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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

613

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

611

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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History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great

General Fiction

566

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

502

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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Historical Fiction

532

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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Historical Fiction

606

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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496

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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Historical Fiction

488

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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Historical Fiction

487

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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Historical Fiction

473

Henry Handel Richardson - Australia Felix

The story of Richard Mahony, a doctor trained in Edinburgh who comes to Ballarat in the gold rush of the 1850s. At first he runs a shop but later he marries and returns to medical practice. His story is interwoven...

tabithat 14 hours 21 minutes

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General Fiction

477

Helen Hunt Jackson - Ramona

Ramona, a novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson (1884), is the story of a part-Scottish and part-Native American orphan girl growing up and getting married in Southern California, suffering racial discrimination and...

Elli and 6 more 15 hours 49 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

417

Lew Wallace - Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Ben-Hur is a story of two very different heroes. Judah Ben-Hur, a prince of Jerusalem, is involved in an accident to the Roman procurator which is taken to be intentional. He is seized and sent to the fleet as a...

Mark F. Smith 23 hours 22 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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