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Elbert Hubbard - Mintage

Elbert Hubbard is best known as the author of the «Little Journeys To The Homes of Famous People». These 11 short stores show the side of him that celebrated caring, friendship love among humans. The first describes...

Phil Chenevert and 5 more 1 hour 44 minutes

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Samuel H. M. Byers - With Fire and Sword (Byers)

Samuel H. M. Byers was an American poet, diplomat, and soldier in the Civil War. «In war some persons seek adventures; others have them in spite of themselves. It happened that the writer of this book belonged to a...

Chris Chapman and 9 more 4 hours 41 minutes

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Short Stories

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A. A. Milne - Not That It Matters

More of the witty, wry, and deliciously wicked essays and articles written by Milne. Most people know him as the creator of Winnie The Pooh, but he worked for many years as editor of Punch Magazine and these are some...

Bill Mosley and 13 more 5 hours 39 minutes

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Family & Relationships

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Alice Bacon - Japanese Girls and Women

A clear and delightful peek into the world of Japanese girls and women of the late 1800s: their childhood, education, marriage and intimate family life. And it is done by someone who admires the immense resources,...

Dan Froese and 8 more 7 hours 46 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Hiram Bingham - Explorer in the Air Service

Explorer Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, as recounted in his book Inca Lands, now released on Librivox at librivox.org/inca-lands-by-hiram-bingham/. In 1917, he became an aviator and organized the...

asterix and 2 more 7 hours 41 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Eugene Field - Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac

Do you love books? No, I mean REALLY love books? These series of sketches on the delights, adventures, and misadventures connected with bibliomania (bibliomania is characterized by the collecting of books which have...

David Wales and 7 more 4 hours 34 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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H. P. Nichols - Nibelungenlied

The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High German. The story tells of dragon-slayer Siegfried at the court of the Burgundians, how he was murdered, and of his wife...

April Gonzales and 11 more 10 hours 28 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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A. A. Milne - Sunny Side

The Sunny Side is a collection of short stories and essays by A. A. Milne. Though Milne is best known for his classic children's books, especially Winnie The Pooh, he also wrote extensively for adults, most notably in...

KalenXI and 17 more 6 hours 41 minutes

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Naval Officer, or Scenes in the Life and Adventures of Frank Mildmay

War & Military Fiction

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Frederick Marryat - Naval Officer, or Scenes in the Life and Adventures of Frank Mildmay

Marryat was a midshipman under Captain Cochrane and this, his first naval adventure, is considered to be a highly autobiographical telling of his adventures with one of Britain's most famous and daring naval captains....

Lynne T and 7 more 15 hours 39 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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E. Phillips Oppenheim - Amiable Charlatan

An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating his food, and hands him a packet underneath the table! So begins Paul...

ToddHW and 4 more 6 hours 20 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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George Bernard Shaw - Quintessence of Ibsenism (Version 2)

InThis is an essay providing an extended analysis of the works of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen and of Ibsen's critical reception in England. Shaw uses this «exposition of Ibsenism» to illustrate the...

Gesine and 9 more 4 hours 17 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Saki - Toys of Peace

This is the fifth collection of short stories by Saki (H.H. Munro), and was published posthumously in 1923. Even so, many of the stories are quite up to the standard of those collected earlier. (Summary by Graham...

Graham Redman and 15 more 6 hours 59 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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