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William Le Queux - Invasion

This novel, also known as The Invasion of 1910, is a 1906 novel written mainly by William Le Queux (with H. W. Wilson providing the naval chapters). It is one of the more famous examples of Invasion literature and is...

Tom Weiss 10 hours 34 minutes

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464

L. T. Meade - Rebel of the School

Kathleen O'Hara is a young pretty girl sent to school in England from Ireland by her father to get a good education, but Kathleen has other ideas. She quickly become friends with the girls of the school who don't pay...

Elaine Webb 11 hours 6 minutes

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Children's Fiction

495

Horatio Alger, Jr. - Cousin's Conspiracy

Ernest Ray is a young boy who sets out to reclaim the inheritance that was unjustly with held from his father and given to a cousin. (Introduction by Abigail Rasmussen)

Abigail Rasmussen 5 hours 15 minutes

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Honoré de Balzac - Louis Lambert

Louis Lambert is an 1832 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Études philosophiques section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set mostly in a school at...

Don W. Jenkins 4 hours 1 minute

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Helen Hunt Jackson - Ramona (version 2)

Set in Old California in the wake of the Mexican-American War, Ramona is two stories at once. It is the story of the love between a part-Native American orphan girl, Ramona, and Alessandro, a young Indian sheepherder....

Jacquerie 16 hours 41 minutes

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Henry Oyen - Snow-Burner

The Snow-Burner is what the Native Americans called Reivers, and it was a rough and tumble life in the land where Reivers chose to live up to his name. The name was attributed to Reivers upon his proof after arriving...

Roger Melin 11 hours 17 minutes

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Family Life

467

Pansy - Little Fishers and Their Nets

Thirteen year old Nettie Decker is called home after having lived with another family for 7 years, to find that her father is a drunkard and her family is in poverty and hopelessness because of it. Her stepmother has...

TriciaG 8 hours 43 minutes

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Daniel Defoe - Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress

The full title of the novel is Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress Or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim . The novel concerns the...

Edmund Bloxam 16 hours 25 minutes

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A. E. W. Mason - Four Feathers

The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by British writer A.E.W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title. The novel tells the story of British officer, Harry Feversham, who resigns his commission in...

Becky Cook and 10 more 11 hours 26 minutes

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Wit and Humor of America, Vol 06

The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the sixth volume, 55 short stories and poems have been gathered from 42 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)

K.G.Cross and 23 more 6 hours 19 minutes Wit and Humor of America

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Edith Wharton - Summer (version 2)

Wharton's 1917 novella Summer, like her more famous work Ethan Frome, is set in a very small rural New England town. Charity Royall longs to escape the claustrophobic confines of North Dormer and the inappropriate...

Elizabeth Klett 5 hours 41 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Frank Gee Patchin - Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies

The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies is the first book in the 12 part series by Frank Gee Patchin. (Summary by ashleighjane) Next book in the series: The Pony Rider Boys Texas

Jennifer Wiginton and 5 more 4 hours 43 minutes The Pony Rider Boys series

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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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