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Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors

A 1908 NaNoWriMo forerunner, told in twelve chapters, each with a different author. The basic plot was to show how an engagement or marriage would affect and be affected by an entire family. The project became...

Tom Lennon and 11 more 7 hours 32 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Off on a Comet

The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. Some forty people of various nations and ages are condemned to a two-year-long journey on the comet. They form...

Patrick Wells and 14 more 11 hours 11 minutes

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George Gissing - In the Year of Jubilee

The Jubilee marks the fiftieth year of the reign of Queen Victoria. Dickensian in its sweeping scope of London life, Jubilee depicts the harsh and disreputable conditions of lower-middle class life at the end of the...

skoval 15 hours

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Abraham Merritt - Moon Pool

Dr. David Throckmartin’s scientific expedition to the South Sea Islands discovers among ancient ruins a portal into Muria, an unknown underground world. After the disappearance of Throckmartin, his wife and two...

Mark Nelson 12 hours 3 minutes

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Best Russian Short Stories

In this collection of Russian stories, editor and compiler Thomas Seltzer selects from a range of the best examples of 19th and early 20th century Russian literature. As a survey of famous authors at the height of...

greatbasinrain and 13 more 10 hours 33 minutes

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Thomas Beer - Fair Rewards

«The Fair Rewards» by Thomas Beer... is a really distiguished novel. The writing is far above the average: it has style and sophistication and personality, intermingled with a truly vivid show of imagination. It even...

Greg W. 6 hours 39 minutes

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Rolf Boldrewood - Robbery Under Arms

A tale of cattle duffing, horse stealing and bushranging in the New South Wales outback with Captain Starlight. To quote the author «though presented in the guise of fiction, this chronicle of the Marston family...

Graeme Dunlop and 11 more 19 hours 47 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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James Oliver Curwood - Golden Snare

With but two years of service in the RNMP Philip Raine finds himself somewhat unwillingly on the trail of Bram Johnson, wanted for murder and a wild, untamed and savage man who commands a pack of wolves as his...

Roger Melin 6 hours 22 minutes

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Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (version 4)

Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's classic comic romance, in which the five Bennett sisters try to find that most elusive creature: a single man in possession of a large fortune. Sparks fly when sweet, pretty Jane...

Elizabeth Klett 11 hours 9 minutes

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Elizabeth Bonhôte - Bungay Castle: A Novel

Bungay Castle is a gothic novel by Elizabeth Bonhôte. It was first published in 1796 and follows the fortunes of the De Morney family at Bungay Castle in Suffolk. Two young members of the family, Roseline and Edwin,...

Patti Cunningham 9 hours 8 minutes

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Edith Wharton - Sanctuary

Kate Orme, shocked by the discovery of her fiance's complicity in a tragedy, and by society's willingness to overlook such transgressions, nevertheless marries him. Years later, her son faces a moral crisis similar to...

Jacquerie 3 hours 7 minutes

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Gambler

The Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than...

Jason Ingolfsland and 1 more 6 hours 1 minute

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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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