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Wild Nature Won By Kindness, by Elizabeth Brightwen 21111
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Big Game, by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey 21109
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Afloat at Last, by John Conroy Hutcheson 21104
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Sisters Three, by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey 21103
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Tom and Some Other Girls, by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey 21102
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Pixie O'Shaughnessy, by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey 21101
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Titus Andronicus, by William Shakespeare 21100
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More About Peggy, by Mrs G. de Horne Vaizey 21099
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The Independence of Claire, by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey 21098
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Tom Finch's Monkey, by John C. Hutcheson 21097
[Subtitle: and How he Dined with the Admiral]
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She and I, Volume 2, by John Conroy Hutcheson 21096
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She and I, Volume 1, by John Conroy Hutcheson 21095
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The Girl in the Golden Atom, by Raymond King Cummings 21094
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The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919, by Various 21093
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On the Trail of the Space Pirates, by Carey Rockwell 21092
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The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3), by John Morley 21091
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Brief History of English and American Literature, by Henry A. Beers 21090
[Author: Introduction and Supplementary Chapters on the Religious
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Young Tom Bowling, by J.C. Hutcheson 21089
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The White Squall, by John Conroy Hutcheson 21088
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The Ghost Ship, by John C. Hutcheson 21087
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The Penang Pirate, by John Conroy Hutcheson 21086
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The Wreck of the Nancy Bell, by J. C. Hutcheson 21085
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Jokes For All Occasions, by Anonymous 21084
[Subtitle: Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost
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American Society of Civil Engineers, Sept. 1910, by F. Lavis 21083
[Full title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers,
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Salmos do prisioneiro, by Jaime de Magalhães Lima 21082
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Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880, Various 21081
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The Astral Plane, by C. W. Leadbeater 21080
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The Mind and the Brain, by Alfred Binet 21077
[Subtitle: Being the Authorised Translation of L'me et le Corps]
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The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid, by John Casey 21076
[Subtitle: And Propositions I.-XXI. of Book XI., and an
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[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/0/7/21076 ]
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The Cruise of the Thetis, by Harry Collingwood 21075
[Subtitle: A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection]
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A Pirate of the Caribbees, by Harry Collingwood 21073
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The Pirate Island, by Harry Collingwood 21072
[Subtitle: A Story of the South Pacific]
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The Rover's Secret, by Harry Collingwood 21071
[Subtitle: A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba]
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A Middy of the Slave Squadron, by Harry Collingwood 21070
[Subtitle: A West African Story]
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Under the Meteor Flag, by Harry Collingwood 21068
[Subtitle: Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War]
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Overdue, by Harry Collingwood 21067
[Subtitle: The Story of a Missing Ship]
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Harry Escombe, by Harry Collingwood 21066
[Subtitle: A Tale of Adventure in Peru]
[Illustrator: Victor Prout]
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The Log of a Privateersman, by Harry Collingwood 21065
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A Middy in Command, by Harry Collingwood 21064
[Subtitle: A Tale of the Slave Squadron]
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The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer, by Harry Collingwood 21062
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[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/0/6/21062 ]
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Under the Chilian Flag, by Harry Collingwood 21061
[Subtitle: A Tale of War between Chili and Peru]
