Culture & Heritage
The Junior Classics
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Variousandwilliam Patten and Various And William Patten
Compilation of tales designed and arranged for young people. This volume covers tales from the North, the Rhine, Greece and Rome, tales fro…
Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria
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Elphinstone Dayrell
A collection of folk stories and fairy tales from Southern Nigeria gathered by Elphinstone Dayrell, deputy commissioner of the region when t…
The Crown Of Life
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George Gissing
So what is the crown of life? Follow the journey of Piers and Irene as they attempt to discover. It is both a coming of age novel and love s…
Myths and Legends Around the World
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Various
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…
Vie de Rancé
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François-René de Chateaubriand
Hagiographie. Vie de Rancé, 1626-1700. La Trappe. Noblesse de robe. Abbé mondain. Partisan du cardinal de Retz, ennemi de Ma…
Magna Carta
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Amice Macdonell
A one-act play which describes the setting and writing of the Magna Carta, including the famous line "now is justice bought and sold&qu…
The Citizen's Almanac
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United States Department Of Homeland Security, United States Of America and U. S. Citizenship And Immigration Services
New citizens of the United States were given this pamphlet when they became citizens. The Citizen's Almanac contains information on the hist…
The Sport of the Gods
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Sport of the Gods is a novel by Paul Laurence Dunbar, first published in 1902, centered around urban black life. Forced to leave the Sou…
Cádiz, Episodios Nacionales
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Benito Pérez Galdós
Acorralada por el infame francés, toda España se ha refugiado en Cádiz. Todos huyen ante el empuje del invasor: nobles,…
The Stone Axe Of Burkamukk
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Mary Grant Bruce
Mary Grant Bruce was an Australian children's writer who spent one year collecting Aboriginal stories in Gippsland - a part of Victoria whic…
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Sir Walter Scott
An historical novel set in Scotland in 1736, involving a riot and surrounding drama. - Summary by Deon Gines
Myths and Legends Around the World
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Various
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…
Elissa
Read by Keith Salis
H. Rider Haggard
Anthropologists have studied the ruins of a great city and temple in Zimbabwe, and it has left them in wonder. The construction and markings…
Anno 2070
Read by Marcel Coenders
Pieter Harting
Een schrijver die vrij hardhandig met de nukken en grillen van de toekomst kennis maakte, was de negentiende-eeuwse professor Pieter Harting…
Myths and Legends Around the World
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Various
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…
Jess
Read by Jim Locke
H. Rider Haggard
The setting for this novel is the Boer War in South Africa in 1880. This novel is interesting and exciting on several levels: there are com…
The Gray Mills of Farley
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Sarah Orne Jewett
As contemporary today as it was over a century ago, this relatively unsentimental tale of labor relations still packs a punch. (Summary by B…
A Family of Noblemen
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Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Meet the Golovliovs, the ultimate dysfunctional family. In the difficult transition years before and after the liberation of Russia’s serfs,…
L' Homme de fer
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Paul Féval, Père
TRILOGIE, « La Fée des Grèves », « A la plus belle », « L’Homme de fer ».Suite de « …
Forest Days
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George Payne Rainsford James
Picture a tranquil English village, with an inn on the green. A lone patron enjoys his wine and teasing the landlord's pretty daughter, when…