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Baroness Emma Orczy - Elusive Pimpernel

First Published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Karen Savage 7 hours 30 minutes

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Gene Stratton-Porter - Freckles

Freckles is a young man who has been raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage. His one dream is to find a job, a place to belong and people who accept him despite his youth and the disability of having only one...

Mary Anderson and 6 more 8 hours 43 minutes

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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms

In 1894, Oscar Wilde (1854 — 1900) published two collections of aphorisms: A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated , in the Saturday Review newspaper, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the...

Carl Manchester 11 minutes

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Henry James - Wings of the Dove

«The Wings of the Dove,» published in 1902, represents to my memory a very old--if I shouldn't perhaps rather say a very young--motive; I can scarce remember the time when the situation on which this long-drawn...

Aaron Elliott and 12 more 20 hours 11 minutes

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Louis Hémon - Maria Chapdelaine

Maria Chapdelaine is one of the most famous French Canadian novels. It is the love story of Maria Chapdelaine, daughter of a peasant family in the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region of Quebec, in the 1900s. It is often seen...

Kim S and 8 more 5 hours 7 minutes

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Nathaniel Hawthorne - House of the Seven Gables (Version 2)

The House of the Seven Gables is a gloomy New England mansion, haunted from its foundation by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft, and sudden death. The current resident, the dignified but desperately poor...

Nicodemus and 1 more 10 hours 58 minutes

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E. M. Forster - Where Angels Fear to Tread

On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy and a handsome Italian much younger than herself, and decides to stay....

Julie Pandya 4 hours 43 minutes

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Louisa May Alcott - Jo's Boys

Jo's Boys is the third book in the Little Women trilogy by Louisa May Alcott, published in 1886. In it, Jo's «children», now grown, are caught up in real world troubles. All three books — although fiction — are highly...

Megan Kunkel and 7 more 9 hours 36 minutes

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Edith Wharton - Custom of the Country

Edith Wharton was a novelist of manners of late 19th Century New York «Society», who spent much of her life in France. In this novel she tells the story of Undine Sprague, the thrice- (or more) married, upwardly...

Isosceles and 10 more 14 hours 59 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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E. Nesbit - Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

<p/>Edith Nesbit, the author of Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, felt passionately that young children should enjoy Shakespeare's great works. She set about to retell his plays in a language that children...

Laura Caldwell and 9 more 5 hours 2 minutes

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Thomas Peckett Prest - Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 1

This is volume 1 of 3. Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampyre is a forerunner to vampire stories such as Dracula , which it...

Annika Feilbach and 21 more 21 hours 6 minutes

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W. E. B. Du Bois - Quest of the Silver Fleece

The Quest of the Silver Fleece is a story of romance, race, economics and politics set around the 1900s. Here, a traditionally educated boy and an unschooled “swamp girl” each begin a journey toward love, ambition...

Richard Kilmer and 1 more 12 hours 15 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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