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[Subtitle: A Story of the Slave Squadron]
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The Adventures of Dick Maitland, by Harry Collingwood 21059
[Subtitle: A Tale of Unknown Africa]
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The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn, by Harry Collingwood 21058
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The Log of the Flying Fish, by Harry Collingwood 21057
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Among the Great Masters of Music, by Walter Rowlands 21056
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The New Morning, by Alfred Noyes 21029
[Subtitle: Poems]
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 17, 1892, Various 21028
[Editor: Francis Burnand]
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The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, by William Brodie Gurney 21027
[Full title: The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas
Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew
Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom,
Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for
A Conspiracy]
[Subtitle: In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the
8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814]
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Vähemmät eepilliset runoelmat, by Johan Ludvig Runeberg 21026
[Translator: Kaarlo Forsman]
[Language: Finnish]
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The Village Wife's Lament, by Maurice Hewlett 21025
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The Angels' Song, by Thomas Guthrie 21024
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Mémoires du duc de Rovigo, Tome 3, by Duc de Rovigo 21023
[Full title: Mémoires du duc de Rovigo, pour servir à l'histoire de
l'empereur Napoléon, Tome 3]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/0/2/21023 ]
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Lessons on Soil, by E. J. Russell 21022
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Die Biene Maja und ihre Abenteuer, by Waldemar Bonsels 21021
[Language: German]
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The Little Clay Cart, by (Attributed To) King Shudraka 21020
[Subtitle: Mrcchakatika]
[Translator: Arthur William Ryder]
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[Files: 21020.txt; 21020-8.txt; 21020-0.txt; 21020-h.htm]
At the Deathbed of Darwinism, by Eberhard Dennert 21019
[Subtitle: A Series of Papers]
[Translator: Edwin V. O'Harra and John H. Peschges]
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[Files: 21019.txt; 21019-h.htm]
Munkkiniemen Elsa, by Eero Sissala 21018
[Language: Finnish]
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La San-Felice, Tome 8, by Alexandre Dumas 21017
[Language: French]
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Essays on the Theory of Numbers, by Richard Dedekind 21016
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/0/1/21016 ]
[Translator: Wooster Woodruff Beman]
[Files: 21016-t.tex; 21016-pdf.pdf]
The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk, by Thornton W. Burgess 21015
[Ill.: Harrison Cady]
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Wonder-Box Tales, by Jean Ingelow 21014
[Ill.: Diantha W. Horne]
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Histoire de la magie, by Éliphas Lévi 21013
[Language: French]
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The Loyalists of America and Their Times, by Edgerton Ryerson 21012
[Subtitle: From 1620-1816]
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Tratado das Ilhas Novas, by Francisco de Souza 21011
[Language: Portuguese]
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444, by Various 21010
[Subtitle: Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852]
[Editor: William Chambers
Robert Chambers]
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866, by Various 21009
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The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries, by Francis Rolt-Wheeler 21008
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The Bird Study Book, by Thomas Gilbert Pearson 21007
[Ill.: Will Simmons]
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The Governments of Europe, by Frederic Austin Ogg 21006
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Shorty McCabe on the Job, by Sewell Ford 21005
[Ill.: F. Vaux Wilson]
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The Singing Mouse Stories, by Emerson Hough 21004
[Ill.: Mayo Bunker]
[Contents: The Land of the Singing Mouse]
[ The Burden of a Song]
[ The Little River]
[ What the Waters Said]
[ Lake Belle-Marie]
[ The Skull and the Rose]
[ The Man of the Mountain]
[ At the Place of the Oaks]
[ The Birth of the Hours]
[ The Stone That Had No Thought]
[ The Tear and the Smile]
[ How the Mountains Ate Up the Plains]
[ The Savage and Its Heart]
[ The Beast Terrible]
[ The Passing of Men]
[ The House of Truth]
[ Where the City Went]
[ The Bell and the Shadows]
[ Of the Greatest Sorrow]
[ The Shoes of the Princess]
[ Of White Moths]
[ The House of Dreams]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/0/0/21004 ]
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Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely, by W. D. Sweeting 21003
[Author AKA: Walter Debenham Sweeting (1839-1913)]
[Subtitle: A History and Description of the Building with a Short
Account of the Monastery and of the See]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/0/0/21003 ]
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, by Thomas Jefferson 21002
