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Action & Adventure Fiction

443

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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Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Part 1: The English at the North Pole

Action & Adventure Fiction

465

Jules Verne - Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Part 1: The English at the North Pole

The novel, set in 1861, describes adventures of British expedition led by Captain John Hatteras to the North Pole. Hatteras is convinced that the sea around the pole is not frozen and his obsession is to reach the...

Kristine Bekere and 4 more 7 hours 57 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

495

Francis Marion Crawford - Wandering Ghosts

This is a collection of seven ghost stories by Francis Marion Crawford. The volume includes all of the essential ingredients for good ghost and horror stories, such as mysterious deaths, haunted houses, and even...

Dan Gurzynski and 4 more 7 hours 39 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

514

Mabel E. Wotton - Word Portraits of Famous Writers

Mabel Elizabeth Wotton, an author herself, moved in the literary circles of the late nineteenth century establishing many close friendships, She presents for us here, not literary criticism nor biographical sketches,...

Larry Wilson and 22 more 7 hours 26 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

447

James Elroy Flecker - Collected Prose

Best remembered for his poetry, James Elroy Flecker was also a playwright, novelist and prose writer. This collection of his idiosyncratic prose writings includes The Last Generation (a short science fiction story),...

Phil Benson and 5 more 7 hours 19 minutes

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Nature

437

Tickner Edwardes - Bee-Master of Warrilow

«Is it true that a bee can only sting once?» I asked him, as he bent again over the crocus beds. He laughed. «What would be the good of a sword to a soldier,» he said, «if only one blow could be struck with...

Steve C 6 hours 53 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Camille Flammarion - Omega: The Last Days of the World

Omega: The Last Days of the World is a science fiction novel published in 1894 by Camille Flammarion. On 25th century Earth, a comet made mostly of Carbonic-Oxide (CO) could possibly collide with the Earth. It is...

A. J. Carroll and 4 more 6 hours 46 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

473

Arts and Crafts Essays

A series of essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society with a preface by William Morris who writes «It is this conscious cultivation of art and the attempt to interest the public in it which the Arts...

realisticspeakers and 11 more 6 hours 41 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Frank R. Stockton - Floating Prince and Other Fairy Tales

This is a collection of original and interesting fairy tales. We have here princes and princesses, pirates, wizards, and all the other ingredients for entertaining stories for kids. — Summary by Carolin

Lynda Marie Neilson and 6 more 6 hours 24 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

519

Jack London - Revolution, and other Essays

A collection of 13 essays written between 1900 and 1908, published in 1910. The lead essay, «Revolution», outlines how and why London renounced capitalism as a failed social system and declared himself an active...

Michele Fry and 9 more 6 hours 7 minutes

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Christianity - Commentary

402

Thomas De Witt Talmage - Abominations of Modern Society

The title gives an accurate description of the book! It is full of old and forgotten words and phrases, Amusing at times, but addressing the problems mentioned in the chapter titles in detail. The troubles of his...

Christopher Smith and 9 more 6 hours 3 minutes

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Short Stories

536

Richard Middleton - Ghost Ship & Other Stories

Richard Middleton is one of the many authors who, despite great merit, have been almost entirely forgotten today. This English author was an eminent literary figure in his day, admired by, among others, Edgar Jepson,...

Nemo and 10 more 5 hours 39 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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