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Edgar Rice Burroughs - Land that Time Forgot

The Land That Time Forgot is a science fiction novel, the first of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Caspak trilogy. His working title for the story was «The Lost U-Boat.» Starting out as a harrowing wartime sea adventure, the...

Ralph Snelson 3 hours 49 minutes

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550

Edgar Rice Burroughs - At the Earth's Core

This is the first book in the Pellucidar series. Pellucidar is a fictional Hollow Earth milieu invented by Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories. The stories initially involve the adventures...

Great Plains and 2 more 4 hours 38 minutes

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529

Murray Leinster - Space Tug

Joe Kenmore heard the airlock close with a sickening wheeze and then a clank. In desperation he turned toward Haney. «My God, we've been locked out!» Through the transparent domes of their space helmets, Joe...

Mark Nelson 6 hours 18 minutes

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 3)

Children's Fiction

547

Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 3)

The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River, and its sober and often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his...

Ted Kaouk and 16 more 11 hours 20 minutes

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Children's Fiction

570

Rudyard Kipling - Puck of Pook's Hill

Puck of Pook's Hill is a children's book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of history. The stories are all told to two children living near Pevensey...

icyjumbo 5 hours 57 minutes

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Children's Fiction

570

Robert Louis Stevenson - Kidnapped

David Balfour, a lad of seventeen and newly orphaned, is directed to go and live with his rich uncle, the master of the estate of Shaws in the lowlands of Scotland near Edinburgh. His uncle, Ebenezer (as close a miser...

Mark F. Smith 8 hours 18 minutes

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Adele Garrison - Revelations of a Wife

Adele Garrison was the nom de plume of Nana Springer White, an American writer. Her career included time as a schoolteacher in Milwaukee. She later worked as an editor for the Milwaukee Sentinel and then a reporter...

Maire Rhode 11 hours 47 minutes

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G. K. Chesterton - Napoleon of Notting Hill

While the novel is humorous (one instance has the King sitting on top of an omnibus and speaking to it as to a horse: «Forward, my beauty, my Arab,» he said, patting the omnibus encouragingly, «fleetest of all thy...

Ray Clare 5 hours 56 minutes

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John Buchan - Thirty-nine Steps

Richard Hannay’s boredom is soon relieved when the resourceful engineer is caught up in a web of secret codes, spies, and murder on the eve of WWI. This exciting action-adventure story was the inspiration for Alfred...

Adrian Praetzellis 4 hours 20 minutes

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H. Rider Haggard - She and Allan

H Rider Haggard’s “She and Allan”, first published in 1921 is a gripping adventure about Allan Quatermain, who together with Hans, the Hottentot and, the Zulu-Chief Omslopogaas and at the bidding of the old Witch...

Lars Rolander 14 hours 14 minutes Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library

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578

Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Coming Race

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as «the...

Maire Rhode 6 hours 55 minutes

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George W. M. Reynolds - Mysteries of London Vol. I part 1

The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England. The first series was published in weekly instalments from 1844-46, priced at a penny each. Serialised novels sold in this way were known as...

Cori Samuel and 20 more 22 hours 43 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

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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