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1912: Short Works Collection
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This is a collection of public domain works either published in 1912, or written in 1912 and published before 1923. The accent is on non-fic…
A Traveller in War-Time
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Winston Churchill
This is a collection of a series of journalistic articles written during his travels throughout WWI era Europe that Churchill -- the America…
Rain
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W. Somerset Maugham
One of Maugham's most famous short stories, Rain unfolds in a soggy tropical paradise marred by self-righteous hypocrites trying to force th…
The Offshore Pirate
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
This is a long short story in 6 parts from Fitzgerald's 1920 short story collection, Flappers and Philosophers. It predates the screwball mo…
37 American Poems
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Here are 37 distinctively American poems, covering the mid-17th - early 20th Centuries, from Anne Bradstreet to Dorothy Parker's sole PD wor…
Cat Tales
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Cat Tales is the first of a series of kid-friendly collections of animal stories and non-fiction. There'll be one or two grade-school-level …
The Long Ago
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Jacob William Wright and J. W. Wright
Short memory of boyhood by a little-known American poet based in Carmel-By-The-Sea, California. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
A Little Florida Lady
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Dorothy C. Paine
This is the story of a little girl from New York who moves with her family to Florida in the late 19th Century. Parental warning: as this bo…
Amy Foster
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Joseph Conrad
Classic shortish story by Conrad that relates his self-thought alienation from British society, as a young foreign man survives a shipwreck …
Arizona Sketches
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Joseph Munk
An introduction to Arizona from approximately a century ago. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
Cocoa Break Collection, Vol. 01
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Following in the vein of my Coffee-Break collections, this is a collection of short (all under 15 minutes) stories for kids. Focus is on fab…
British & American Periodical Articles 1852-1905
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A dozen assorted articles from British and American periodicals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Punch, The Chicago Record-Herald, Chambers'…
The House of Mirth (Version 2)
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Edith Wharton
Wharton's classic story of an aging (by Victorian-era standards) spinster socialite who would rather marry for money than for true love. (Su…
Gentle Julia
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Booth Tarkington
Penrod for girls in the form of Florence, the bratty younger cousin of luminous Julia Atwater, enlivens this romantic comedy set in Tarkingt…
Evelina's Garden
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
This is a long short story from 1899, approximately 95 minutes more or less, about a mysterious woman living virtually alone on the outskirt…
The Scrap Book (volume 1) Sampler
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18 works -- two non-fic articles & one short fiction or poetry each -- from issues March, April, May, June, July, & August 1906 of T…
A Little Bush Maid
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Mary Grant Bruce
An Australian children's classic about life on a ranch around the same time of A Little Florida Lady, with a similarly plucky tomboy heroine…
Collection: Tales of the Cities
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This is a collection of city stories, fiction or non-fiction, in English and published before 1923. Contributions have been chosen by the re…
The Drama: A Quarterly Review
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This is a collection of theatrical essays from the American quarterly The Drama, including six non-fiction works -- 3 profiles: Schnitzler, …
Edgewater People
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
A collection of interrelated short stories concerning the townfolk of a few small New England villages at the turn of the last century. (Sum…
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pretty but socially clueless Bernice lets her know-it-all cousin push her around, but eventually, something's gotta give! (Introduction by B…
Jesus of Nazareth, A Biography
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John Mark and King James Version
"Jesus of Nazareth, a Biography, by John Mark," recognizes the author of the second Gospel as that "John, whose surname was M…
The Rover Boys at School
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Arthur M. Winfield
First of the famous Rover Boys books by future Hardy Boys creator Edward Stratemeyer (under the pseudonym Arthur M Winfield), this is an int…
The Gray Plague
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Lloyd Eshbach
End of the world sci-fi tale borrows heavily from H.G. Wells' WOTW and In The Days of the Comet -- looks like fun ! ( Summary by BellonaTime…
Little Tales of the Desert
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Ethel Twycross Foster
A six year-old girl named Mary spends Christmas vacation with her parents in the Arizona desert of 1901 or thereabouts. ( Summary by Bellona…