[Subtitle: Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20)]
[Editor: Andrew A Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/0/0/21002 ]
[Files: 21002.txt; 21002-8.txt; 21002-h.htm]
Terre-Neuve et les Terre-Neuviennes, by Henri de La Chaume 21001
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/0/0/21001 ]
[Files: 21001-8.txt; 21001-0.txt; 21001-h.htm]
Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 21000
[Subtitle: Eine Tragödie]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/0/0/21000 ]
[Files: 21000-8.txt; 21000-0.txt; 21000-h.htm]
Á hora do crime, by Francisco Luiz Coutinho de Miranda 20999
[Subtitle: phantasia dramatica em 1 acto a proposito do assassinato
do General Prim]
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/9/20999 ]
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A fundação da monarchia portugueza, by A. A. Teixeira de Vasconcellos 20998
[Subtitle: narração anti-iberica]
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/9/20998 ]
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The Nürnberg Stove, by Louisa de la Ramé (AKA Ouida) 20997
[Illustrator: Maria L. Kirk]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/9/20997 ]
[Files: 20997.txt; 20997-8.txt; 20997-h.htm]
An Epoch in History, by P. H. Eley 20996
[Author AKA: Peter Harden Eley]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/9/20996 ]
[Files: 20996.txt; 20996-8.txt; 20996-h.htm; ]
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Fighting in France, by Ross Kay 20995
[Ill.: Charles L. Wrenn]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/9/20995 ]
[Files: 20995.txt; 20995-8.txt; 20995-h.htm; ]
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Kilgorman, by Talbot Baines Reed 20994
[Subtitle: A Story of Ireland in 1798]
[Illustrator: W.S. Stacey]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/9/20994 ]
[Files: 20994.txt; 20994-h.htm]
Sir Ludar, by Talbot Baines Reed 20993
[Subtitle: A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/9/20993 ]
[Files: 20993.txt; 20993-h.htm]
Tom, Dick and Harry, by Talbot Baines Reed 20992
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/9/20992 ]
[Files: 20992.txt; 20992-8.txt; 20992-h.htm]
Follow My leader, by Talbot Baines Reed 20991
[Subtitle: The Boys of Templeton]
[Illustrator: W.S. Stacey]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/9/20991 ]
[Files: 20991.txt; 20991-8.txt; 20991-h.htm]
London and the Kingdom (Vol. 2 of 3), by Reginald Sharpe 20990
[Subtitle: A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall
in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/9/20990 ]
[Files: 20990.txt; 20990-8.txt; 20990-0.txt; 20990-tei.tei;
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'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts, by Spokeshave (AKA Old Fogy) 20989
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/8/20989 ]
[Files: 20989.txt; 20989-8.txt; 20989-h.htm]
Islands of Space, by John W Campbell 20988
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/8/20988 ]
[Files: 20988.txt; 20988-h.htm]
Story of the War in South Africa, by Alfred T. Mahan 20987
[Subtitle: 1899-1900]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/8/20987 ]
[Files: 20987.txt; 20987-8.txt; 20987-h.htm]
Tom Slade with the Colors, by Percy K. Fitzhugh 20986
[Illustrator: Thomas Clarity]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/8/20986 ]
[Files: 20986.txt; 20986-8.txt; 20986-h.htm]
The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, by George A. Warren 20985
[Subtitle: The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/8/20985 ]
[Files: 20985.txt; 20985-h.htm; ]
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Prudy Keeping House, by Sophie May 20984
[Sophie May is a pseudonym for Rebecca S. Clarke.]
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[Files: 20984.txt; 20984-8.txt; 20984-h.htm; ]
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Courts and Cabinets of George the Third, by Duke of Buckingham 20982
[Full title: Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third]
[Full author: The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos]
[Subtitle: From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 (of 2)]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/8/20982 ]
[Files: 20982.txt; 20982-8.txt; 20982-h.htm]
Audio: History of England - Vol 2, Chap 6 by Thomas Babington Macaulay 20976
[Audio reading by JemmaBlythe, Kirsten Ferreri, Robin Cotter,
Chris Chapman, ianish, GarretAuNaturale,
Cori Samuel, Jack Sundrud ]
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Audio: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days by Nellie Bly 20975
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Audio: J'accuse...! by Emile Zola 20974
[Audio reading by Ezwa ]
[Language: French ]
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Audio: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours by Jules Verne 20973
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Audio: Histoires ou Contes du temps passe avec des moralites 20972
by Charles Perrault
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[Language: French ]
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Audio: Liian Paha Sappi by Aaro Hellaakoski 20970
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Audio: Three Short Stories in the Maastricht Dialect 20969
by Alphonse Olterdissen
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Audio: Three Hundred Tang Poems by Various 20968
[Audio reading by David Barnes, Mr Zhuang Shiguang, Mike Scott,
Li Su-hsiang, Graham, Jin Yilin, Leu Poon PoChin,
ianish, Cyril Law, Jr.]
