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Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (Dole translation)

Two love stories are set against the backdrop of high society in Tsarist Russia. Anna awakes from a loveless marriage to find herself drawn irresistibly to the dashing cavalry officer, Count Vronsky. Levin struggles...

MaryAnn 36 hours 54 minutes

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Sarah Orne Jewett - Gray Mills of Farley

As contemporary today as it was over a century ago, this relatively unsentimental tale of labor relations still packs a punch. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times 54 minutes

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William Dean Howells - Indian Summer

In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of the year, although the plot actually spans several seasons. The Indian...

Leonard Wilson 10 hours 42 minutes

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Louis Ulbach - Steel Hammer

A large inheritance greatly transforms the lives of three people: a good man, who would have inherited at least a part of the fortune if his uncle hadn't passed away before altering the will, his cousin, who inherits...

Delmar H Dolbier and 3 more 8 hours 52 minutes

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Fanny Burney - Wanderer

This is the fourth and final novel by Fanny Burney, the author of Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla. «Who is „Miss Ellis?“ Why did she board a ship from France to England at the beginning of the French revolution? Anyway,...

Roxanna Nazari and 6 more 36 hours 22 minutes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Mystery Of Cloomber

This novel is written by the author of, among other novels, the Stories of Sherlock Holmes. It is narrated by John Fothergill West, who tries to discover why the tenant of Cloomber Hall, General Heatherstone, is...

Delmar H Dolbier 5 hours 20 minutes

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Maria Edgeworth - Helen

Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in...

Terra Mendoza and 11 more 21 hours 9 minutes

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Alexandre Dumas - Ten Years Later

After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues! The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (French: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou...

Tora and 11 more 19 hours 47 minutes d'Artagnan Romances (in English translation)

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With Frederick The Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War

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G. A. Henty - With Frederick The Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War

Among the great wars of history there are few, if any, instances of so long and successfully sustained a struggle, against enormous odds, as that of the Seven Years' War, maintained by Prussia--then a small and...

Gary Olman 13 hours 3 minutes

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Cardinal Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - Fabiola or The Church of the Catacombs

This historical novel is set in Rome in the early 4th century AD, during the time of the cruel persecution of Christians under the Emperor Diocletian. The heroine of the book is Fabiola, a young pagan beauty from...

Maria Therese 13 hours 29 minutes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Uncle Bernac: A Memory of the Empire

Looking for a replacement to Sherlock Holmes after the author had killed him off in 1894, Doyle wrote this murder mystery in the dying years of the 19th century. Set in Napoleon's era, it involves a Frenchman...

Cate Barratt 4 hours 39 minutes

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Neil Munro - Doom Castle

Doom Castle is the story of young Count Victor's journey to Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion, searching for a traitor to the Jacobite cause as well as a mysterious man under the name of «Drimdarroch», whom he...

Crln Yldz Ksr and 1 more 11 hours 3 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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