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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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William Clark Russell - Frozen Pirate (version 2)

Drawing on his own experience as a merchant seaman, Russell gives us the fictionalized narrative of one Paul Rodney who found an icebound vessel in the South Atlantic, while captaining a pirate ship. Russell has been...

Marilyn Rakes and 12 more 11 hours 19 minutes

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Daredevil of the Army - Experiences as a ''Buzzer'' and Despatch Rider

War & Military

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Austin Patrick Corcoran - Daredevil of the Army - Experiences as a ''Buzzer'' and Despatch Rider

At just twenty-six years of age, the author – A P Corcoran had already led an adventurous life, having twice sailed around the world, experiencing many cultures and civilisations, journeyed and hunted through the...

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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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Short Stories

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Sapper - Lieutenant and Others

This is a volume of short stories by Herman Cyril McNeile, better known by his pseudonym «Sapper», who is well-known until today for his haunting short stories and novels, set at the front in World War I, and based on...

Stefan Von Blon and 6 more 4 hours 7 minutes

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Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics

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Archibald Williams - Romance of Modern Mechanism

In 1910, when this book was published, the advancement of modern mechanism was still moving at a rapid pace. It must have seemed like very day, new inventions were made to make life easier. Most of these are still...

Kristine Bekere and 12 more 11 hours 34 minutes

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With The Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt

War & Military

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Tickner Edwardes - With The Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt

Throughout the First World War, members of the Royal Army Medical Corps provided constant support for British and Allied military troops whether they were fighting on the frontline or engaged in other operations...

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War & Military

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Frank Mundell - Stories of the Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross is the highest military award that can be made to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces for acts of gallantry and valour “in the face of the enemy”. The medal was instituted by...

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Modern (19th C)

Frank Mundell - Stories of the Royal Humane Society

Established in 1774, the ‘Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned’ published information on how to save people from drowning, promoted the concept of using methods of artificial resuscitation to attempt...

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Humorous Fiction

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Barry Pain - Problem Club

The Problem Club is an infamous London Club which meets once a month to discuss a given problem. The problems have nothing to do with mathematics, but are social problems, in the broadest possible sense of the word....

Foon and 9 more 3 hours 20 minutes

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Single Author Collections

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Joyce Emmerson Muddock - Stories Weird and Wonderful

A collection of tales written by J.E. Muddock. All these stories are dark in atmosphere and subject matter.

Colleen McMahon and 12 more 11 hours 33 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Bill Nye - Bill Nye's Cordwood

From Galileo to Grover Cleveland, from wasps to cattle, from dinosaurs to the railroad, Bill Nye's wide ranging wit pokes gentle fun at everything and everybody. This book is another wonderful collection of his...

John and 9 more 3 hours 44 minutes

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Travel & Geography

Tickner Edwardes - Lift-Luck on Southern Roads

Here for you is the tale of my latest solitary ramble. The journey covers, as you shall see, some two hundred odd miles, through five southern counties of England, and was conceived on an unusual plan. To keep clear...

Steve C 9 hours 38 minutes

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New

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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