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Robert Hardy's Seven Days, by Charles Monroe Sheldon 20983
[Subtitle: A Dream and Its Consequences]
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Tristram of Blent, by Anthony Hope 20981
[Subtitle: An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House]
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A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections, Isabel Florence Hapgood 20980
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Brother Copas, by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 20979
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A Hungarian Nabob, by Maurus Jókai 20978
[Translator: R. Nisbet Bain]
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Im Sonnenschein, by Theodor Storm 20977
[Subtitle: Novelle]
[Language: German]
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The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral, by George S. Phillips 20967
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[Files: 20967.txt; 20967-8.txt; 20967-h.htm]
De l'éducation d'un homme sauvage, by Jean Itard 20966
[Subtitle: ou des premiers développemens physiques et moraux du jeune
sauvage de l'Aveyron]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/6/20966 ]
[Files: 20966-8.txt; 20966-h.htm]
Die Kugel, by Otto zur Linde 20965
[Subtitle: Eine Philosophie in Versen]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/6/20965 ]
[Files: 20965-8.txt; 20965-0.txt; 20965-h.htm]
Pauvre petite!, by Paul Bourget 20964
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/6/20964 ]
[Files: 20964-8.txt; 20964-h.htm]
Grandmother Dear, by Mrs. Molesworth 20963
[Subtitle: A Book for Boys and Girls]
[Ill.: Walter Crane]
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[Files: 20963.txt; 20963-8.txt; 20963-h.htm; ]
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Sandman's Goodnight Stories, by Abbie Phillips Walker 20962
[Ill.: Rhoda C. Chase]
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The Masques of Ottawa, by Domino 20961
[Author AKA: Augustus Bridle]
["Domino" was a psuedonym used by Augustus Bridle (1869-?)]
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Yksillä juurilla, by Beatrice Harraden 20960
[Translator: Samuli Suomalainen]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/6/20960 ]
[Files: 20960-8.txt]
Mexico, by Charles Reginald Enock 20959
[Subtitle: Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political
Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and
General Development]
[Editor: Martin Hume]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/5/20959 ]
[Files: 20959.txt; 20959-h.htm]
Life in the Medieval University, by Robert S. Rait 20958
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/5/20958 ]
[Files: 20958.txt; 20958-8.txt; 20958-h.htm]
Een Broertje van den Beer, by William J. Long 20957
[Illustrator: Charles Copeland]
[Translator: Cilia Stoffel]
[Language: Dutch]
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[Files: 20957-8.txt; 20957-h.htm]
In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV), by Harrison S. Morris 20956
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/5/20956 ]
[Files: 20956.txt; 20956-8.txt; 20956-h.htm]
International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852, Various 20955
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/5/20955 ]
[Files: 20955.txt; 20955-8.txt; 20955-h.htm]
Notes and Queries, No. 179. Saturday, April 2, 1853, by Various 20954
[Subtitle: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,
Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc]
[Editor: George Bell]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/5/20954 ]
[Files: 20954.txt; 20954-8.txt; 20954-h.htm]
By the Christmas Fire, by Samuel McChord Crothers 20953
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/5/20953 ]
[Files: 20953.txt; 20953-8.txt; 20953-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: gbn0308071324]
A Jolly Jingle-Book, by Various 20952
[Editor: Laura Chandler]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/5/20952 ]
[Files: 20952.txt; 20952-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20070308103331chandler]
Met een der stoomers van de Maatschappij, by J. Craandijk 20951
[Full title: Met een der stoomers van de Maatschappij Nederland naar
Genua]
[Subtitle: De Aarde en haar Volken, 1908]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/5/20951 ]
[Files: 20951-8.txt; 20951-h.htm]
La Grande Marnière, by George Ohnet 20950
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/5/20950 ]
[Files: 20950-8.txt; 20950-0.txt; 20950-h.htm]
L'art et science de rhethorique pour faire rigmes et ballades, de Croy 20949
[Full author: Henri de Croy]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/4/20949 ]
[Files: 20949-8.txt; 20949-h.htm]
