Ulrike Denis

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Curiosities of Street Literature

This is a collection of broadsides from London. Broadsides are short, popular publications, a precursor to today's tabloid journalism. The collection contains sensationalist and sometimes comical stories about...

Ed Humpal and 27 more 21 hours 22 minutes

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World’s Story Volume V: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal

Historical Fiction

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Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume V: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal

This is the fifth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art , edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature,...

Sonia and 24 more 18 hours 54 minutes World's Story

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Short Stories

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Francis J. Reynolds - International Short Stories Volume 3: French Stories

The third book of a three volume anthology of international short stories, we now turn to French stories. Authors include Honoré de Balzac, Voltaire, Guy de Maupassant, Victor Hugo and more. Compiled and translated by...

Bruce Pirie and 8 more 13 hours 28 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Leonora Blanche Lang - Strange Story Book

A collection of stories compiled by the widow of the renowned children's short-story collector, Andrew Lang. She describes this as the final installment of his series of fairy stories and includes some of those...

Kalyn Heminger and 21 more 9 hours 54 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Arthur Bingham Walkley - Pastiche and Prejudice

Arthur Bingham Walkley was an exceedingly popular critic, working as a drama critic at The Times alone for no less than 26 years, and writing for several other newspapers and privately besides that. This book of...

Ulrike Denis and 21 more 8 hours 9 minutes

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Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches

Single Author Collections

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Maurice Baring - Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches

In this urbane collection of short stories by Maurice Baring, characters ranging from legendary figures to schoolboys find themselves in step or out of sorts, where they are meant to be or warned not to go, out of...

Kate Follis and 9 more 6 hours 46 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Clifton Johnson - Fir-Tree Fairy Book

In this volume, Clifton Johnson has compiled his favourite fairy tales. We hear a lot of animals, because fairy tales with animals in them are Mr. Johnson's favourite stories, but we also hear of fairies, of wizards,...

Greg Giordano and 20 more 6 hours 44 minutes

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Anthologies

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Henry Norman - Broken Shaft: Tales in Mid-Ocean

This special anthology, published in 1885, is formed of seven stories, together with an introductory chapter setting up a framing narrative by Henry Norman, which is returned to at the end of each subsequent tale....

tjp1421 and 4 more 5 hours 51 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Edmund Leamy - Golden Spears, and other Fairy Tales

This is a little volume of original fairy tales by Irish lawyer, author and politician Edmund Leamy. — Summary by Carolin

Cecilia Lui and 5 more 3 hours 25 minutes

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Nature

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Birds and Nature, Vol. XII, No 3, October 1902

«Birds and Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes and factual descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with...

Sonia and 9 more 2 hours 10 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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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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