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Notwithstanding
Historical Fiction
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Mary Cholmondeley - Notwithstanding

The book starts with Annette Georges choosing between two fates: suicide and running away with a disreputable stranger. She is rescued by a kind woman who looks after her until she can go to live with her maiden aunts...
Simon Evers 8 hours 39 minutes
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Last Rebel
Action & Adventure Fiction
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Joseph A. Altsheler - Last Rebel

Arthur West has been taken as a prisoner of war by Colonel Hetherhill of the Confederate States of America, and imprisoned at Fort Defiance, where an oddly small number of soldiers are stationed. More odd than the...
DavidG 3 hours 56 minutes
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Inheritance
Culture & Heritage Fiction
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Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier - Inheritance

«As the noblest attribute of man, family pride had been cherished time immemorial by the noble race of Rossville. Deep and incurable, therefore, was the wound inflicted on all its members by the marriage of the...
Jim Locke 22 hours 45 minutes
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Fair Maid of Perth, Or, St. Valentine's Day
Historical Fiction
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Sir Walter Scott - Fair Maid of Perth, Or, St. Valentine's Day

Henry Gow has fallen in love with the Fair Maid of Perth, Catherine, the glovemaker's daughter. To make sure that he would be the first person she sees on Valentine's day, he walks to her house at the break of dawn,...
Rita Boutros and 3 more 20 hours 3 minutes
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Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 4, To California and Return
Travel Fiction
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Artemus Ward - Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 4, To California and Return

Charles Farrar Browne, a native of Maine, became famous as a writer and lecturer under the name of Artemus Ward. Like his friend Mark Twain, Browne worked as a type-setter in his youth and in 1858, began publishing a...
Delmar H Dolbier 2 hours 7 minutes
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With Moore at Corunna
Historical Fiction
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G. A. Henty - With Moore at Corunna

Terrence O’Conner, Son of an officer in the “Mayo Fusiliers,” joins as an ensign when the regiment is called out to Portugal to fight the French in the Peninsular War. Terrence quickly distinguishes himself in early...
Charles P. Sapp 12 hours 21 minutes
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Actress in High Life: An Episode in Winter Quarters
Historical Fiction
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Susan Petigru King-Bowen - Actress in High Life: An Episode in Winter Quarters

1812 is the year and Portugal the location for this adventure. The characters for the most part are British officers. Lord Strathern sends for his daughter Lady Mabel Stewart presently in Scotland to join him in Elvas...
Celine Major 9 hours 22 minutes
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Roots of the Mountains
Historical Fiction
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William Morris - Roots of the Mountains

The Roots of the Mountains was the second in a projected series of three historical novels set in a pre-medieval Germanic world (the third was not completed). It follows the themes of House of the Wolfings, which was...
Phil Benson 15 hours 5 minutes Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library
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Knight of the White Cross
Historical Fiction
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G. A. Henty - Knight of the White Cross

Adventure, pirates, a young orphan finds a place with a legendary order of knights. Fighting on sea and land to defend his people from barbaric slavers. Summary by Peter Strahm
pmstrahm 14 hours 33 minutes
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Linda Tressel
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Anthony Trollope - Linda Tressel

Linda Tressel lives a lonely life with her domineering aunt, Madame Staubach, in a large house in Nuremberg. Madame Staubach takes in the odious and much older Peter Steinmarc as a lodger and plans that Linda should...
Simon Evers 6 hours 40 minutes
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Dust Flower
Historical Fiction
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Basil King - Dust Flower

Rashleigh Allerton, a wealthy New Yorker, quarrels with his well-to-do fiancée Barbara and impetuously says that he will marry instead the first person he meets. The book follows the result of this absurd promise,...
Simon Evers 8 hours 58 minutes
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World’s Story Volume V: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal
Historical Fiction
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Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume V: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal

This is the fifth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art , edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature,...
Sonia and 24 more 18 hours 54 minutes World's Story
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Stolen Bacillus and other stories
Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells
Eight Keys to Eden
Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton
Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2)
Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake
Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916
Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916
Short Story Collection Vol. 081
Short Story Collection Vol. 081
Around the World with the Children
Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter
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