Tony Oliva

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Aldous Huxley - Jonah

Though Aldous Huxley gained popularity from his novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. Jonah, his second compilation of poetry, is a collection of twelve poems (four of which are written in...

Larry Wilson and 3 more 17 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Ray Cummings - Fire People

In effect Professor Newland declared that the curious astronomical phenomena of the previous November--the new «stars» observed, the two meteors that had fallen with their red and green light-fire--were all evidence...

Tony Oliva 8 hours 8 minutes

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British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Wirt Sikes - British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions

The British Isles, in particular Wales, are renowned for legend and folklore. The author, an American journalist working in Europe, was appointed Consul to Wales and thus began his fascination with Welsh folklore....

Lynne T and 11 more 11 hours 28 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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George Gibbs - Forbidden Way

...he went over to a cracked mirror in the corner and examined his face, grinning at his image and touching the red marks with his fingers. «That was a love-tap for fair,» he said. «I reckon I deserved it. But...

Tony Oliva 10 hours 54 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

480

George Gibbs - Splendid Outcast

_What else?_—What else had happened? Something to do with the remarkable likeness between himself and Harry? The likeness,—so strong that only their own mother had been able to tell them apart. Memory came to...

Tony Oliva 11 hours 56 minutes

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Family Life

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Robert Kemp Philp - Reason Why

This collection of useful information on «Common Things» is put in the interesting form of «Why and Because,» and comprehends a familiar explanation of many subjects which occupy a large space in the philosophy of...

Anusha Iyer and 17 more 14 hours 59 minutes

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General Fiction

530

W. Somerset Maugham - Mrs. Craddock

“I thought it was you I saw coming up the hill,” she said, stretching out her hand. He stopped and shook it; the touch of his big, firm fingers made her tremble. His hand was massive and hard as if it were hewn...

Tony Oliva 11 hours 8 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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Thomas Gaskell Allen - Across Asia on a Bicycle

In 1890, two Americans newly graduated from college set out to travel around the world on a then-new invention, the modern bicycle. In 1893 they returned, have covered over 15,000 miles, at that time the «longest...

pyfeman43 and 8 more 5 hours 40 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Anna Katharine Green - Chief Legatee

«I was married to-day in Grace Church. At the altar my bride--you probably know her name, Miss Georgian Hazen--wore a natural look, and was in all respects, so far as any one could see, a happy woman, satisfied with...

Tony Oliva 7 hours 1 minute

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Detective Fiction

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Arthur J. Rees - Mystery of the Downs

«The storm had descended swiftly, sweeping in suddenly from the sea, driving across the downs to the hills at high speed, blotting out the faint rays of a crescent moon and hiding the country-side beneath a pall of...

Tony Oliva 8 hours 52 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Anatole France - Gods are Athirst

The Gods Are Athirst (French: Les dieux ont soif, also translated as The Gods Are Thirsty or The Gods Will Have Blood) is a 1912 novel by Anatole France. The story follows the young Parisian painter Évariste...

Nicholas Clifford and 12 more 8 hours 32 minutes

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Robert Browning - Ring and the Book

«Better translate--»A Roman murder-case: «Position of the entire criminal cause »Of Guido Franceschini, nobleman, «With certain Four the cutthroats in his pay, »Tried, all five, and found guilty and put to...

Tony Oliva 26 hours 7 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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