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Alexandre Dumas - Marguerite de Valois

A historical fiction novel set in Paris (1572) during Charles IX's reign and the French Wars of Religion. Marguerite de Valois, daughter of deceased Henry II, is the novel's protagonist set against the infamous...

John Van Stan 20 hours 34 minutes

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C. H. Robinson - Longhead: The Story of the First Fire

A fictionalized version of the self-discovery of primitive man, including: fire, cooking, defense and protection, architecture, community, communication, religion, government, and social interaction — Summary by Nick...

Nick Bulka 1 hour 44 minutes

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Amice MacDonell - Magna Carta

A one-act play which describes the setting and writing of the Magna Carta, including the famous line «now is justice bought and sold» in the Prologue. — Summary by Beth Thomas Narrator: Denny Sayers King...

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Sir Harry Johnston - Mrs. Warren's Daughter

Mrs. Warren's Daughter is a continuation, in novel form, of George Bernard Shaw's controversial play, Mrs. Warren's Profession. In the play, Vivie Warren, an emancipated young woman recently graduated from University,...

Jacquerie 13 hours 39 minutes

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - North and South (version 3)

North and South is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the North of England. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural south, Margaret Hale settles with her parents in Milton where she witnesses the...

MaryAnn 19 hours 3 minutes

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George Durston - Boy Scout Aviators

Follow the adventures of Harry Fleming, Dick Mercer, and Jack Young in this exciting Boy Scout adventure! Harry is an American Boy Scout separated from his country and hometown when his father has to go on a trip to...

Kangaroo 4 hours 57 minutes Saalfield Boy Scout Series

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John Ackworth - Doxie Dent

Following the short story collections, Clog Shop Chronicles and Beckside Lights, John Ackworth completed the adventures of clogger Jabez Clegg and his Beckside cronies with a novel. Jabez's niece, the young and...

Phil Benson 7 hours 26 minutes

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D. H. Lawrence - White Peacock

Lawrence’s first novel is set in Nethermere (his name for the real-life Eastwood in Nottinghamshire). The plot is narrated by Cyril Beardsall and focuses in particular on the relationship of his sister Lettie with...

Simon Evers 12 hours 48 minutes

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Sapper - Men, Women and Guns

World War I stories, as told through the eyes of someone who was there, but leavened with humour and an eye for the ridiculous side of human nature. This is a collection of McNeile's early short stories, drawing on...

Beth Thomas and 7 more 6 hours 52 minutes

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Deborah Alcock - Spanish Brothers

The daughter of a minister, Deborah Alcock wrote novels on a Christian theme. The Spanish Brothers is set in the sixteenth century and deals with Protestant martyrdom during the Spanish Inquisition. Follow the...

KeiPie and 6 more 12 hours 23 minutes

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Thomas Dixon, Jr. - Traitor

Dixon lived through Reconstruction, and believed it ranked with the French Revolution in brutality and criminal acts. The Traitor (1907), the final book in his trilogy which also includes The Leopard’s Spots (1902),...

Michele Fry 6 hours 45 minutes

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Nikolai Chernyshevsky - Vital Question, or, What is to be Done?

Despised by Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, What Is To Be Done? is a fascinating, sympathetic story of idealistic revolutionaries in mid-nineteenth century tsarist Russia; translator Nathan Haskell Dole affirms in his...

Expatriate 18 hours 45 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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