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In the Midst of Life; Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

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Ambrose Bierce - In the Midst of Life; Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

These stories detail the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. This is the 1909 edition. The 1909 edition omits six stories from the original 1891 edition; these six stories are added to this...

David Wales 11 hours 11 minutes

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General Fiction

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Mark Twain - American Claimant

The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The story focuses on the class differences and expectations of monarchic, hierarchical Britain and the upstart, «all men are created...

John Greenman 6 hours 42 minutes

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General Fiction

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Ford Madox Ford - Fifth Queen

The Fifth Queen trilogy is a series of connected historical novels by English novelist Ford Madox Ford. It consists of three novels, The Fifth Queen; And How She Came to Court (1906), Privy Seal (1907) and The Fifth...

Elizabeth Klett 7 hours 35 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Stewart Edward White - Blazed Trail

Stewart Edward White wrote fiction and non-fiction about adventure and travel, with an emphasis on natural history and outdoor living. White's books were popular at a time when America was losing its vanishing...

Tom Weiss 11 hours 27 minutes

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Ambrose Bierce - Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

A tragic but very captivating tale of a monk in the 17th century.

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 45 minutes

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Charles Major - When Knighthood Was in Flower

Set during the Tudor period of English history, When Knighthood Was in Flower tells the tribulations of Mary Tudor, a younger sister of Henry VIII of England who has fallen in love with a commoner. However, for...

Kara Shallenberg and 14 more 9 hours 2 minutes

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Katharine S. Prichard - Pioneers

The Pioneers is set against the background of pioneering life in the Gippsland region of Victoria in pre-Federation Australia. Mary and Donald Cameron are free-settlers who make a home in the wilderness and grow a...

Kirsty Leishman 8 hours 18 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Alexandre Dumas - Count of Monte Cristo (version 2)

The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and the Levant during the historical events of 1815–1838 (from just before the Hundred Days through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France). The...

Delmar H Dolbier and 38 more 49 hours 49 minutes

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General Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Doctor's Wife

This is one of the Victorian “Sensationist” Mary Elizabeth Braddon's many novels (best known among them: “Lady Audley’s Secret”). It is extremely well written, fluid, humorous and, in places, self-mocking: one of the...

Kirsten Wever 18 hours

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Joseph A. Altsheler - Guns of Bull Run

The first volume in the Civil War series, following the adventures of Harry Kenton, who leaves his home in Kentucky. He travels through dangerous territory to South Carolina on a secret mission on the eve of the Civil...

Michael Packard and 6 more 9 hours 35 minutes The Civil War Series

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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G. A. Henty - With Clive in India

With Clive in India gives a vivid picture of the wonderful events of the ten years, which at their commencement saw Madras in the hands of the French--Calcutta at the mercy of the Nabob of Bengal--and English...

Gary Olman 13 hours 32 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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William Harrison Ainsworth - Windsor Castle, Book 1

Book 1 — Anne Boleyn. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as his wife. During Henry's pursuit of Boleyn, the novel describes other...

Amy Gramour and 3 more 3 hours 13 minutes Windsor Castle

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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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