The Ice Palace (version 3)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The story is about Sally Carrol Happer, a young southern woman from the fictional city of Tarleton, Georgia, who becomes engaged one summer …
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…
The Bent Twig
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th - early 20th Century as seen by fa…
30 American Poems
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This is a sequel of sorts to 37 American Poems, one of my first solos. Concentration here is on late 19th to early 20th Century works by US …
Flowers and Ferns in their Haunts
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Mabel Osgood Wright
Pleasant non-fiction journey into the backwoods of the New England coastal countryside by the first president of the Connecticut Audubon Soc…
O Pioneers! (version 2)
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Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather
O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska…
Arcadia in Avernus
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Will Lillibridge
Unhappy wife leaves marriage of convenience for another man, the couple running away to the Dakota prairie to set up housekeeping. All seems…
Captives of the Flame
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Samuel R. Delaney and Samuel R. Delany
Chip Delany's 2nd novel -- the first is The Jewels of Aptor (1962) -- published by Ace Books in 1963. Set in the 35th Century, the survivors…
The Jewels of Aptor
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Samuel R. Delaney and Samuel R. Delany
Delany's first novel, from 1962, serves as a sort of prologue to the subsequent Captives of the Flame, 1963. Set several centuries after the…
1891 Collection
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A look at the year 1891 through literature and non-fiction essays first published that year, including works by Mary E Wilkins, Sir Arthur C…
1903 Collection
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This is what people were reading in 1903, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction articles. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
The Mason-Bees
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Jean-Henri Fabre
This is more than a book about bees and their lives; the author talks about his cats, red ants, and insect psychology in general. Jean Hen…
The Boy Chums in the Florida Jungle
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Wilmer M. Ely
Late entry in the Boy Chums series set in WWI-era Florida focuses on four working-class adventurers: young adults Charley & Walter, man…
Helen in the Editor's Chair
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Ruthe S. Wheeler
After her father, Hugh Blair, falls ill from exhaustion as editor of the town newspaper, The Rolfe Herald, and leaves for a rest cure in the…
The Caves of Fear
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Harold L. Goodwin
Entry in the Rick Brant series by Goodwin under the name John Blaine, which began in 1947. 'Rick and Scotty travel to the Himalayas again, …
The Life of the Fly, With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography
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Jean-Henri Fabre
The title tells all, along with other observations on insect life from the famed accidental entomologist of 19th Century France.. - Summary …
The Heron Nest
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W. Bert Foster
Pleasant family drama set in early 1900's or late 1890's upstate New York. The Herron clan, led by heroic, inventive, handicapped older bro…
A Cabinet Secret
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Guy Boothby
Witty spy adventure set during the Boer Wars of the late 19th Century. - Summary by BellonaTimes
The Dude Wrangler
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Caroline Lockhart
Spoiled, handsome, 24 year old Easterner meets pretty, no-nonsense gal from Wyoming, is instantly smitten and does a sea-change to try and i…
Swamp Island
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Mildred A. Wirt Benson
Late entry in the Penny Parker teen girl mystery series (1939-47) by one of the early ghostwriters (as Carolyn Keene) of Nancy Drew concerns…
Clinical Medicine For Nurses
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Paul H. Ringer
The basics of clinical medicine for nurses in WWI-era America from a series of lectures by the author, an Asheville, NC physician. - Summary…
The Rover Boys in the Jungle
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Arthur M. Winfield
Third entry in the then-popular boys' adventure series has the Rover brothers (Tom, Dick, & Sam) heading to Africa to search for their l…
A Student's History of American Literature
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William Simonds
Engaging history of American Lit from the 1600's up through the late 1890's. The author, who was a professor at Knox College, really put a …
By The Turtles of Tasman
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Jack London
Turn of the century sibling rivalry between successful but uptight California businessman and his ne'er-do-well older brother, both widowers…
The Rover Boys Out West
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Arthur M. Winfield
Despite the title, the Rover Brothers spend several chapters -- over half the book -- back East, against arch-nemeses Josiah Crabtree and th…
Miss Ingalis
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Gertrude Hall
As the story begins, title character Grace Ingalis is a young woman with a middle-class socialite's upbringing who decides to marry a well-o…