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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 14: 1812

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story...

Ernst Pattynama and 7 more 2 hours 8 minutes War and Peace (Maude Translation Books 1-17)

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Edgar Rice Burroughs - Outlaw of Torn

The story is set in 13th century England and concerns the fictitious outlaw Norman of Torn, who purportedly harried the country during the power struggle between King Henry III and Simon de Montfort. Norman is the...

Susan Umpleby and 1 more 6 hours 59 minutes

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Sir Walter Scott - Kenilworth

An Elizabethan era historical novel by Scotland's master of fiction, Sir Walter Scott. With a cast of historical and created characters, including the Queen herself, Scott presents the sad history and tragic...

skoval 20 hours 59 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

Clara Reeve - Old English Baron

The story follows the adventures of Sir Philip Harclay, who returns to medieval England to find that the castle seat and estate of his friend Lord Lovel have been usurped. A series of revelations, horrors and...

MaryAnn 5 hours 21 minutes

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General Fiction

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Anthony Trollope - Prime Minister

The Prime Minister is the fifth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. With Phineas' difficulties resolved, Trollope introduces new characters. A respectable young girl forsakes the man her family had always...

Nicholas Clifford and 9 more 28 hours 28 minutes Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope

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General Fiction

Henry Fielding - History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great

This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph Andrews. It is a satire of Walpole that draws a parallel between Walpole and...

Denny Sayers 10 hours 17 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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G. A. Henty - True to the Old Flag

This book tells the story of the American war of Independence from the side of the British. The old flag mentioned in the title is the flag of England. This is a book for young readers, but — as a good book should be...

Chela and 6 more 10 hours 49 minutes

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Luís Vaz de Camões - Lusiads

The Lusiads (Os Lusíadas) is a Portuguese epic poem, written in the 16th century by Luis Vaz de Camões. The poem tells the tale of the Portuguese discoveries in the 15th and 16th centuries, specially the voyage to...

Leni 9 hours 46 minutes

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W. Somerset Maugham - Moon and Sixpence

This Maugham novel is based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told by the narrator as he gradually comes to know the main character Charles Strickland, a middle aged stock broker. We follow...

Termin Dyan 7 hours 51 minutes

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Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, Book 2

In Part 2, Kitty’s health deteriorates from regret and heartbreak, while Levin retreats to his country estate. Anna and Vronsky continue to pursue each other and become the talk of polite society, to the chagrin of...

willem and 10 more 5 hours 39 minutes Anna Karenina (Garnett English Translation)

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Howard Pyle - Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

Swashbuckling tales of legendary pirates, buccaneers, and marooners, terrors of the Spanish Main.(Summary by Epistomolus)

Epistomolus and 4 more 8 hours 12 minutes

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 13: 1812

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir”) is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of...

Ernst Pattynama and 6 more 2 hours 14 minutes War and Peace (Maude Translation Books 1-17)

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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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