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Thomas Hardy - Wessex Tales

Wessex Tales is a collection of six short stories written by Hardy in the 1880’s. If you’ve never read Hardy they’ll serve as a good introduction to his writing. Though not as comprehensive as his major works they do...

Tadhg 7 hours 32 minutes

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Mary Augusta Ward - Lady Rose's Daughter

«Julie Le Breton enchants almost everyone around her with her smart, charm, and excellent manners. She almost belongs to the English highest nobility, but just almost… Her parents, 2 aristocrats who ran away from...

ngocmai1196 and 12 more 13 hours 38 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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H. G. Wells - World Set Free (version 2)

Radioactive decay is a major theme in the novel The World Set Free, published in 1914. Wells explores what might happen if the rate of decay could be sped up. The book may have encouraged scientists to explore...

Jules Hawryluk and 1 more 8 hours 4 minutes

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Frances Little - Little Sister Snow

American author Fannie Caldwell, under pen name of Frances Little, tells the story of young Yuki San growing up in Japan circa early 1900s, and of her dreams of an American. (Introduction by Cheri Gardner)

Cheri Gardner 1 hour 45 minutes

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Fergus Hume - Silent House

A mystery about a «locked door» murder committed in a house that has a reputation for being haunted. In the first half of the book, the murderer appears to be easy to figure out. The second half of the book,...

Elena and 10 more 8 hours 7 minutes

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Anna Katharine Green - House of the Whispering Pines

The country club house The Whispering Pines was closed for the winter, but only one day after he locked the place personally, the narrator sees smoke come out of the chimney. He decides to investigate and enters the...

Crln Yldz Ksr 12 hours 55 minutes

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John Bell Bouton - Round the Block

In Round the Block (1864), John Bell Bouton, a newspaper editor who later became a travel writer, stirs together comedy and pathos to explore the schemes and dreams of the average and extraordinary people inhabiting...

Grant Hurlock 18 hours 7 minutes

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Samuel Hopkins Adams - Secret of Lonesome Cove

A body is found on the beach not far from a New England town one morning. Curiously, nobody recognizes the dead woman, and nobody in or near the town seems to be a suspect in a possible murder, therefore most of them...

Roger Melin 7 hours 33 minutes

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A. E. W. Mason - Running Water

Although A.E.W. Mason is best known for The Four Feathers, an adventure novel of 1902 set in Egypt and the Sudan (and filmed several times), he was a prolific and popular writer of the period. Running Water, published...

Nicholas Clifford 8 hours 37 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Laura Lee Hope - Outdoor Girls of Deepdale

The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale was the first book in a long-running series centering around four girls: Betty Nelson, Mollie Billette, Amy Stonington, and Grace Ford. The girls go on many exciting adventures and solve...

Elizabeth Wilcox and 7 more 4 hours 3 minutes

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Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College

Children's Fiction

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Jessie Graham Flower - Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College

The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around America. In The High School Girls Series, Grace attends Oakdale High School with...

ashleighjane 4 hours 44 minutes Grace Harlowe Series

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Alexandre Dumas - Black Tulip

The Black Tulip, written by Alexandre Dumas père and published in 1850, is a historical novel placed in the time of Tulipmania in the Netherlands. The novel begins with the 1672 politically motivated mob lynching of...

Gail Timmerman Vaughan 7 hours 34 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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