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Thomas Mayne Reid - Gwen Wynn - A Romance of the Wye

Gwendoline Wynn, our heroine, is an orphan-heiress who lives on the river Wye. She will live with aunt until she comes of age and her money. Vivian Ryecroft, our hero and a captain in the Hussars, is on a leave of...

MaryAnn and 6 more 15 hours 5 minutes

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Henry Blake Fuller - Bertram Cope's Year

This novel was perhaps the most daring and affirmative LGBT literature of the first two decades of the 20th century in America. In this story, Bertram Cope is a young college instructor, about twenty-four years old...

James K. White 8 hours 49 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

486

Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué - Sintram and His Companions

Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, also the author of Undine, was a German Romantic writer whose stories were filled with knights, damsels in distress, evil enchantments, and the struggle of good against overpowering evil....

Anna Simon and 4 more 4 hours 2 minutes

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William Le Queux - Seven Secrets

A true “whodunit” with as many twists and turns as an English country road. Old man Courtenay is found murdered in his bed. Dr. Ralph Boyd is summoned to Courtenay Manor to examine the slain man and discovers a clue...

Tom Weiss 7 hours 45 minutes

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Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches

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444

Mark Twain - Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches

As the title reveals, these stories are a collection of some of Mark Twain's more fanciful and eccentric works. They run the gamut from political commentary to our species' need to «be remembered» somehow. Taken as a...

John Greenman 1 hour 53 minutes

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Henry James - Bostonians, Vol. 1 & 2

This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and Verena Tarrant, a pretty,...

Isabelle Brasme and 9 more 16 hours 48 minutes

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494

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Emily Fox-Seton

Have you ever wondered what happened to Cinderella after she married the prince? Have you ever asked yourself if it was really «happy ever after?» Actually, in this Victorian melodrama, it's not. 35-years-old Emily...

Caroline Driggs 7 hours 27 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

454

Donald Alexander Mackenzie - Elves and Heroes

This volume describes, in verse, the mythical creatures and people of ancient Scotland. It also includes explanatory notes about about the characters and folk tales that inspired the author's poetry. (Introduction...

Matthew Reece 1 hour 53 minutes

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General Fiction

465

Stephen Crane - Selected Short Stories

At the time of his death at the age of 28, Stephen Crane had become an important figure in American literature. He was nearly forgotten, however, until two decades later when critics revived interest in his life and...

Greg W. 7 hours 7 minutes

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Children's Fiction

442

Charles Morris - Historical Tales, Vol VI: French

Volume VI of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This fifth volume covers the history of France from the Hun invasion of Europe in the 5th century up to...

Kalynda 7 hours 52 minutes Historical Tales

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Action & Adventure Fiction

576

Jules Verne - Mysterious Island (version 2)

The book tells the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. The story begins in the American Civil War, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of...

Alisson Veldhuis and 13 more 23 hours 23 minutes

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Pride and Prejudice (version 6, dramatic reading)

Dramatic Readings

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Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (version 6, dramatic reading)

Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the...

11 hours 58 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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