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Frances Hodgson Burnett - His Grace of Osmonde

His Grace of Osmonde, being the portions of that nobleman's life omitted in the relation of his Lady's story presented to the world of fashion under the title of 'A Lady of Quality'(Summary by Frances Hodgson Burnett)

Linda Andrus 12 hours 23 minutes

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Alice Turner Curtis - Little Maid of Province Town

Plucky eight year old Anne Nelson, living in Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod, is determined to bring the Revolutionary War to an end so that she can be reunited with her soldier father. Will she succeed in...

Arielle Lipshaw 3 hours 33 minutes

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Joseph A. Altsheler - Scouts of Stonewall

In this third book of Joseph Altsheler's Civil War series, Harry Kenton, a lieutenant in the Southern Army, is on scout patrol in the Shenandoah Valley. He has attracted the notice of the great General Stonewall...

Lucretia B. and 6 more 9 hours 14 minutes The Civil War Series

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Bolesław Prus - Pharaoh and the Priest

The Pharaoh and the Priest (Polish: Faraon) is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. It was the sole historical novel by an author who had earlier disapproved of historical novels on the...

Piotr Nater and 13 more 26 hours 23 minutes

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Hagar's Daughter. A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice

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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins - Hagar's Daughter. A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice

Hagar's Daughter was first published serially in «The Colored American Magazine» in 1901-1902 by Pauline E. Hopkins, a prominent African-American novelist, journalist, historian, and playwright. The book was described...

Novella Serena and 4 more 8 hours 38 minutes

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William Carleton - Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine

A story about the Irish, just before the onset of the famine of 1847, with all the color and dialogue of a man who lived it. (Summary by JCarson)

James E. Carson 16 hours 22 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - Miss Mackenzie

The thirty-five year-old (hence utterly over-the-hill) Miss Margaret Mackenzie, having devoted her life to others, suddenly finds herself with no one to care for, and in possession of a moderate fortune. Having money,...

Kirsten Wever 15 hours 10 minutes

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Gustave Flaubert - Salammbô

After completing the famous Mme Bovary , Flaubert put all his efforts into researching the Punic Wars and completed the lesser known Salammbô . In this volume, Flaubert describes in detail the Mercenary Revolt and...

Crln Yldz Ksr 14 hours 53 minutes

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Israel Zangwill - Children of the Ghetto

In this 1892 novel of London's Jewish East End, Israel Zangwill sets the apparently irrational and decidedly indecorous religious practices of transplanted eastern European Jews against the forces of assimilation....

Adrian Praetzellis 15 hours 17 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt - Marrow of Tradition

In The Marrow of Tradition , Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the raw nerves and internal machinery of racism in the post-Reconstruction-era...

James K. White 9 hours 52 minutes

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Mary Hastings Bradley - Favor of Kings

«Never have bright romance and black scandal been more attached to the name of lovely woman,» writes a quaint and susceptible chronicler, " than to that of fair Anne Boleyn." Certainly no girl ever flashed...

Verity Kendall and 6 more 11 hours 42 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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H. Rider Haggard - Brethren

Set in the days of the Crusaders, this books tells of a young maiden named Rosamund, and her twin cousins. Godwin is the grey eyed thoughtful man, and Wulf is the blue eyed warrior. They are both knights of England...

Abigail Rasmussen 14 hours 23 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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