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Short Science Fiction Collection 010

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Various


Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…

Pride and Prejudice: A Play

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Jane Austen


Pride and Prejudice, a comedy of manners and marriage, is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels. In this dramatic adaption by Mary Keith M…

Die Familie Pfäffling

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Agnes Sapper


Humorvolle Geschichte einer Musikerfamilie mit sieben Kindern zu Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts (Summary by Wolfgang)

Short Science Fiction Collection 048

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Various


Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…

Mary Barton

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester du…

The Importance of Being Earnest (version 2)

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Oscar Wilde


Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbe…

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. VI

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Edward Gibbon


The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

How I Found Livingstone

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Henry Morton Stanley


Sir Henry Morton Stanley is famously quoted for saying "Dr Livingstone, i Presume?". Born in Wales, he migrated over to the United…

The Witch of Salem

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John R. Musick


A historical novel about the Salem Witch Trials. A fantastic illustrated historical novel by the prolific American author John R. Musick.Fro…

The Silence Dogood Letters

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Benjamin Franklin


As a teenager, Benjamin Franklin apprenticed with his brother James at the shop where The New-England Courant was printed. Since James would…

The Return of the Native

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Thomas Hardy


Like all of Hardy's work, The Return of the Native (1878) is passionate and controversial, with themes and sympathies beyond what a good Vic…

Music Notation and Terminology

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Karl Wilson Gehrkens


Until relatively recently, music students at all levels of study—from the conservatories to public schools—had few resources available for t…

Electra

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Sophocles


Sophocles' play dramatizes the aftermath of Agamemnon's murder by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. His daughter Electra is hu…

Fenton's Quest

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


This story revolves around Gilbert Fenton, a very talented middle class businessman from London, who falls in love with a beautiful country …

The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the kingdoms and marvels o…

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Rustichello Da Pisa


"Books of the Marvels of the World" or "Description of the World" (Divisament dou monde), also nicknamed "Il Milion…

Ghost Story Collection 006

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A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyo…

Indian Child Life

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Charles Alexander Eastman


The author was raised as an American Indian and describes what it was like to be an Indian boy (the first 7 chapters) and an Indian Girl (th…

Jane Austen's Juvenilia

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Jane Austen


Before becoming the author of such classics as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Jane Austen experimented with various w…

The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna

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James Fenimore Cooper


The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is one of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American wr…

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

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Christopher Marlowe


The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, normally known simply as Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story,…

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