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Jules Verne - Facing the Flag

Like The Begum's Millions, which Verne published in 1879, it has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon (what would now be called a weapon of mass destruction) with the threat finally...

John Kooz and 2 more 6 hours 11 minutes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Great Shadow

Set in an English-Scottish border village during the waning days of the Napoleonic era, this adventure story introduces us to Jock Calder, whose quiet way of life is shattered when a mysterious stranger steps ashore...

Jacquerie 3 hours 52 minutes

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Alessandro Manzoni - Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi)

The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) presents a kaleidoscope of individual stories, which are all tied together by the story of Lucia and Renzo, two young persons of humble origin that are deeply in love with one another....

TriciaG and 14 more 29 hours 11 minutes

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Joseph Conrad - Nigger of the Narcissus

This is the story of a voyage of a merchant sailing ship from Bombay to England, set in the very late 19th century. “It was a bad winter off the Cape that year.” From Wikepedia: “The novel is seen as an allegory...

Tom Crawford 6 hours 21 minutes

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Wilkie Collins - Guilty River

After his father’s death Gerard Roylake returns from Germany to take up his inheritance at Trimley Deen. On one evening he meets his childhood friend, Cristel Toller. They fall in love, but there is a crux. A deaf...

Ernst Pattynama and 5 more 4 hours 28 minutes

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Mark Twain - Gilded Age, A Tale of Today

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. The term gilded age , commonly given to the era,...

TriciaG and 19 more 17 hours 8 minutes

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Henry James - Death of the Lion

This short novel is a black comedy about fame, manipulation, pretension, and surviving it all. The narrator, a reprehensible and seedy journalist, sets out to interview a minor author, and in his own quest for glory,...

Jacquerie 1 hour 41 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - Duke's Children

In the last of the six Palliser novels, the sudden death of his wife, Lady Glencora, leaves Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, finding himself in charge of his three children. The eldest, Lord Silverbridge, has...

Nicholas Clifford and 11 more 22 hours 42 minutes Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope

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P. G. Wodehouse - William Tell Told Again

This is the classic story of William Tell — Swiss patriot and great apple-shooter — as seen through the eyes of English humorist P.G. Wodehouse. No Swiss were (permanently) injured in the telling of this story;...

Mark F. Smith 1 hour 44 minutes

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Leo Tolstoy - Resurrection, Book 3

Resurrection is the last of Tolstoy's major fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institutionalized church. It was...

Phil Griffiths and 1 more 4 hours Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy

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Olive Schreiner - Story of an African Farm

The novel details the lives of three characters, first as children and then as adults — Waldo, Em and Lyndall — who live on a farm in the Karoo region of South Africa. The story is set in the middle- to late...

SallyMc 10 hours 26 minutes

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John Neihardt - Song of Hugh Glass

This poem tells a story that begins in 1823 — just after the Leavenworth campaign against the Arikara Indians — and follows an expedition of Major Andrew Henry during a series of arduous journeys over the...

Nathan 2 hours 21 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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