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745, by Mrs. Thomson 20948
[Subtitle: Volume III.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/4/20948 ]
[Files: 20948.txt; 20948-8.txt; 20948-h.htm]
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745, by Mrs. Thomson 20947
[Subtitle: Volume II.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/4/20947 ]
[Files: 20947.txt; 20947-8.txt; 20947-h.htm]
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745, by Mrs. Thomson 20946
[Subtitle: Volume I.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/4/20946 ]
[Files: 20946.txt; 20946-8.txt; 20946-0.txt; 20946-h.htm]
Patty Blossom, by Carolyn Wells 20945
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/4/20945 ]
[Files: 20945.txt; 20945-8.txt; ]
[Clearance: 20070308100532wells]
Nach Amerika! Zweiter Band, by Friedrich Gerstäcker 20944
[Subtitle: Ein Volksbuch]
[Illustrator: Carl Reinhardt
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/4/20944 ]
[Files: 20944.txt; 20944-8.txt; 20944-0.txt; 20944-tei.tei;
20944-h.htm; 20944-pdf.pdf]
Tri Ceteraj Noveloj, by Mark Twain 20943
[Subtitle: Three Additional Stories]
[Translator: Edwin Grobe]
[Language: Esperanto]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/4/20943 ]
[Files: 20943.txt; 20943-0.txt; 20943-h.htm]
Vasárnapi Könyv, by Anonymous 20942
[Editor: Kálmán Árkay]
[Language: Hungarian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/4/20942 ]
[Files: 20942-8; 20942-0.txt; 20942-h.htm]
American Lutheranism, by Friedrich Bente 20941
[Subtitle: Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism
and The Tennessee Synod]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/4/20941 ]
[Files: 20941.txt; 20941-8.txt]
Claridades do sul, by António Gomes Leal 20940
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/4/20940 ]
[Files: 20940-8.txt]
The Song of the Exile--A Canadian Epic, by Wilfred S. Skeats 20939
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/3/20939 ]
[Files: 20939.txt; 20939-8.txt; 20939-h.htm]
"Stops", by Paul Allardyce 20938
[Subtitle: Or How to Punctuate. A Practical Handbook for Writers
and Students]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/3/20938 ]
[Files: 20938.txt; 20938-8.txt; 20938-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20061010093323allardyce]
Cannes und Genua, by Walther Rathenau 20937
[Subtitle: Vier Reden zum Reparationsproblem]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/3/20937 ]
[Files: 20937-8.txt; 20937-0.txt; 20937-h.htm]
The New Society, by Walther Rathenau 20936
[Translator: Arthur Windham]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/3/20936 ]
[Files: 20936.txt; 20936-8.txt; 20936-h.htm]
The Substance of a Dream , by F. W. Bain 20935
[Author AKA: Francis William Bain]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/3/20935 ]
[Files: 20935.txt; 20935-8.txt; 20935-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: gbn0308180056]
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2, by Gilbert White 20934
[Editor: Henry Morley]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/3/20934 ]
[Files: 20934.txt; 20934-h.htm]
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1, by Gilbert White 20933
[Editor: Henry Morley]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/3/20933 ]
[Files: 20933.txt; 20933-h.htm]
Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford, by Edward Berens 20932
[Subtitle: In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/3/20932 ]
[Files: 20932.txt; 20932-8.txt; 20932-0.txt; 20932-h.htm]
Tri Noveloj de Usona Verkisto Bret Harte, by Bret Harte 20931
[Translator: Edwin Grobe]
[Language: Esperanto]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/3/20931 ]
[Files: 20931.txt; 20931-0.txt; 20931-h.htm]
Cosmografía, by Amédée Victor Guillemin (AKA Amadeo Guillemin) 20930
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/3/20930 ]
[Files: 20930-8.txt; 20930-h.htm]
Little Novels of Italy, by Maurice Henry Hewlett 20929
[Subtitle: Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The
Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment
Of Borso]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/2/20929 ]
[Files: 20929.txt; 20929-8.txt; 20929-h.htm]
Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863, A.J.L. Fremantle 20928
[Full author: Arthur J. L. (Lieut.-Col.) Fremantle]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/2/20928 ]
[Files: 20928.txt; 20928-8.txt; 20928-h.htm]
A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád', by Moulavi Gerágh Ali 20927
[Subtitle: Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and
that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not
Allowed in The Koran - 1885]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/9/2/20927 ]
[Files: 20927.txt; 20927-8.txt; 20927-h.htm]
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