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Self-Help

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J. Francis Logan - Spy Proof America!

A very impassioned piece from the first World War, introducing a volunteer civilian anti-spy organization to root out enemy spies from the USA. It appears that this organization never reached the level the author...

Chessie Joy and 4 more 2 hours 41 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 028

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, slavery, science, education, humor,...

Sue Anderson and 12 more 4 hours 26 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

523

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Hound of the Baskervilles (version 3)

The desolate, treacherous Devon moors. A bloodcurdling legend of a ghastly hound from hell, haunting the Baskerville family for generations. Such is the setting for the most horrific Sherlock Holmes story ever...

Lady Maria and 7 more 5 hours 54 minutes

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Children's Fiction

517

Olive Beaupre Miller - Through Fairy Halls of My Bookhouse

Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the third volume of the «My Bookhouse» series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited...

Oxenhandler and 28 more 13 hours 37 minutes My Bookhouse Series

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Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 3

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Edgar Allan Poe - Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 3

This, the third of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains 6 of his short stories as well as Poe's only complete novel, The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym . In it, Arthur Gordon Pym stows away on a whaling vessel and...

Ernst Pattynama and 14 more 11 hours 30 minutes

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General Fiction

532

John Kendrick Bangs - Mrs. Raffles

Mrs. Raffles, widow of the now deceased A. J. Raffles (who was the gentleman thief pursued at one time by Sherlock Holmes), continues the family legacy of crime—but this time in America. These stories are narrated by...

ToddHW and 3 more 2 hours 20 minutes

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Travel Fiction

484

Washington Irving - Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

Apart from «Rip Van Winkle» and «The Legend of Sleepy Hollow» — the pieces which made both Irving and The Sketch Book famous — other tales include «Roscoe», «The Broken Heart», «The Art of Book-making», «A Royal...

Easton and 15 more 15 hours 21 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

563

Alexandre Dumas - Vicomte De Bragelonne

After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues! The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (French: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou...

Kristen Zaza and 16 more 20 hours 29 minutes d'Artagnan Romances (in English translation)

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Version 2)

Fantastic Fiction

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Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Version 2)

Professor Pierre Aronnax is an academic whose thirst for knowledge carries him out of his ivory tower and on the trail of a mysterious sea beast. His curiosity at last is satiated when he finds himself in the belly...

Chris Donnelly and 17 more 16 hours 43 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

432

May Gillington Byron - Day With Great Poets

Who was John Milton? The author of Paradise Lost you say? Well, certainly, but he was also a man, going about his daily life like any of us in 17th century England, (except that he was a genius of course). Take time...

CaprishaPage and 5 more 7 hours 59 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

449

John Kendrick Bangs - R. Holmes and Co.

Raffles Holmes is introduced in these stories as the son of the great Sherlock Holmes. He is also revealed to be the grandson of A.J. Raffles, a gentleman thief pursued by Sherlock Holmes many years earlier. This...

ToddHW and 1 more 3 hours 12 minutes

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*Non-fiction

458

William Ruschenberger - Elements of Ornithology

The Elements of Ornithology is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This succinct little textbook from 1845 presents an introduction to ornithology....

April Gonzales and 6 more 5 hours 6 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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