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Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 07

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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H. P. Nichols - Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 07

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No...

DJRickyV and 14 more 16 hours 45 minutes Thousand Nights and a Night

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Romance

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Susan Warner - Nobody

There are many romantic tales about a handsome and rich man falling in love with a beautiful lower class woman over the objections of his family. Remember Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy? however, it takes...

Arie and 10 more 16 hours 42 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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George Manville Fenn - Peril Finders

In California settlers are trying to make a living working as fruit-growers. Problems with blights and insects mean that the crops are failing. A prospector arrives and tells stories of ancient cities where there...

Elaine Webb and 9 more 16 hours 21 minutes

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Junior Classics Volume 8: Animal and Nature Stories

Animals & Nature

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William Patten - Junior Classics Volume 8: Animal and Nature Stories

The eighth book in the Junior Classics Series is an anthology of collected animal and nature tales designed to appeal to the young and young at heart. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)

Lynne T and 24 more 14 hours 49 minutes The Junior Classics

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William Patten - Junior Classics Volume 5: Stories That Never Grow Old

A selection of famous tales selected and re-worked for a junior audience. Stories are taken from Arabian Nights, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Shakespearean plays, Pilgrim's Progress, Ivanhoe, and The Startling...

Lynne T and 19 more 13 hours 56 minutes The Junior Classics

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Robert Pitcher Woodward - On A Donkey's Hurricane Deck

" A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours — starting without a dollar and earning my way." The journey could be...

Arnold and 9 more 13 hours 47 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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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Children's Fiction

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Olive Beaupre Miller - Treasure Chest of My Bookhouse

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

Pascal Ramseier and 28 more 13 hours 2 minutes My Bookhouse Series

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - Fairy Book

The sleeping beauty in the wood — Hop-O'-My-Thumb — Cinderella; or, the little glass slipper — Adventures of John Dietrich — Beauty and the Beast — Little One Eye, Little Two Eyes, and Little Three Eyes — Jack the...

Woolly Bee and 20 more 12 hours 53 minutes

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General Fiction

Wilkie Collins - Evil Genius

The Evil Genius, one of Wilkie Collins' last works, is subtitled «A Domestic Scene». It is the intriguing tale of family Linley, including the «evil genius», and their governess Sydney Westerfield. In colorful...

ToddHW and 14 more 12 hours 50 minutes

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Ned Wayburn - Art of Stage Dancing

Ned Wayburn, a popular and outstanding choreographer of the early 1900's, writes about the different styles and requirements of dancing and his way of teaching it.

Jill Janovetz and 15 more 12 hours 43 minutes

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General Fiction

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Stendhal - Red and the Black, Volume II

Stendhal — a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Balzac and Flaubert, Stendhal is quite often considered a writer that doesn't...

Malone and 8 more 12 hours 15 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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