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H. Rider Haggard - Black Heart and White Heart

Black Heart and White Heart , is a story of the courtship, trials and final union of a pair of Zulu lovers in the time of King Cetywayo. (Introduction by H. Rider Haggard)

Vira Denton 2 hours 26 minutes

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Alice Muriel Williamson - House by the Lock

What secrets lay within the walls of the house by the lock? What secrets, if any, are held by the man who owns that mysterious house? A body is found in a backwater creek not far from the house by the lock, but...

Roger Melin 6 hours 13 minutes

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Max Brand - Way of the Lawless

He made one mistake in the beginning. He pushed the chestnut too hard the first and second days, so that on the third day he was forced to give the gelding his head and go at a jarring trot most of the day. On the...

Richard Kilmer 7 hours 39 minutes

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Jack London - Mutiny of the Elsinore

This is the story of a voyage of a sailing ship from Baltimore to Seattle, east-to-west around Cape Horn in the winter. It is set in 1913 and the glory days of “wooden ships and iron men” are long over. The Elsinore...

Tom Crawford 12 hours 29 minutes

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George Meredith - Shaving of Shagpat

The novel is a humorous oriental romance and allegory written in the style of the Arabian Nights. Like its model, it includes a number of stories within the story, along with poetic asides. (Summary by Wikipedia.)...

Matthew Reece and 5 more 9 hours 4 minutes

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J. Walker McSpadden - Robin Hood

Robin Hood is a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for «robbing from the rich and giving to the poor», assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his «Merry...

Barry Eads 5 hours 56 minutes

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Jack London - Call of the Wild (Version 3)

Buck is living a happy life in California until he is sold to pay a gambling debt. Taken to the Klondike to become a sled dog, Buck must toughen up and learn the harsher rules of survival in the North. One of the...

Mark F. Smith 3 hours 24 minutes

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Harry Collingwood - For Treasure Bound

For Treasure Bound is one of the earlier novels by Harry Collingwood (William Joseph Cosens Lancaster), published in 1897. We follow the hero, whose name is incidentally also Harry Collingwood, on a quest to the...

Adrian Wheal and 5 more 10 hours 14 minutes

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H. Rider Haggard - Ivory Child

Allan Quatermain's first adventure with Lord Ragnall. (Introduction by laineyben)

laineyben 10 hours 52 minutes

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Frederick O. Bartlett - Web of the Golden Spider

The Web of the Golden Spider is a tale of mystery, intrigue and adventure that begins in the city, progresses to a mutinous open sea voyage, eventually leading to the remotest areas on the slopes of the Andes of...

Roger Melin 10 hours 35 minutes

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John Jeffery Farnol - Broad Highway

Our hero, Peter Vibart, an Oxford graduate with no means of support but for 10 guineas he has inherited, sets out on a walking tour of the Kent countryside. Along the way, he meets many quaint and adoring characters...

John Lieder and 6 more 15 hours 51 minutes

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Rex Beach - Spoilers

Rex Beach was born in Atwood, Michigan to a prominent family and pursued a career as a lawyer before being drawn to Alaska at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush. After five years of unsuccessful prospecting, he...

Tom Weiss 8 hours 31 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

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Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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