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John MacNab
Sir Edward Leithen and his friends Lord Lamancha, Palliser-Yeates, and Archie Roylance are bored of life. After Leithen's doctor recommends …
Reading: An Essay
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
The Man in the Stalls
In Five Little Plays
In this engaging collection, British playwright Alfred Sutro presents five distinct one-act plays that explore the complexities of human rel…
Pipefuls
A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course a…
England
In Three Hills
In this short collection of poetry published in 1916, the Reverend Everard Owen explores the sacrifices of the First World War from an Engli…
The Hon. Clive Torby
In The Thirteen Travelers
The year is 1919 and peace has sprung upon the world after the unspeakable carnage of World War I. The place is Hortons, a building of expen…
Batard
In The Faith of Men
The Faith of Men is a compelling collection of short stories by Jack London that explores the rugged lives of men and women in the unforgivi…
BLUEBEARD’S CUPBOARD
In Unvarnished Tales
This book is a short selection of varied fictional tales. They must have been what the author wished for them to be and certainly perfect fo…
TPN 02
In Write Now! The Prisoner of NaNoWriMo
Piers Langland is a mild mannered paint salesman with one burning passion. He aspires to be a famous author. Each November he looks forwar…
Clancy of the Overflow
In The Man From Snowy River and Other Verses (version 2)
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses (1895) is the first collection of poems by Australian poet Banjo Paterson. It was released in hard…
Enter The Sweep
In William The Conqueror
William is at it again. The world’s most chaos-creating and confident eleven year old boy. Thirteen more humorous stories in this 1926 col…
An Edinburgh Eleven: Professor Fraser
In LibriVox 11th Anniversary Collection
"LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to li…
Antony Villa
In Verses Popular And Humorous (Version 2)
Verses, Popular and Humorous (1900) was the second collection of poems by Australian poet Henry Lawson. It features some of the poet's earli…
The Book-Stall by Clinton Scollard
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 2)
The sixth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, incl…
The Pipes of the North by E. Sutton
In Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1914
William Stanley Braithwaite, a talented poet in his own right, was most notable for his anthologies of poetry including these annual collect…
Pierrot
In The Poems of James Hebblethwaite
James Hebblethwaite (22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921) was an English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman. Hebblethwaite was a …
Le renard
In La femme cachée
Recueil de vingt-deux jolies nouvelles brèves et concises, qui sentent bon la Belle Époque. Les personnages voient leur vie ba…
Introduction
In Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People
This work is a collection of tales told by Elders in a Blackfoot lodge centered around the tribe. In addition to the traditional stories and…
Brendan
In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 083
“Oh, mother, I would like to know everything.” “You can never know everything, my child, but you can learn many things from books.” Accordin…
Pensioner, The
In The Best British Short Stories of 1922
The Best British Short Stories is a curated collection featuring twenty-four short stories from a diverse array of British authors, both ren…