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Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 6, 1866 to 1875

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Hans Christian Andersen - Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 6, 1866 to 1875

A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. Summary by Kristingj.

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Well at the World's End, Book 2: The Road Unto Trouble

Fantasy Fiction

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William Morris - Well at the World's End, Book 2: The Road Unto Trouble

In The Well at the World's End, Ralph of Upmeads, youngest son of the King of Upmeads, leaves home (where nothing exciting ever happens) without permission and sets out looking for adventure. When he hears rumors of a...

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Ambrose Bierce - Cobwebs from an Empty Skull

Ambrose Bierce's collection of short parables, published under the pen name of Dod Grile, is similar to Aesop's Fables. This compilation is comprised of «Fables of Zambri, the Parsee,» «Brief Seasons of Intellectual...

Larry Wilson and 10 more 6 hours 3 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

501

Edward Bellamy - Dr. Heidenhoff's Process

Henry Burr's fiance, Madeline, is seduced by another man. The guilt and painful memories she has as a result cause him to refer her to Dr. Heidenhoff, who has developed a method to remove such memories from people's...

Mike Golczynski and 6 more 3 hours 38 minutes

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Tea-Cup Reading and Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves

Performing Arts

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Lillian Shearon - Tea-Cup Reading and Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves

Reading the Cup is essentially a domestic form of Fortune-telling to be practiced at home, and with success by anyone who will take the trouble to master the simple rules laid down in these pages: and it is in the...

Rosslyn Carlyle and 3 more 1 hour 14 minutes

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General Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - Man and Wife

This 1870 novel by Wilkie Collins centers around a peculiarity of Scottish law of that time, according to which any man and woman 'who were legally entitled to marry and who asserted that they were married before...

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Crafts & Hobbies

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Arthur Gray - Little Tea Book

After all, tea is the drink! Domestically and socially it is the beverage of the world. There may be those who will come forward with their figures to prove that other fruits of the soil—agriculturally and...

Rosslyn Carlyle and 6 more 1 hour 41 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Wilkie Collins - Rogue's Life

"[T]he story offers the faithful reflection of a very happy time in my past life. It was written at Paris, when I had Charles Dickens for a near neighbor and a daily companion, and when my leisure hours were...

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Short Stories

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Stories in Black and White

This is a collection of short mystery stories, written in very different styles by eight different authors. — Summary by Carolin

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Single author

506

Amy Lowell - Men, Women and Ghosts

This is a collection of long poems and short stories by Amy Lowell. — Summary by Carolin

Little Tee and 13 more 5 hours 45 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Giacomo Leopardi - Essays and Dialogues

«We would no more choose to feed the minds of our countrymen and women with the despairing utterances of the pessimist poet, than we would their bodies with hasheesh. Such melancholy as his clothed in such eloquent...

Mary J and 8 more 7 hours 54 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Wilkie Collins - Queen of Hearts

The elderly Brothers Owen, Morgan and Griffith live a quiet, retired life in the countryside, which is turned upside-down by Griffith's ward, the young Jessie Yelverton. Originally, her visit to them was to last only...

Peter John Keeble and 10 more 15 hours 47 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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