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World’s Famous Orations, Vol. IV: Great Britain - II

Political Science

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William Jennings Bryan - World’s Famous Orations, Vol. IV: Great Britain - II

In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period,...

DrPGould and 7 more 7 hours 10 minutes World's Famous Orations

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Fantastic Fiction

516

Wladislaw Lach-Szyrma - Aleriel; or, A Voyage to Other Worlds

When an Oxford undergraduate meets by chance, a mysterious stranger, during a walking tour of France, he does not know that the unusual charismatic being he has made the acquaintance of, is in fact a disguised alien...

TRUEBRIT 5 hours 16 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

496

Charles Reade - It Is Never Too Late to Mend

A ruthless squire becomes obsessed with a younger woman and conspires against her lover, George Fielding, so that the squire can win her. With the squire's financial pressure turned up on his family, George goes to...

Gillian Hendrie and 14 more 26 hours 47 minutes

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Memoirs

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Through the Magic Door

I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of...

Gail Nelson and 8 more 4 hours 49 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Short Ghost and Horror Collection 028

A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder.

TRUEBRIT and 11 more 9 hours 12 minutes Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections

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Epistolary Fiction

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Samuel Richardson - Pamela, Volume 2

Pamela, tells the story of a 15-year old maidservant named Pamela Andrews, whose country landowner master, Mr. B, makes unwanted advances towards her after the death of his mother. He abducts her, locks her up in one...

Michele Eaton and 13 more 23 hours

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Family Life

460

George Gissing - Demos: A Story of English Socialism

«Richard Mutimer is delighted to inherit a large fortune. As a socialist, he means to use it well: he will open a factory in which workers would be treated well, he will advance his party's causes through his own...

KHand and 7 more 20 hours 55 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Thomas Paine - American Crisis aka "The Crisis"

A 13 pamphlet series by 18th century Enlightenment philosopher/author Thomas Paine, published between 1776 to 1783 during and immediately following the American Revolution, gathered into one volume in 1882 by...

Michele Fry and 7 more 8 hours 19 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Robert G. Ingersoll - Works Of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 4

Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, one of the greatest orators of the mid-19th century, was a highly sought after lecturer/toastmaster who sold out every hall he engaged throughout America. He was an ardent abolitionist,...

Michele Fry and 8 more 11 hours 4 minutes

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Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport

War & Military Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport

Arthur Conan Doyle was deeply affected by the many wars fought during his lifetime. As many other writers, he used the material for short stories, a collection of which is presented here. — Summary by Carolin

Peter John Keeble and 7 more 7 hours 52 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Virgil - Aeneid, prose translation

The Aeneid is the most famous Latin epic poem, written by Virgil in the 1st century BC. The story revolves around the legendary hero Aeneas, a Trojan prince who left behind the ruins of his city and led his fellow...

Bob Neufeld and 9 more 10 hours 42 minutes

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Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography

Satire

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Laurence Oliphant - Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography

Laurence Oliphant, author, international traveller, diplomatist and mystic, who spent a decade in later life under the influence of the spiritualist prophet Thomas Lake Harris, writes here under the amusing guise...

TRUEBRIT and 4 more 7 hours 54 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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