours 43 minutes The Antiquities of the Jews

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General Fiction

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Voltairine de Cleyre - Selected Essays

Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, «the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.» Today she is not widely known as a consequence of her short life. De Cleyre was...

Rhonda Federman and 8 more 12 hours 27 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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Isabella L. Bird - Englishwoman in America

Isabella Bird travels abroad in Canada and the United States in the 1850s. As an Englishwoman and a lone female, she travels as far as Chicago, Prince Edward Island, and Cincinatti. Her observations on the trials and...

Sibella Denton 12 hours 12 minutes

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Jesuits in North America in the 17th Century

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Francis Parkman, Jr. - Jesuits in North America in the 17th Century

Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread the books around the world. The American writer and literary critic Edmund...

David Lawrence and 7 more 12 hours 1 minute Parkman - France and England in North America

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Political Science

Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan (Books I and II)

Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written in 1651 by Thomas Hobbes. It is titled after the biblical Leviathan. The book...

Carl Manchester and 15 more 11 hours 33 minutes

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Children's Fiction

George Manville Fenn - Bunyip Land

Joe Carstairs is a boy on a farm in Australia. His father is a keen naturalist who, some years before had set off for New Guinea in search of specimens, and never been heard of again. Joe is old enough to mount a...

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Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

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E. M. Berens - Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

This is a comprehensive collection of all the major and minor gods of Rome and Greece, with descriptions of festivals and retellings of major mythological stories. (Summary by Sibella)

Sibella Denton and 10 more 11 hours 24 minutes

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Religion

Louis Ginzberg - Legends of the Jews, Volume 2

Rabbi Louis Ginzberg was one of the outstanding Talmudists of the twentieth century. He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kovno, Lithuania; he died on November 11, 1953, in New York City. Ginzberg taught at the...

Scott Sherris and 10 more 11 hours 16 minutes Legends of the Jews vol 1-4

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Detective Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Return of Sherlock Holmes

Having left Sherlock Holmes apparently deceased at the conclusion of The Final Problem (in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes), we now find that he is alive after all! In this collection, first published in 1905, the...

Sibella Denton and 9 more 11 hours 7 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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