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Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island

Treasure Island is an adventure novel, a thrilling tale of «buccaneers and buried gold.» Traditionally considered a coming of age story, it is an adventure tale of superb atmosphere, character and action, and also a...

Mark Bradford and 12 more 7 hours 29 minutes

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Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe

Follows the fortunes of the son of a noble Saxon family in Norman England as he woos his lady, disobeys his father, and is loved by another. Set in late 12C England and in Palestine with Richard Cœur-de-Lion at the...

Kristin LeMoine and 7 more 19 hours 25 minutes

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Johann David Wyss - Swiss Family Robinson

The Swiss Family Robinson has delighted generations of readers with its exciting tale of a family which, though shipwrecked, displays “the right stuff” and builds a charming colony that later, they do not want to...

Mark F. Smith 12 hours 48 minutes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Lost World

The Lost World is a 1912 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau (native name is Tepuyes) in South America (Venezuela) where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still...

Menno and 6 more 8 hours

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Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children

Children's Fiction

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James Baldwin - Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children

Adaptation of the story of Robinson Crusoe for grammar school children. Tells how the shipwrecked sailor makes a new life for himself on the island, providing shelter, food, and clothing for himself from the few...

Denny Sayers 3 hours 41 minutes

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Edgar Rice Burroughs - Princess of Mars

Part One of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Mars-Series. Easy, swank, pulp read about an omnipotent gentleman teleported to Mars, finding an outlandish society of ape-, tree- and lizardmen, red-, white-, yellowmen, brains on...

Stephan Möbius and 9 more 7 hours 10 minutes

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Jules Verne - Journey to the Interior of the Earth

Journey to the Interior of the Earth is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre de la Terre). The story involves a professor who leads his nephew and hired...

Vinny Bove and 11 more 8 hours 10 minutes

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Jack London - Call of the Wild

In this novel (often mistakenly classified a children’s book) the main protagonist Buck, a St. Bernard/Collie mix, is abducted and sold to a trainer of sled dogs in Alaska. He adapts to the brutal conditions and is...

Gord Mackenzie and 3 more 3 hours 23 minutes

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Unknown - Beowulf

Beowulf. [Translated by Francis Barton Gummere].This is a short but beautiful book, and the Gummere translation really captures the feel of the Old English. Beowulf tells the story of a mysterious young warrior who...

Kara Shallenberg and 6 more 3 hours 1 minute

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Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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Mark Twain - Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Come and hear the strange tail of The Boss Hank Morgan, a modern day (at the time of publication) Connecticut Yankee who inexplicably finds himself transported to the court of the legendary King Arthur (as the title...

Steve Andersen 13 hours 42 minutes

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Alexandre Dumas - Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is not one of the...

Kristin LeMoine and 26 more 24 hours 50 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Howard Pyle - Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Robin Hood is the archetypal English folk hero; a courteous, pious and swashbuckling outlaw of the mediæval era who, in modern versions of the legend, is famous for robbing the rich to feed the poor and fighting...

Alex Foster and 12 more 11 hours

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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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