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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm - Household Tales

The complete Brothers Grimm stories, as translated directly from the German. Some of the stories will be familiar such as The Frog Prince, Rapunzel, and Cinderella. Other tales are less well known such as The Three...

Beth Thomas and 39 more 30 hours 18 minutes

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Jane Austen and her Country-House Comedy

Biography & Autobiography

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William Henry Helm - Jane Austen and her Country-House Comedy

Written for the centenary of Jane Austen's death, W. H. Helm reflects poetically on the timelessness of her work: the must of age has not settled on her books. The lavender may lie between their pages, but it is...

deongines and 3 more 4 hours 50 minutes

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Hooded Detective: 6 Action Packed Pulp Detective Stories

Detective Fiction

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Cliff Campbell - Hooded Detective: 6 Action Packed Pulp Detective Stories

Evil lurks in the hearts and minds of men and many nefarious schemes are hatched by these gangsters, mob bosses and super villains. But thankfully, equally brave, talented detectives (some of them hooded) are there to...

Dan Gurzynski and 5 more 3 hours 23 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - Elsie Venner

Bernard Langdon is close to earning his degree in medicine when his family finds itself in financial difficulties, forcing Langdon to interrupt his studies for a time in order to earn money with which to fund the rest...

BettyB and 2 more 15 hours 57 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Robert Nisbet Bain - Cossack Fairy Tales

This is a volume of fairy tales and folk tales from the Cossack people, compiled and translated by Robert Nisbet Bain. The tales are special as most children will not have heard them a hundred times before, and as...

Adam Wilkans and 10 more 6 hours 27 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Ida Ashworth Taylor - Lady Jane Grey and Her Times

Lady Jane Grey was an English noblewoman, great-granddaughter of Henry VII. As her cousin, Edward VI, lay on his death-bed, he nominated her as his successor to the English crown ahead of his half-sisters Mary and...

Beth Thomas and 5 more 8 hours 14 minutes

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Antiquity

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Jacob Abbott - History of Genghis Khan

This book provides the history of one of the most renowned emperors of all time. The Great Khan. This was a man born Temujin to a clan leader father who was later poisoned. The family was left unprotected and without...

deongines and 1 more 7 hours 10 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Arthur Machen - Terror: A Mystery

In rural England during the time of war, a rash of unsolved murders spawns conspiracy theories, paranoia, and fear as they search for a culprit, an explanation, and an end to the terror. — Summary by A. Gramour

OCTL7 and 5 more 3 hours 57 minutes

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Gothic Fiction

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Charlotte Dacre - Zofloya

Victoria de Loredani lives the life of a fairy tale princess in Venice. She has everything one might desire and more, until the sinister Count Ardolph enters her world. The Count carries off Victoria's mother in an...

deongines and 9 more 11 hours 46 minutes

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With Cortez in Mexico, or By Right of Conquest

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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G. A. Henty - With Cortez in Mexico, or By Right of Conquest

In perhaps the most audacious military enterprise in the history of human conquest, Cortez, with only a few hundred men, conquered a civilization of tens of thousands. This is the story of an Englishman who boards a...

Ryan Cherrick and 2 more 15 hours 22 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Harry Collingwood - Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn

Eric Blackburn's strange adventures begin when the ship on which he is engaged as fourth officer is struck by an enormous meteorite and sinks within minutes, and Blackburn is the sole survivor out of the 535 people on...

Tom Penn and 6 more 7 hours 36 minutes

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Lion of Saint Mark: A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century

Historical Fiction

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G. A. Henty - Lion of Saint Mark: A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century

«Of all the chapters of history, there are few more interesting or wonderful than that which tells the story of the rise and progress of Venice.» And thus begins another swashbuckling adventure by G. A. Henty. The...

Rachel and 5 more 11 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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